ELT Lesson Planning For Teaching English PDF 2022

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Prefix, suffix and free/bound morpheme in English morphology: ELT lesson plan
Lesson Plan.
Linguistic Aspect: Morphology
Focus Area: Morphemic Analysis – Understanding affixation, free and bound morphemes in
English.
Duration: 45 minutes.
Target audience: ELT/FLT students.
Resources: List of Prefixes and Suffixes in English.
The aims of the task: To help the students understand affixation in morphemic analysis,
especially why and how different prefixes and suffixes are used in English words during
communication to provide a context specific meaning. The task focuses primarily on teaching
prefixes and suffixes to the students and is divided into the following steps:
Step Duration Description Action
1. 10 minutes The students are provided with a
short sample text where words like
impossible, unstable, illogical,
irrelevant, friendship, boyhood,
friendly, accidental etc. are
provided. The sample text can be
tailored by the teacher to include
context specific words.
The students read the
passage, underline the
words that they think have
an affixation and state their
meaning in turns.
2. 5 minutes The teacher explains the difference
between free morpheme and bound
morpheme. This is done by
The students note the words
they have highlighted from
the passage. Afterwards

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explaining that free morphemes can
exist independently (e.g. round and
table in ‘roundtable’) but bound
morphemes need to attach
themselves to a free morpheme in
order to exist (e.g. un in ‘unhappy’
can only exist when attached with
‘happy’).
Afterwards, the teacher asks the
students to separate the root word
from the bound/free morpheme,
from the words they have
identified.
they attempt to separate the
root word from the
free/bound morpheme
(affix) as follows:
Accidental = accident + al
Friendly = friend + ly
3. 20 minutes The teacher introduces the concept
of affixation to the class.
“Affixes are morphemes that are
added to root words to add a
secondary meaning to the word,
often also changing the word class.
For instance, if the affix ‘un’ is
added to the root word ‘conscious’,
the word ‘unconscious’ results.
Therefore the addition of ‘un’ affix
has changed the meaning of the
word to its opposite. Similarly, the
word ‘head’ is a noun. However,
adding the affix ‘be’ before the
word results in a verb ‘behead’
meaning to chop someone’s head
The students take detailed
notes of the process of
affixation. They understand
the differences between
prefix and suffix.
The students then separate
the identified affixes from
the passage into prefix and
suffix.