1、Unit 4 Growing up,Study skills,Guessing the meaning of a word by its formation,When we read and come across new words, we can sometimes guess their meanings by the way they are formed.,当我们阅读中遇到一些生词时，我们有时可以通过他们的构成来猜测词义。,Sometimes a suffix changes a words part of speech, but the meaning remains almost
2、 the same. Thus, if you know the meaning of the root word, you can guess the meaning of the word, e.g. illness, achievement, energetic, dangerous.,有时后缀改变单词的词性，但其意思几乎不变。因此，如果你知道此单词的词根意思就可以猜测这个单词的意思了，例如：illness, achievement, energetic, dangerous.,Sometimes a prefix or a suffix changes the meaning of a
3、 word, e.g. incorrect, dislike, unlucky, homeless.,有时前缀或后缀改变单词的意思，例如：incorrect, dislike, unlucky, homeless。,Sometimes two words come together to form a compound word, such as blackboard. Some compounds have a hyphen (-), such as hard-working.,有时两个单词在一起构成合成词，例如 blackboard。有些合成词中有一个连字符“-”，例如：hard-work
4、ing。,Millie has found out more about Anne Frank and her book. She underlined some new words in a paragraph. Help her guess their meanings. Match the words on the left with the meanings on the right. Write the correct letters in the blanks.,The Diary of a Young Girl became a best-seller as soon as it
5、 was published. Soon it was read by people worldwide. It is not an imaginary story but a true experience of a teenager in wartime. In this book, Anne, a Jewish girl, describes her boredom with being away from the outside world, her unhappiness with living in a small place all the year, and her fear
6、of discovery and death.,best-seller _ 2. worldwide _ 3. imaginary _ 4. wartime _ 5. Jewish _ 6. boredom _ 7. unhappiness _ 8. discovery _,g,related to the Jews b. the feeling of not being happy c. a period when there is a war d. from all parts of the world e. the state of feeling bored f. which is i
7、magined and not true g. a book which sells well h. the act of discovering somebody or something,d,f,c,a,e,b,h,1. n. 畅销书 2. adv. 遍及世界的 3. adj. 虚幻的，假想的 4. n. 战时 5. adj. 犹太人的 6. n. 厌烦 7. n. 不悦，忧愁，悲伤 8. n. 发现，发觉,在阅读中，除了根据上下文猜测生词词义外，我们还可以根据一些构词法常识来猜测生词词义，在平时学习中要留意一些构词法知识。,Summary,-ness, -tion, -ment, -ing, -dom等通常是一些名词的后缀。 2. -less是否定后缀，dis-, un-, in-, im-是否定前缀。 3. -able是形容词的后缀，-ly多为副词的后缀。 4. blackboard, hard-working, worldwide等由两个单词构成的复合词，其意思与两个单词有关。,总结你所知道的前缀后缀及复合词。,
