Level: A2
Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading
Description: Provides table with most common prefixes and suffixes, etymology (Greek or Latin roots) and examples. List begins with the twenty prefixes used most frequently in academic texts, ranked by Carroll et al. (1971).
Can-Do: Identifying cues and inferring meaning.
Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.