Attached is a lesson plan, worksheet and ppt for teaching some basic yet essential Latin Roots to high school students - definitely crucial for this level since they will be taking the 수능 during high school! This can help improve their educated guesses when reading difficult passages on tests.

Sweet - I'll definitely be able to use this. Been thinking of something along these lines myself.

Thanks!

I think the linguistic development of both Latin and Greek is complicated and highly debatable, many agree with you however that Greek came first.

For more advanced students I used this lesson, with a very very crude version of the history of the English language just to make it a bit more interesting.

There are some words that have both Latin and Greek roots that are hard to decipher... There are also words with very definite Greek roots.

I think the origination of certain roots in Greek as opposed to Latin is only important if you're planning on giving a comprehensive lesson in the history of English. Which may well work for some, but even the little bit of Latin history here was pushing the limits for some of my kids. In the one class where I did attempt to differentiate between the two, I found my students had no concept of ancient Greek vs. modern and thought I was telling them that English just takes words from present-day Greece. Is it inaccurate to say that all of these words come from the Latin? Yes. But on the whole, I don't think the inaccuracy is in any position to hinder my students' usage of modern English. What I do think is valuable here is that you're essentially giving your students a cheat-sheet to decipher new, more difficult words they might encounter. And I would rather allocate my time to teaching them more roots than in trying to explain semantic linguistic history. That being said, I do think it's important to tell my students that they can find more roots by searching online for Latin AND Greek root words, so they can read up on the history themselves if they're so inclined.

But anyway, I also used this lesson for an adult camp I taught over break. It was amazing - some of them were taking pictures of the slides on their phones and they demanded the next day that I email them the file because their pictures were blurry. They thought it was the most useful lesson from the entire camp, so kudos again.

Great lesson, thank you