DIMINUTIVES To recognise know and match a range

DIMINUTIVES To recognise, know and match a range of common diminutives.

A diminutive implies that something is small. It may be small in size or years duck - duckling It may be a term of endearment Frog - Froggy

Making a diminutive… • Diminutives can be made by adding a suffix book + let - booklet • Diminutives can be made by adding a prefix mini + skirt - miniskirt They can even be a different word altogether! Dog - puppy

Prefixes that make things small • Mini • Micro • Nano Write down all the diminutives you can think of starting with these prefixes.

Suffixes that make things small • • ling y ette ock let en kin Write down all the diminutives you can think of ending with these suffixes.

What are these diminutives for? • • • Calf Foal Lamb Kid Cub kitten

Can you change these words into diminutives? bus mini + bus minibus pig + let piglet cow = calf

Silly diminutives • Why not invent your own diminutives! For example what might you call a baby alien? An alienette

Now you try… • Think of diminutives for these words. crisp burger monster carrot

We can often add ‘y’ to create a diminutive. • Look at these nick names … Sam Jones Alex Smith Bill – Jonesy – Smithy - Billy Can you change your name into a diminutive?

What is a diminutive?