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Roads to education 69
6A
v
Negative prefixes: un-, im-, ir- and il-
insight
6
Study the adjectives from the article and read the
rules. Then write the correct negative prefixes.
1
happy
2
responsible
3
thinkable
4
legal
5
polite
6
possible
7
usual
8
mature
We often add the prefix
un
- to a word to make it
negative. However, when the word starts with
l
,
m
,
p
or
r
,
we often use a different prefix.
a
im-
+
m
or
p
perfect
→
imperfect
b
ir-
+
r
rational
→
irrational
c
il-
+
l
literate
→
illiterate
7
Add the correct negative prefixes to the adjectives.
fortunate helpful logical moral practical
regular safe surprising tidy
8
Complete the sentences with negative adjectives in
exercises 6 and 7.
1
I think my school is an
place to
study. We really need the police.
2
The classroom looked
at the end
of the lesson. There were bits of paper on the desks
and on the floor.
3
Stop talking! It’s
to hear what the
teacher is saying.
4
When someone breaks the law and does something
, it’s necessary to punish them.
5
My brother is
at school. He’s scared
because there are bullies in his class.
6
If you are
, it means you can’t
read or write.
9
SPEAKING
Work in groups. Imagine you are
teachers at a new school and you have decided to
introduce fines for bad behaviour. Look at the list
of ‘crimes’ and agree on a fine for each one. The
minimum fine is 10 euros. The maximum fine is 500
euros. Then compare your ideas as a class.
being late cheating bullying fighting
swearing truancy using a mobile phone in class
forgetting homework vandalism
Crime
Fine
forgetting homework
€10
Vocabulary bank
School: bad behaviour page 139
DVD extra
An American high school
impolite. ‘If a student behaves badly, the police
officer will punish offenders and give them a ticket,’
explains one student. The ticket might say you have
to pay a fine, or appear in court. The fines can be
up to $500, and many poorer parents don’t have the
money.
3
These
students will get a criminal record, and when they
leave prison, it’ll be impossible for them to get a job
or go to college. This record will destroy their lives,
and all because they did something wrong at school.
Unfortunately, the situation isn’t going to change.
4
‘We need police in
school,’ says a twelve-year-old student at Fulmore.
‘In my school, it can get physical and it can turn out
very bad.’ However, statistics tell us what happened
in Colorado was unusual. Most schools do not face
a serious threat of violence, and police officers often
only deal with ‘naughty’ or immature students.
School is not like the outside world. Children don’t
usually commit terrible crimes. Severe punishments
for small offences may do more harm than good.
In one incident, police officers pepper-sprayed a
sixteen-year-old student when he didn’t respond to
an order.
5
When
they pepper-sprayed him, he started swinging his
arms around in pain and hit one of the officers by
accident. Now the police are charging him with
assault*, and he will probably spend time in prison.
Police officers in schools may well be protecting
some lives, but are they destroying others?
* zero tolerance policy = punishing all bad behaviour,
even when it is not serious
* assault = when someone attacks another person
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Vocabulary:
collocations: crime; negative prefixes; adjectives in poems
Grammar:
will
and
going to
; first conditional; zero conditional; expressing
probability:
may
,
might
,
will
; adverbs of probability
Speaking:
talking about school life; making predictions about the future;
making offers and suggestions; discussing a poem
Writing:
a for and against essay