Academic Word List- vocabulary with negative prefixes
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Negative prefixes before AWL vocabulary for EAP classes
Lesson Plan Content:
Academic Word List vocabulary with negative prefixes
Find the words below which have negative prefixes but don’t have negative meanings.
abnormal deregulation/ deregulate
disproportionate illegal
illiberal illogical
immature/ immaturity imprecise/ imprecision
inaccessible inaccurate
inadaptable inadequate
inappropriate incapable
incoherent incompatible/ incompatibility
inconsistency/ inconsistent indemonstrable
indiscrete/ indiscretion inflexible/ inflexibility
insecurity insignificant
instability insufficient
invalid/ invalidity irrational
irrelevant/ irrelevance misinterpret/ misinterpretation
nonconformist unachievable
unambiguous unapproachable
unbeneficial unbiased
unclear uncommitted
uncommunicative unconfined
unconstitutional unconstrained
unconstructive uncontroversial
unconvincing uncooperative
uncreative uncultured
undiminished undiscriminating
undynamic uneconomical
unempirical unenergetic
unethical unfocused
unideological uninjured
uninvolving unjustifiable
unlicensed unmethodical
unmotivated unprofessional
unrefined unregulated
unreliable unsustainable
Hint: There are eight.
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Try to remember the negative prefixes of the words below:
accessible accurate
achievable adaptable
adequate ambiguous
approachable appropriate
beneficial biased
capable clear
coherent committed
communicative compatible/ compatibility
confined conformist
consistency/ consistent constitutional
constrained constructive
controversial convincing
cooperative creative
cultured demonstrable
diminished discrete/ discretion
discriminating dynamic
economical empirical
energetic ethical
flexible/ flexibility focused
ideological injured
interpret/ interpretation involving
justifiable legal
liberal licensed
logical mature/ maturity
methodical motivated
normal precise/ precision
professional proportionate
rational refined
regulated regulation/ regulate
relevant/ relevance reliable
security significant
stability sufficient
sustainable valid/ validity
Try to argue that some of the words are not necessarily in the right section and/ or that some of the opposites do not have opposite connotations. You will get one point for each one that you argue convincingly.
Use the list on the next page to help you if you need to.
What phrases can you use to talk about positive and negative aspects?
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Suggested answers
Positive words with negative prefixes
deregulation/ deregulate nonconformist
unbiased unconstrained
uncontroversial undiminished
unideological uninjured
Words which could be debated
adequate
biased
clear/ clarity
committed
confined
conformist
constitutional
constrained
controversial
cooperative
diminished
dynamic
empirical
flexible/ flexibility
focused
ideological
interpret
justifiable
liberal
licensed
mature
methodical
nonconformist
normal
professional
refined
regulated
regulation/ regulate
reliable
security
stability
sufficient
sustainable
unambiguous
unconfined
unconstrained
uncontroversial
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