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Fill in the Lyrics: The 3 R’s

Listening 4 min Lyrics Intermediate

Vocabulary - 13 contextual words

Grammar - Prefixes

Pronunciation - American

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!

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Exercise

Fill in the missing words. ⇩

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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.

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)