Latin and Greek Vocab Lesson

[chasmmi]

I am thinking of trying to put together an 80 minute lession revolving around Latin and Greek vocabulary. (Essentially the English equivalent of a basic hanja lesson).

The aim is to be both interesting but at the same time show that understanding the meanings of words like Aqua, Hydra, Tele, etc can give you a decent stab at understanding some difficult vocabularies in English.

My thought is to build up to the point where at the end of the lesson I can hit the students with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and they can have a fair stab at understanding its meaning.

The class only contains 3 students and they are bright and willing to try a lot of new ideas so there shouldnt be any issues with them refusing to do the class or demanding to play hangman instead.

Just wandered if anyone out there with better Classics proficiency than me has any tips on how to put this together and how many words would suffice for a basic gist of the topic.

Thanks

[Jozigirl]

Do a Google search for "English prefixes, roots and suffixes" and you should easily find a couple of sites that list the most common ones.  I wouldn't try to explain all three of these grammar roots at once - possibly even just focus on "roots" for one lesson.  If it's middle school students, I would give them 15 words at most.

[jamster]

where is the stuff?

[CorbenDallas]

I did a lesson like this for summer camp.  I taught the students some roots, and had them make spells (Harry Potter theme).  Then for fun, I had the students write their spells in big lettering on a piece of paper.  I randomly chose spells for the students and taped them on their shirts for a wizards' duel.  The students would stand back-to-back, walk three steps, and turn.  The student who could say the spell on their opponent's shirt the fastest won.