RIC-20239 Primary Grammar and Word Study Year 4 – Understanding and choosing words

Word origins
Many of the words we use come from other languages.
Knowing where words come from and their meaning can help us to work
out the meaning of some unknown words.
1. Read the text below then write words to match each origin.
The temporary teacher asked me to write a bibliography to accompany my report about amphibians
for our zoology research. My alternate topic was crustaceans. For my next one I might scribe
information from a documentary and draw diagrams about solar power or thermal heating.
Origin Meaning Word from text
(a) port
(b) temp
(c) scrib
(d) alter
(e) biblio
(f) zoo
(g) sol
(h) crusta
(i) therm
(j) amphi
carry
time
write
other
book
2. Use the clue and the initial letter to write a word derived from the country in brackets.
(a) a place where automobiles are kept (French)
(b) a cook (French)
animal
sun
shell
heat
both ends or all sides
(c) a light, fast sailing ship (Dutch)
(d) a short nap at noon (Spanish)
(e) a specially trained soldier (Afrikaans)
(f) a woman with brown or black hair (French)
(g) a place where young children are educated (German)
(h) an open courtyard (Spanish)
(i) a pie made with a yeast base (Italian) p
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