Summary:
- The lesson presents two news reports with opposing viewpoints on a new hotel being built at a local beach.
- The first report highlights the potential benefits of the hotel, such as job creation and improvements to the area.
- The second report expresses concerns about the negative impacts, including limited job opportunities for locals, the replacement of traditional businesses, and environmental damage.
- Students are asked to analyze the reports and answer questions to understand the different perspectives and the vocabulary used.
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Understanding Suffixes
Suffixes are groups of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or grammatical function. In this case, we're looking at suffixes that create nouns.
Finding Examples from the News Reports
Let's go through each suffix and find examples from the provided news reports:
- -ment:
- statement: (already given)
- development: "We have asked for such development for years..."
- -tion:
- information: (already given)
- accusation: "There has even been an accusation that I am working to promote the hotel company..."
- -sion/-cion:
- tension: (already given)
- suspension: "I plan to join the other protesters who want a suspension of the building work..."
- -ist:
- activist: "I am not an activist and I refute the allegation that I tried to obstruct building work last week."
- -er/-or:
- worker: (already given)
- developer: "When developers released a statement that they were going to build a luxury new hotel..."
- protester: "I plan to join the other protesters who want a suspension of the building work..."
- -ity:
- opportunity: (already given)
- security: "...many local people were pleased and thought that the development could give us job security."
- -hood:
- neighborhood: "These restaurants will be too expensive for most people in our neighborhood."
- -dom:
- The reports do not contain any words ending in "-dom".