If the other person chooses you as well this is called a 'match', and the organisers will send you the other person's email address a couple of days later and they will be sent yours too. | e You re going to listen to a dictionary expert talking on the radio about the origin of the words below. ketchup orange tennis 1 Which word s origin is related to a legend 2 Which word changed its form because the original word was hard for the English to say 3 Which word originated from the way the English pronounced a foreign word f Listen again and complete the summaries with one or more words. Ketchup The original sauce was invented by 1 It was made from 2 British explorers first tried it in the 3 century and really liked it. Later some colonists from 4 mixed 5 into it and it became the sauce it is today. Orange This word and also the word for orange in5 and1 doesn t come from 8 it comes from ancient Sanskrit. The Sanskrit word narangah may come from naga ranga1 which means 9 The story is that an once ate so many that he 11 and some orange trees grew from his 12 Tennis The sport started in 13 It was 14 called tenez which means 15 The sport 16 there and became popular in 17 But the tenez sounded more like tennis when it was said with an 18 4 VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION prefixes and word stress One way of making new words is by adding a prefix at the beginning of a word . over- under- mis- etc. These prefixes change the meaning of a word. They are usually used without a hyphen but sometimes need one. a l ook at the words in the list. Then match the bold prefixes with their meanings. antisocial autograph ex-husband biannual misspell microscopic monosyllable multinational overworked postgraduate preconceived rewind semi-final underpaid 1 after 8 many 2 again or back 9 not enough 3 against 10 of or by oneself 4 badly wrongly 11 one 5 before 12 small 6 former 13 too much 7 half 14 twice tL Unlike suffixes which aren t stressed prefixes are often stressed so a word with a prefix may have two stressed syllables the main stress on the base word and secondary stress on the prefix . antisocial . b Listen and underline two stressed .
