👉 Communicative area: speaking about environmental issues
👉 Active vocabulary: aware, environment, resource depletion, deforestation, issues, interdependent, nuclear, valuable, biodiversity, species, extinct, endangered; prefix en-
1. Think of a place that you like. Describe it to your partner.
2. How would you feel if this place were destroyed?
Listen to the interview with Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and do the test to check your understanding.
Quiz created by Veronika Bebekh with GoConqr
Prefix is a word part that is added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning. The prefix en- means in or within.
It is generally added to a word to make in a verb.
In the word endangered the base of the word is danger ; when you add the prefix en-, the word becomes a verb meaning to put something at risk of being harmed, damaged or destroyed.