VOCABULARY

•DIY
•Brainstorm as many words as you can
think of that relate to the topic.
•You have one minute.
 RELATIONS
• a wooden board; the rubber feet; plastic guttering
• They are specific types of a general class of things (materials).

• the vast majority of victims; at most large DIY centres

• SYNONYMS
• bear in mind 50 people die; consider these ten points
• SYNONYMS
• on a firm, level, dry, surface; On soft earth
• ANTONYMS
• bear in mind; bare feet
• HOMOPHONES
• “If one of your nagging DIY jobs ... ‘
• How does this differ from
• 'If one of your persistent home improvement
responsibilities ... '?
 WORD FORMATION
• new words can be formed by
• combining old ones - a process called 'compounding’
• adding prefixes and suffixes (such as pre- or -less) - a process called 'affixation’
• Some 'words' in fact comprise more than one word: they take the form of multi-word units
(also called 'chunks’)

• Conversion changes one part of speech into another

 IDENTIFY THE AFFIX

• available • able
• equipment • ment
• guttering • ing
• resecure • re
• untie • un
• user • er
 ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

• opposition to a breaking away from an established

church.
• specifically refers to people who opposed withdrawing
support of the Anglican Church of England during the
1800s

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SLANG