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’