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Prefixes and suffixes for students who need to understand medical terminology.  

CEFR Activity:

  Reception / Reading Reception / Listening Production / Speaking Production / Writing  

CEFR Can-Do:

Orthographic control

can write with reasonable phonetic accuracy (but not necessarily fully standard spelling) short words that are in his/her oral vocabulary.

Can identify unfamiliar words from the context on topics related to his/her field and interests.

Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduce sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.

National Framework of EFL for Higher Education in Israel: Upper Intermediate level    

ERASMUS competence: Reading Comprehension; Listening Comprehension; Vocabulary  

 Educational value of this material: Prefixes and suffixes function as "cues" to meaning – knowing the most commonly used prefixes and suffixes can help learners to extrapolate meaning of unfamiliar words.

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