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LITERACY LESSON 15

How to play the word game BABL^(c)
with Latin bits of words

Word analysis and Latin and Greek Vocabulary Extension Game for one, two or more players The Game of BABL(c) is copyright, and not to be copied or adapted for commercial purposes, but anyone can download it or copy it for play and school  INTRODUCTION to THE GAME OF BABL The pieces consist of 60 small tiles or cards THESE CAN BE PRINTED FROM THE SETS BELOW With beginnings of words (prefixes ) on one side And endings of words (suffixes) on the other, And a set of same -size blank cards or just scraps of paper that you can cut out yourself. If you make your own cards , a good way is to print them out or paste them onto both sides of sheets of card, with prefixes on one side, and suffixes on the other, laminate the sheets and then guillotine them into the 60 cards. Card-size of 4 x 2.5 cm is suggested. If this is tricky, then just have two sets of cards - one with prefixes, one with suffixes, as well as the blank pieces of paper for writing the 'middles' of words.

How to play 1. Set out the cards, suffix-side up in alphabetical order in 6 columns, for tiles headed with -a- , -e, -i, - o, -u, and one column tiles beginning for other letters Alternatively, with single-sided cards, all prefix cards are upside down, and all suffix cards are right-side up. This makes not such a good game, because it does not have the trick in how suffixes get used up.

2. Player 1 picks a piece, turns it over to see the pre, and tries to think of a word beginning with the prefix. Dictionaries can be used. Player 1 puts down his prefix card, then the rest of the word written on a card, except for any of the suffix cards the player can use. (Getting help and passing your turn is OK.)  EXAMPLE. A player may pick up a card and turn it over, and find IM. The player may then choose Suffix IBLE and write on a middle card POSS, and your word is IM -POSS-IBLE. Score 3 for putting down 3 parts of a word.

3. Player 2 picks up a piece, turns it over to see the prefix and tries to think of a word beginning with the prefix, if possible using parts already in words on the board - For EXAMPLE, Player 2 may keep his piece, but write on a card PROBA and add it on top of POSSI, to make IM -PROBA-BLE. Score 2 + 1 + 2 = 5. (Scores of 2 for every word part re-used) (On Player 2's next round, Player 2 will pick up another prefix and so have 2 to choose from.) OR Player 2 may just make a new word with the piece picked up, EXAMPLE. DISAPPOINTMENT (write APPOINT on a card, and pick up suffix -MENT).

4. Next player does the same thing. EXAMPLES. DIS -COURAGE-MENT , with COURAGE piled on top of APPOINT , or say RE- added on top of DIS - to make RE -APPOINT-MENT, or to get an even better score, add RE as a prefix and-ING as a suffix to make RE -APPOINT-ING .

AB- away	AN- not, without	AD- against	AMBI- around	ANTE - before
ANTI- against	ARCH- chief	AUTO- self	BENE- good	BI- two
CENT- 100	CIRCUM- around	CO- with	COM- with	CON- with
DE - away from, down	DIA- thru	DIS- apart	DUA- dual	DYS- badly
EQUA- equal	EX- out of	EXTRA- beyond, more	HYPER- above, too much	HYPO- under, too little
IN- in	INTER- between	INTRA- inside	INTRO- inside	MAL- badly
MAXI- big, more	MINI- little, less	MONO- single	NE- not	NEG- not
NEO- new	OB- against	OP- against	PEN- almost	PER- through
PHIL- liking, love of	POST- after	PRE- before	PRIM- first	PRIN- first
PRO- for	RE- again	SE- apart	SEMI- partly	SUB- under
SUP- under	SUPER- over	SUR- on	SUS- under	SYN- together
TRANS- across	ULTRA- beyond	UN- not	UNI- one	VIA- by way of

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