Latin and Greek Roots

(TESOL Worksheets--Prefixes Suffixes and Root Words)

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Worksheet: docs, pub
Crossword: drive, Crossword answers: drive, Crossword puzzle questions: docs, pub
[Procedure: I give out the first page of the worksheet.  Students, in groups, try to identify the meaning of the Latin or Greek root words.  Answers are confirmed either orally in class, or by handing out the second page of the worksheet.  (Pages 3 and 4 of the worksheet--the example words--are for teacher's reference only.)  Then, the class is given 3 minutes to make as many words as they can out of the combination of Latin and Greek roots.  At the end of 3 minutes, the group which has the most words is the winner.
Then, the crossword is given out.  Students work on it in groups.
Crossword was made using https://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/.  The students are instructed that each answer will show up twice, because for each word both the dictionary definition is given as well as the root word combination.  (e.g. television is both "far+see" and "a piece of equipment, with a screen on the front, used for watching programmes")
I may have overloaded the crossword, because all of the words show up really small. I enlarged this crossword on to large A3 paper, and handed it out one per group in my classes to try to alleviate this somewhat.  However, students still mentioned that the type was small.  If I do this again, I may try to do a crossword on small paper.
Also: students were confused by the fact that I had two roots meaning "write" ("graph" and "script").  If I do this again, I may want to elimate "script", but I can't do it at the moment without re-doing the crossword.

What do these root words mean?

auto= bene= bi= bio= contra= -cracy= cycle= demo= dict= fact= hydro= geo= graph= mari= micro= meter= mobile= -ology= pre= port= post= psyche= trans= tele= therm= phobia= phone= satis= script= sub= techno= vis=

answers

auto=self bene=good bi=two bio=life contra=against -cracy=rule, govern cycle=circle demo=people dict=say fact=made, done hydro=water geo=earth graph=write mari=ocean, sea micro=small meter=measure mobile=easy to move -ology=study pre=before port=carry post=after psyche=mind, spirit trans=across tele=far therm=heat phobia=fear phone=voice, sound satis=enough script=write sub=under techno=art, skill vis=see

examples

life+write= biography

life+study=biology

far+see=television

far+voice=telephone

self+life+write=autobiography

across+carry=transport

two+circle=bicycle

people+write=demographics

people+rule=democracy

earth+write=geography

earth+study=geology

water+fear=hydrophobia

under+ocean=submarine

earth+heat=geothermal

self+rule=autocracy

heat+measure=thermometer

mind+study=psychology

skill+study=technology

self+easy to move=automobile

easy to move+voice= mobile phone

far+write=telegraph

small+life+study=microbiology

under+write=subscript

after+write=postscript

skill+fear=technophobia

across+fear=transphobia

people+fear=demophobia

small+fear=microphobia

people+study=demology

skill+rule=technocracy

mind+writing=psychography

small+sound=microphone

fear+writing=graphophobia

before+say=predict

after+say=postdict

good+say=benediction

against+ say=contradict

good+ done=benefactor

enough+ done=satisfactory

water+sound=hydrophone

far+ carry= teleport

life+ fear= biophobia