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5591 Suffixes
5591 Suffixes
Week: ………………...
Date: ………………, 2024
Class: SS 2 A, B, C, D, E Period: ………...
Time: ……………………
Duration: …………..
Subject: English Language
Unit topic: Structure
Lesson topic: Suffixes (-able, age, arian, cide, ify, ify)
Specific (Behavioural) Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
Instructional resource: a chart showing affixation and its subdivision into prefix and suffice, and
examples.
LESSON PRESENTATION
Teacher asks students on what they understand about the day’s lesson topic.
i. What is a suffix?
ii. Differentiate between suffix and prefix.
iii. List two examples of suffix.
iv. How can we use prefixes to extend the meaning of a word?
Students’ activities: students respond to the questions asked based on their knowledge of the
topic.
Step 2: EXPLORATION.
Teacher’s activities: Teachers explains what suffix is, differentiates between prefix and suffice
and states the importance of suffix
Students’ activities: the students listen and repeat after teacher loudly.
Step 3: DISCUSSION.
Teacher’s activities: the teacher guides the students to identify some suffixes, the meanings,
and usage in sentences.
Teacher’s activities: the teacher engages students in a class activity to test their understanding
of the day’s lesson topic:
Class activity:
Underline the suffix in the following words and make a sentence with them: (a) inhabitant (b)
remittance (c) laughter (d) fruition (e) sailor (f) purity (g) falsehood (h)touchable (i) active.
Students’ activities: students carry out the class activity in their note books.
Step 5: EVALUATION.
ASSIGNMENT: students are to generate one word each that can be formed from the following
suffixes (a) -fy (b) -ment (c) -dom (d) -less (e) –ness (f) – fic (g) – full (h) – ology (i) –ee (j) – ous.
REFERENCE MATERIALS
F. Ademola-Adeoye etal(2012). New Concept English for Senior Secondary Schools, Book 2,
Learn Africa Plc, Lagos. Pages 202-203.
Dele Ashade, (2012). A –One English, A complete SSCE/GCE Text. Ashdell Inv. Ltd, Lagos.