Prefixes, suffixes and useful word families | 45-minute lesson

Students may recognise a word and still choose the wrong form. Word Lab helps them ask three practical questions: What job does this word do? What meaning does the sentence need? Is the spelling correct?

This clear, varied Lower B2 lesson introduces common, useful derivatives through word families and meaningful contexts. Learners move from noticing forms to building words, choosing between plausible alternatives and using new forms in their own short announcement.

What's included?

• Six-page student lesson with a word-class map and a worked example.

• A suffix toolkit covering nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs.

• Ten common prefixes, including negative prefixes, re-, mis-, over- and under-.

• Spelling changes, special cases and six useful word families.

• 36 short practice items: a four-item starter, eight family-building prompts, 12 multiple-choice questions, an eight-gap text and four spelling corrections.

• An original B2 First-style word-formation text about a teen repair event.

• A short 35-50-word announcement task to transfer learning into writing.

• A separate two-page teacher guide with answers, explanations, a model response, lesson timings and support suggestions.

Designed for

Lower B2 teenagers, especially Greek-speaking learners. Brief Greek support clarifies key grammatical terms and prefix meanings. The word families support general B2 vocabulary development; the eight-gap text practises the B2 First word-formation format.

Why this lesson?

Students learn to connect grammar, meaning and spelling rather than adding endings at random. Positive and negative forms, people nouns, plural forms and adjective/adverb contrasts appear in varied practice. Reference pages can be reused for later revision.

Duration: approximately 40-45 minutes; allow longer if the class needs more modelling.
Format: 6-page A4 student PDF + 2-page separate teacher PDF.
Design: clear tables, readable type, bold answer options and light accents suitable for printing.

This is an independently created resource with original practice. It is not an official exam paper or a complete exam vocabulary syllabus.