WORD

FORMATION
 AFFIXATION
PREFIX + WORD WORD + SUFFIX
• UN+ natural • act+ION
• drink+ABLE
• ANTI+capitalist • cloud+Y
• IM+polite • …

• IL+legal
• MIS+understand PREFIX + WORD + SUFFIX
• ….
UN+rel(y)i+ABLE
UN+rel(y)i+ABL(E)+ ITY
 COMPOUNDING
DOWNPOUR
LADYBUG
 ONOMATOPOEIA
She’s sloshing
through the water It´s cracked.

Splashing around in the water

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• SPANGLISH / JAPLISH

• BREAKFAST + LUNCH =
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• SPANGLISH / JAPLISH
• BREAKFAST + LUNCH = BRUNCH

• Oxford + Cambridge =
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• SPANGLISH / JAPLISH
• BREAKFAST + LUNCH = BRUNCH

• Oxford + Cambridge =

OXBRIDGE
 FUNCTIONAL CHANGE
• MUSHROOM – a NOUN

• a sleepy capital of a few hundred thousand people has mushroomed into a

crowded city of 2 million  a VERB
 ACRONYMS
ASAP
As Soon As Possible

UN
United Nations POW
Prisoner of War
ACRONYMS
ASAP

POW
WORK IN GROUPS OF 4
FIND AS MANY WORDS AS YOU CAN FOR EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES

AFFIXATION
COMPOUNDING
ONOMATOPOEIA
BLENDING
FUNCTIONAL CHANGE
ACRONYMS
You have 5 MINUTES.

Well, make sure the words exist…