Teacher information
Unit 15
Unit focus This unit focuses on long vowels.
Teaching points • Discuss how the silent e on the end of each word makes the vowel sound long: a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e. • Discuss any difficult parts of words. • Sort the list words according to the graphemes and brainstorm other words to add to each list.
List words Word building
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cushion fashion description imagination vaccination pension tension extension permission discussion social official
cushions fashions, fashionable, n fashionably, n fashionability, fashionableness descriptions, describe, describes, n described, n describing, n describable, descriptive imagine, imagines, n imagined, n imagining, n imaginable, n imaginary, n imaginative vaccinations, vaccinationist, vaccine, vaccines, vaccinate, n vaccinated, n vaccinating, n vaccinator pensions, pensionable, pensionary, l pensionaries, pensioner tensions, tensional, tensionless, tense, tenses, n tensed, n tensing, tensely, tenseness extensions, extensional, extensionally, extend, extends, extended, extending permit, permits, u permitted, u permitting, u permissive, u permissable discussions, discuss, discusses, discussed, discussing, discusser, discussible/discussable socials, socially, socialness, sociable, socialableness, n sociably, socialise, n socialisation officially, officialdom, officialese, officialise, officialises, n officialised, n officialising
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anticipates, n anticipated, n anticipating, n anticipation, n anticipatable, n anticipative exaggerates, n exaggerated, n exaggerating, n exaggeration, n exaggerative cooperates, n cooperated, n cooperating, n cooperation, n cooperative, cooperatively hibernates, n hibernated, n hibernating, n hibernation concretes, n concreted, n concreting, concreteness, concretely, n concretive, n concretion gangrenes, n gangrened, n gangrenous obsoletely, obsoleteness, obsolescent, obsolescence, obsolescently precedes, n preceded, n preceding, n precedence, s precedency, n precedent, precedential n ozonic, n ozoniferous, n ozonise, ozonises, n ozonised, n ozonising, n ozonisation chromes, n chromed, n chroming, n chromium, n chromic decomposes, n decomposed, n decomposing, n decomposition, n decomposable n glucoside, n glucosidal, n glucosin, n glucosidase, glucoprotein, glucagon advertises, n advertised, n advertising, advertisement, n advertiser, advertorial juveniles, juvenilely, juvenileness, juvenility, l juvenilities, n juvenilia apologises, n apologised, n apologising, apology, l appologies, apologetic appetites, appetiser, appetisers, n appetising, appetisingly, n appetitive, appetence produces, n produced, n producing, n producer, n producible, product, production abuses, n abused, n abusing, n abuser, abusers, n abusive, abusively, abusiveness solitary, l solitaries, Q solitarily, Q solitariness, solitaire magnitudes
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anticipate exaggerate cooperate hibernate concrete gangrene obsolete precede ozone chrome decompose glucose advertise juvenile apologise appetite produce abuse solitude magnitude
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(Taken from Unit 15, Book F.)
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Rule: When adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to most words ending with e, the e is dropped before adding the suffix. Rule: When adding y to a word ending with e, drop the e before adding y. l Rule: To make the plural of words ending with y after a consonant, change the y to i and add es. Q Rule: The y at the end of base words changes to i when a suffix is added. u Rule: Double the consonant to keep the preceding vowel sound short. n
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