Summarize the information
from a text heard
Clarifying meaning of text heard
Inferring meaning of borrowed word
PREFIX
What flower is
this?
LILY
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Match the meaning of words.
1. ancient a. connected with
b. a native of Egypt
2. Egyptians
c. old/long ago
3. associated d. the ability to
conceive children
4. fertility
Lilies are magnificent flowers
that command attention
wherever they are planted. They
are group of flowering plants
which are important in culture
and literature in much of the
world .
FOLLOW- UP QUESTIONS:
Lily
To the ancient Egyptians, the What symbolized the
trumpet-shaped lily was a trumpet-shaped Lily?
symbol of Upper Egypt, the Where was Upper
southern part of the country. Egypt located?
In the ancient Near East, the lily
Who was Ishtar or
was associated with Ishtar, also
known as Astarte, who was a Astarte?
To whom was she
goddess of creation and fertility
as well as a virgin. associated with?
Painters often In this paragraph, the
portrayed the angel
lily was associated with
Gabriel handing Mary a
lily, which became a the following:
Christian symbol of ________________
purity. Besides being
linked to Mary, the lily
was also associated
with virgin saints and
other figures of
exceptional chastity.
De-is a prefix of Latin origin which has several meanings. It means
“down” as in descend or to go down or move away from as in depart.
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words from the box.
despise deducted
PRACTICE
EXERCISE delegate derailed
decline delete
deteriorating detour
depressed
1. When you turn down an invitation, you _______it.
decline
2. The peace-and order situation in the country is said
to be going down from bad to worse. We can say
that it is______________.
deteriorating
3. When a person’s spirit is low, we could infer that
she/he is____________.
depressed
4. When we look down on someone with disfavor or
contempt, we may be said to _______________.
despise
5. While driving, you are forced to leave the highway
because of road repairs. Therefore turned away on
a _________________.
detour
6. But when a train jumps away from the rails, we say
that it is_____________.
derailed
7. When we take out a word from a message,
we_____________
delete it.
8. Certain amounts can be taken away or _________from
deducted
someone else’s income or salary.
9. A person who is sent to attend a conference as a
delegate
representative is called a _______________
De-is also used to give the idea of reversing or undoing.
Example: decode deflate decrease
Before a coded message can be understood, we must undo or
decode it.
De also means completely or entirely.
Example:
A forest is said to be deforested if it is entirely stripped of trees
and other plants.
When old buildings are torn down completely, we use the
word demolished.
Match words with prefix de with its ASSIGNMENT
meaning.
1. Decay a. To send out of the country
2. Declined b. To press down
3. Decode c. Feeling down or sad
4. Decrease d. To take out or to remove
e. To lower or break down
5. Deduct
into small amount
6. Dejected f. To break down words
7. Depress g. To go down or to drop
8. Deport h. To break down
