INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA DEPARTAMENTAL KIRPALAMAR

Prefijos y Sufijos en la formación de nuevas palabras

“La palabra es la droga más poderosa utilizada por la humanidad” Rudyard Kipling

Al agregar una letra o un grupo de letras a una palabra cambia su significado y/o su función. Me refiero al uso
de prefijos y sufijos. Un prefijo es una letra o un grupo de letras que se agregan al comienzo de una palabra. Al
comprender el significado de los prefijos más comunes podremos deducir el significado de las nuevas palabras.
Aquí tienes un cuadro que incluye los 35 prefijos más communes

Un sufijo es una letra o un grupo de letras que se agregan al final de una palabra para formar una nueva Palabra
o para modificar la función gramatical del término original. Aquí tienes un cuadro que incluye los 26 sufijos más
comunes.
Existen dos tipos de sufijos en inglés:

 Un sufijo derivativo indica que tipo de palabra se forma (como por ejemplo cuando se agrega ly a un adjetivo
para formar un adverbio)

 Un sufijo inflexional indica algo sobre el comportamiento gramatical de la palabra (como por ejemplo,
agregar la s a un sustantivo para formar su forma plural)

Ahora vamos a aplicar la teoría a la práctica

1. Utiliza prefijos para formar la palabra opuesta:

1 wrap ------------- 6 understand

2 use 7 fold
3 agree 8 spell
4 engage 9 connect
5 behave 10 close
2. Usa la palabra que se encuentra entre paréntesis en su forma correcta utilizando un prefijo o u sufijo
1. He was acting in a very way (child)
2. She looked. She started to cry. (happy)
3. He passed his exam. He was for the second time.
4. The team that he supported were able to win the. (champion)
5. I couldn’t find any in his theory. (weak)
6. He wants to be a when he grows up.
7. There were only a of people at the match. (hand)
8. The road was too narrow, so they had to it. (wide)
9. I think that you should your decision. It may not be the best thing to do. (consider)
10 You need a of motivation, organization and hard work to realize your dreams.(combine)
Comprensión lectora

Staying in the lead means continually raising the bar

A Defining quality

In 1980, a television documentary in the US entitled If Japan Can, Why can’t we? Announced that it had discovered
the secret of Japanese competitive success: quality. Japanese companies were successfully dominating world
markets because they had a quality system that allowed them to produce better products than their US rivals.
What was more, the documentary said, the Japanese had learned this quality system from US experts such as W
Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran. What US and other western businesses had to do now was relearn the
techniques of quality management.

The central problem revolves around an understanding of what “quality” is and how far the concept can be applied
across the organization. Definitions can vary, but it is generally accepted that the three elements which constitute
quality are fitness of the design, conformity to specification and satisfying customer needs.

Today, quality is most often defined by the reaction of the customer who buys and uses the product. If the customer
is satisfied, so the theory goes, the product is of sufficient quality.

However, a strategy based on no more than meeting customer expectations is a dangerous one, as it opens the
door to rivals that may produce better products. Financial Times

B Quality in manufacturing
Gordon Greer is head of quality at a car component company:
“The design for each component embodies the intentions of its designer. So conformity to specification means
putting these intentions into practice when we make the components. Put another way, this is elimination of
variation.
We pay great attention to accuracy. The components must be made to very strict tolerances the measurements
must be not more or less than particular limits to within a fraction of a millimeter.”
C Quality in services
Serena Togliatti is customer relations manager at a large bank:
“In services, there is a parallel situation to one in manufacturing. The service received by the customer must be
exactly what is planned and intended, and annoying mistakes, for example in accounts, must be avoided.
From the customer’s point of view, quality could be defined in terms of customer approval, that is, recognition that
we are satisfying customer needs and customer expectations. And if we exceed those expectations, there may even
be customer delight.”
ACTIVITY
A Fíjate en el título de la lectura. Encontrarás dos palabras iluminadas. Analízalas desde el punto de vista
gramatical.
Staying :
Rasing:
B En la lectura A, inicio del segundo párrafo te encuentras con una frase conectora. Analízala What was more
C en ese mismo párrafo encontrarás una palabra que tiene un sufijo que significa: “volver a” ¿cuál es?
D en el cuarto párrafo de la misma lectura se encuentra una oración resaltada. Di que tipo de oración es (simple,
compuesta o compleja) y da razón de tu respuesta
. If the customer is satisfied, so the theory goes, the product is of sufficient quality.
E. Fíjate en las lecturas A (defining Quality) y B( Quality in manufacturing) y responde las siguientes preguntas:
¿Qué expresión se refiere a:
1 la idea de acatar las intenciones de un diseñador?
2 asegurarse que se apliquen los principios de calidad?
3 entender el concepto de calidad de una manera lógica?
4 mantener satisfecho al cliente?
5 si el diseño es lo suficientemente bueno para el producto para el que fue creado?
F. En la lectura B encontrarás tres palabras resaltas. Di como están formadas( si tienen prefijos o sufijos ) y da su
significado dando razón de tu elección