VOCABULARY LEVEL 1 – Package 6

Learning Outcomes

By the end of VOCABULARY LEVEL 1 you should be able to
✔ study vocabulary independently
✔ use different strategies to expand and record vocabulary

Introduction to Independent Learning

Independent learning gives you more choice about what, when and how fast to study. It also prepares you to learn after complete full time education.

In order to study independently you need to be able to set your own aims, choose how you want to study and reflect on the usefulness of studying that you do and on your overall progress.

Since you have chosen to study VOCABULARY LEVEL 1, we can assume that you want to learn more about how to expand and remember words more effectively. The online activities are designed to help you to develop and build the bank of words and expressions that you have at your disposal.

To begin with, there is a vocabulary quiz which will give you some idea of where you strengths and weaknesses lie.

Activity 1 Prefixes with negative meanings Activity 2 Rating Form

Package 6 - Antonyms

Antonyms

Learning outcomes

By the end of this unit, you should be able to

✔ identify and use a range of synonyms and antonyms.

Knowing the antonym(s) of a word helps you understand and remember the word itself. In certain cases, the meaning of the word is specified by its antonym.

Activity 1

Prefixes with negative meanings

After discussing roots and affixes earlier, you know that prefixes are often used to give words a negative meaning. The opposite of convenient, for example, is inconvenient, the opposite of agree is disagree and the opposite of lock is unlock. Unfortunately, there is no easy way of knowing which prefix a word will employ to form its opposite. When you learn a new word, note down whether it has an opposite formed with a prefix and, if so, what it is. Note, however, that the words formed in this way are not always exact opposites and may have a slightly different meaning.

The following is a list of prefixes which are useful in helping you to understand and record words.

Prefixes	Meaning	Examples
a	not, without	amoral atypically
anti	against, opposed to	anti-war antisocial antibiotic
mal	bad, badly	malnutrition maltreat malfunction
counter	against	counteract countercurrent counteragent
pseudo	false	pseudo-scientific pseudo-intellectual
in im il ir	not	inefficient ineffective inconsistent impossible immature impatient illegal illegible illiterate irregular irresponsible irreversible
de	to remove, to make less	decentralise demotivate demoralise
mis	bad, badly	misbehave miscalculation misunderstand
non	not	nonsense nonstick nonsmoker
un	not	unfair undress unblock
under	too little	undercooked understated

Activity 2

Complete the sentences by dragging the words below and dropping them in the correct gap in the sentences.

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