Improve your listening and writing skills by filling in the blanks of the song lyrics. Today’s song, The 3 R’s by the American songwriter and singer Jack Johnson, refers to Reduce-Reuse-Recycle. Johnson composed this song to teach children about reducing waste. Since this week is dedicated to recycling, it is the perfect song to practice English with!
These activities are designed for Beginners and Intermediates so that they can learn new vocabulary related to a specific topic in a quick and fun way.
Exercise
Fill in the missing words. ⇩
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Grammar – Prefixes 
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Grammar – Prefixes
- A PREFIX is a letter or group of letters we add to the beginning of a word that changes form and meaning of the word.
- For example:
- -rich – enrich (from noun to verb)
- -sleep – asleep (from verb to adjective)
- -body – embody (from noun to verb)
- Some common PREFIXES include:
- – re-: to do again (renew, reconsider, redo, reuse)
- – anti-: against or opposed to (anti-war, antibody)
- – auto-: self or self-acting (automobile, autobiography)
- – de-: to change, reverse, or undo (detox, de-classify, depopulate)
- – dis-: to change or remove (disappear, displease, disqualify)
- – down-: to lower or reduce (downgrade, downtempo)
- – up-: increase or move higher (upscale, upgrade, upsell)
- – il-; im-; ir-; in-: not (illegal, impossible, irregular, insensitive
- – inter-: between (international, interchange, interstellar)
- – mis-: incorrectly or badly (mismanage, mislead, misaligned)
- – non-: not (non-smoking, noncompliant)
- – over-: too much (overcook, overcharge, overdone)
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Excellent to learn the numbers and to learn to change our habits
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