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    Theme: Structure

    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:

    i. Briefly explain what suffix is.


    ii. Differentiate between prefix and suffix.
    iii. List at least five suffixes and state their meaning.
    iv. Use suffixes to form words and use them in sentences.

    Instructional resource: a chart showing affixation and its subdivision into prefix and suffice, and
    examples.

    LESSON PRESENTATION

    Step 1: IDENTIFICATION OF PRIOR IDEAS.

    Teacher asks students on what they understand about the day’s lesson topic.

    Mode: a couple of persons.

    Teacher’s activities: teacher asks students the following questions:

    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.

    Mode: entire class.

    Teacher’s activities: Teachers explains what suffix is, differentiates between prefix and suffice
    and states the importance of suffix

    S/no Prefix Root Suffice New word


    1 Mis- Inform -ation Misinformation
    2 Un- Happy -ness Unhappiness
    3 Multi- Purpose multipurpose
    From the above examples, we can define a prefix, suffice and root as follows:
    ● A prefix is a group of letters or word parts that can be added to a root at the beginning
    to make a new word with a different meaning.
    ● A suffice is a group of letters that can be added to the end of a root to form a new word.
    ● A root word is a word you can change into a new word by adding a prefix (at the
    beginning) and /or a suffix (at the end).

    Students’ activities: the students listen and repeat after teacher loudly.

    Step 3: DISCUSSION.

    Mode: entire class.

    Teacher’s activities: the teacher guides the students to identify some suffixes, the meanings,
    and usage in sentences.

    S/No Suffix Meaning Examples Usage in sentence


    1 -able Able, likely Laughable, washable, This is not a laughable matter.
    sociable
    2 -ance State of Existence, repentance, You need repentance.
    conveyance
    3 -age Act of Bondage, wastage, drainage Don’t be a wastage to your
    generation.
    4 -ation State Organization, specialization Handle your area of specialization.
    5 -ant One who assists Assistant, servant, aspirant Ashiat is the assistant class captain
    6 -en Made of Loosen, deaden, tighten Don’t try to deaden the issue.
    7 -ese A native of Lebanese, Japanese, Chinese He is a Chinese.
    8 -ette A small of Novelette, cigarette, Stop smoking cigarette.
    kitchenette
    9 -full Full of Mouthful, spoonful, careful Be careful with your life.
    10 -hood Order/condition Brotherhood, manhood, Respect your womanhood.
    motherhood
    11 -fy Make Deify, personify, simplify Simplify the problem and solve it.
    12 -ic Nature of Poetic, Arabic, politics Your speech is poetic.
    13 -ish Origin, nature Boyish, childish, girlish Stop being childish.
    14 -ine Belonging to Divine, canine, feminine This is a divine intervention.
    15 -ity State of Sanity, brutality, purity To see God, purity is demanded.
    16 -less Without Careless, motherless, Don’t be careless.
    harmless
    17 -ise, ize Make Specailise, sympathise, I sympathise with you.
    dramatise
    18 -ive Causing Active, causative, conclusion Be active in class.
    Step 4: APPLICATION.

    Mode: entire students.

    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.

    Mode: a couple of students.

    Teacher’s activities: the teacher asks students the following questions:

    i. Briefly explain what suffix is.


    ii. Differentiate between prefix and suffix.
    iii. List at least five suffixes and state their meaning.
    iv. Use a suffix to form a word and use it in a sentence.

    Students’ activities: the students respond to the questions asked.

    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.

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