🇬🇧 B2 ENGLISH CHAPTER 7 – LESSON 1
🌟 Words and Meanings & Prepositions in Use
🎯 Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
✅ Recognize and use abbreviations, prefixes, and suffixes to expand your vocabulary.
✅ Understand how prepositions work with verbs, nouns, and phrasal verbs.
✅ Improve your listening comprehension and cultural understanding through themed videos and real-life contexts.
🧭 How to Use This Lesson
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Start with the Vocabulary section 🧩 to learn how English words are formed and modified.
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Move to the Grammar section ✏️ to understand how prepositions connect with other parts of speech.
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Complete the Practice section 🎧 by watching the videos and engaging with listening and language focus activities.
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Mark each activity as Completed ✅ once done.
💡 Tip: Keep a Word Formation Journal — record new prefixes, suffixes, and abbreviations each week with examples.
🗣️ VOCABULARY: Words and Meanings (Units 85–87)
🔤 Unit 85: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Learn the difference between abbreviations (shortened forms) and acronyms (words formed from initials).
🪶 Example: info (information), UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
💡 Tip: Acronyms are usually read as words (like NATO), while abbreviations are read letter by letter (BBC).
🔁 Unit 86: Prefixes – Creating New Meanings
Understand how prefixes change meaning: un-, re-, pre-, mis-, anti-, etc.
🪶 Example: happy → unhappy, understand → misunderstand, view → preview
💡 Tip: Learning prefixes helps you guess the meaning of new words quickly!
🧩 Unit 87: Suffixes – Forming New Words
Discover how suffixes change word type (noun, adjective, adverb, verb).
🪶 Example: act → action, care → careful → carefully
💡 Tip: Identify patterns — -ness (state), -ly (manner), -able (ability), -er (person).
✏️ GRAMMAR: Prepositions (Units 91–94)
🚫 Unit 91: Talking About Exceptions
Use prepositions like except (for), apart from, and but for to show exceptions.
🪶 Example: “Everyone came to the meeting except John.”
💡 Tip: Except and apart from are often interchangeable — but but for is more formal.
🔗 Unit 92: Prepositions After Verbs
Learn common verb-preposition pairs.
🪶 Example: depend on, believe in, apologize for, look after
💡 Tip: These combinations are fixed — memorize them as “word partners,” not separate words.
🧠 Unit 93: Prepositions After Nouns
Master how nouns connect with prepositions.
🪶 Example: a need for, an advantage over, an increase in
💡 Tip: Pay attention to collocations — they’re key to sounding natural and fluent.
⚙️ Unit 94: Two- and Three-Word Verbs – Word Order
Understand how phrasal verbs work with or without objects.
🪶 Example: “Turn off the light.” / “Turn it off.”
💡 Tip: If the object is a pronoun, it always goes between the verb and the particle (turn it off, not turn off it).
🎧 B2 ENGLISH CHAPTER 7 – PRACTICE 1
🎯 Practice Focus
Listen and watch to understand everyday British English, focusing on vocabulary in context, tone, and preposition use.
🗂️ Topics Covered
🎆 Bonfire Night
🎃 Hallowe’en Scenes 1 & 2 (Language Focus)
🌦️ British Weather
🏓 Indoor Sports Scenes 1 & 2 (Language Focus)
🎆 Bonfire Night
Explore the history and traditions of this famous UK celebration.
💡 Tip: Listen for time prepositions (e.g., on the 5th of November, at night) and descriptive adjectives.
🎃 Hallowe’en Scenes 1 & 2
Watch how people talk about costumes, parties, and traditions.
💡 Tip: Focus on tone and cultural vocabulary — e.g., spooky, costume, trick-or-treat.
🌦️ British Weather
Understand how British people use idioms to describe the weather.
💡 Tip: Notice prepositions + nouns — e.g., in the rain, under the clouds, on a sunny day.
🏓 Indoor Sports Scenes 1 & 2
Learn everyday expressions around sports and competition.
💡 Tip: Identify phrasal verbs like warm up, give up, keep on, work out. These are essential for fluent speech.
💬 Final Thought
“Every word you learn builds a bridge to new ideas. The more bridges you build, the farther you can go.” 🌉✨
Keep building your vocabulary — one word, one prefix, one suffix at a time. 🌍