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English 12 – Unit 5 – Word study
GAME: LUCKY NUMBERS
PRESENTATION
Smoking is harmful
to our health
It is dangerous
The baby is lovely
Adjectives formed from nouns by adding suffixes
Harmful
Dangerous
lovely
* Form:
NOUN
SUFFIX
ADJECTIVE

+
-ful
harmful, useful, delightful, successful, hopeful,
-less
childless, odourless
-ly
manly, brotherly, worldly, hourly, yearly, daily
-like
childlike , godlike, statesmanlike, lifelike
-y
dusty, snowy, rainy, sandy, dirty, healthy
-ish
foolish, selfish, childish
-al
magical, agricultural,
industrial, natural
famous, dangerous
-ous
PRACTICE
Activity 1: Choose the most suitable word or phrase
1. The suffix of “child” is .................
a. –y b. –ful c. –less d. -al
2. The suffix of “success” is .............
a. –ful b. –ness c. –ment d. –less
3. Coal, oil, and forests are the most important ............. resources.
a. Industrial b. agricultural c. natural d. national
4. Water is colourless and .............
a. careless b. hopeless c. useless d. odourless
5. We can form a negative adjective by adding the suffix ............. to the noun “harm”.
a. –ful b. –less c. –ly d. –al
Activity 2:
Complete the following sentences with the proper adjectives corresponding to the nouns from the list:
nature - day – health – care – harm - success
Model: The Lao Dong is published seven days a week. It is a ................... newspaper.
1. Smoke from factories is ...................... .
2. Lan and her brother passed the examination last year. They were ........................ candidates.
3. Clean air provides us with a ....................... supply of oxygen.
4. Carbon dioxide occurs in the air in ........................ form.
5. You must be very ........................ when you drive in wet weather
daily
harmful
successful
healthy
natural
careful
PRODUCTION
Adjectives formed from nouns by adding suffixes
Using Adjectives formed from nouns by adding suffixes to make your own story from the film

Invent a story
Adjectives formed from nouns by adding suffixes
Rewrite the story and give it a title
Prepare further practice, page 75