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Vocabulary – Blend Words
Affluenza is a blend word made from joining two words together.
affluence + influenza = affluenza
Blending is a way of creating new words in English.
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1. Work in pairs. Underline the blend words in the sentences.
1. My mum is a real shopaholic. The way she shops makes dad dread to look at the credit card statement.
2. My choir club rehearses once a fortnight.
3. The police breathalysed the man as they suspect him of driving under
influence of alcohol.
4. Please do not use emoticons when you text me. I do not comprehend the
logic behind it.
5. This picture is so pixelated; I can’t see the image properly.
2. Which two word have been blended together to form the words in exercise 1?
3. Match one word from each box to create blend words.
4.
breath • emotion • fourteen • picture • work • documentary • agriculture • web •
• drama
• alcoholic • element • tourism • analyse • icon
• episode • night