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3 November 2006: Suffixes

What news from English in Chester this Friday? Well, our website won the England's Northwest Tourism Website of the Year 2006 award so congratulations to Nick and all of you who starred in the video clip. The next event takes place in London in April next year.

Mathew has gone to Prague for six weeks to take past in a teaching course, no doubt those of you in that city will be hearing from him as I am sure he has all your phone numbers. He is busy learning Czech and is now able to order a large beer. Andy will be running his Wednesday evenings on his own again and we have a snooker table up in room 4. The clocks went back on Saturday/Sunday so it is getting darker earlier.

It was Halloween this Tuesday and bonfire night on the 5th November which is when the people in England celebrate the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. This is to remember an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London and kill the English king. They weren't successful but ever since that time we have celebrated on the night of the 5th with bonfires in our gardens and fireworks. There are also big public displays in places like the race course and all the main parks.

We looked at prefixes in September so I thought it might be a good idea to see what we can do with suffixes this time.

Exercise 1
Complete the root word with the correct suffix. You can choose from "ous", "able", "ful" or y. Sometimes you may have to add or remove a letter for the correct spelling.
danger  
comfort  
fam  
sun  
pain  
wind  
enjoy  
suit  
help  
use  
Exercise 2
Now try to fill in the blanks with a suitable word from those above.
It can be    to cross the train line so be very careful.
I really like this sofa. It's extremely   .
Beckham is probably one of the most    football players in Britain.
We have decided to have our lessons in the garden as it was a lovely    day.
John's toothache was quite    and he had to go to the dentist.
Let's go sailing! It's a perfect day for it, the sun is shining and it's not too   .
This is a really    book. I'm sure you will like it too.
This film really isn't very    for children under 10. There is far too much violence.
The shop assistant was so    that I'll go there again. He gave me a lot of information.
It's really    to be able to speak another language.

The word this week is magnitude. It's a noun which means "of great importance". "The world faces a crisis of considerable magnitude in relation to global warming."

Have a good fortnight,
Best wishes from Harriet and everyone at English in Chester


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