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  • Week 9 mega/micro

    Learning intention:

    To revise prefixes.

    To understand the prefixes mega-  and micro-

    Look at these words and identify the prefix im-

    impossible, immortal, improper, immobile, impersonal, imbalance.

    The prefix im- means not so it makes antonyms or opposites of the root words.

    Notice the letters at the beginning of the root word.

    im- is an alternative spelling of  in- ( as in ‘invisible’, ‘incomplete’ or ‘incapable’