Chapter 3   Minor Word Formation (1)

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Contents: minor ways of word formation, including blending, clipping, acronym, back-formation, sound reduplication and communization of proper names. 

Objectives: 

1.Have a systematic study of the ways to form English new words, i.e. blending, clipping, acronymy, back-formation, sound reduplication and communization of proper names. 

2.Cultivate students’ ability to guess the meaning of words according to the information of word formation. 

3.Enlarge students’ vocabulary with the help of the basis information of word formation. 

Difficult points: The basic information about blending, clipping and acronym, back-formation, sound reduplication and communization of proper names, including their definitions, classifications and stylistic features of the words formed in each way.

Procedures: 

Step I  Brief review of the last lecture by analyzing the exercises 

Step II  Presentation 

Analyze these methods one by one. During this process, questions will be asked and students will be encouraged to analyze the structures and features of these methods.

1.Blending: definition, classification, features of blends

2.Clipping: Definition, Analysis of reasons for using clipping, Types of clipping Characteristics of clippings

3.definition, two types of acronyms, Initialisms: definition; classification, Acronyms: definition, classification, omments on initialisms and acronyms 

4.Back-formation: definition, classification, stylistic features. 

5.definition, four groups of sound reduplication

6.Commonization of proper names: four types of words from proper names 

Explain the examples given in the textbook and supply additional information the aid their understanding

Step III Assignment 

Clipping

1.  Clippingis a way of making a new word by cutting a part off the original and using whatremains instead.

e. g. omnibus – bus

aeroplane – plane

examination – exam

bicycle – bike

2.   Fourtypes of clipping:

    1)front + clipping   telephone – phone

   backclipping     gentleman – gent

   front andback clipping   refrigerator – fridge

   phraseclipping

3.    a. television       b. demonstrations   c. nuclear

    d.Vietnamese   e.information          f. co-operatives

    g.high-technology                           h. European