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Six Minutes Vocabulary.

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Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary.

I'm Catherine.

And I'm Neil.

You know, Catherine, six-minute vocabulary is great because you can listen to each program again and again.

You can, Neil. You can reuse them.

You can. And the word reuse is a clue to today's topic.

It is. We're talking about prefixes. Those are the two or three letters that we can add to the beginning of words to change their meaning.

Like re in reuse. Yeah, we'll tell you more about re later and we'll also tell you about the prefixes pre and pro.

We'll explain what all three prefixes mean and give you lots of examples.

There'll be a quiz at the end. And a top tip for learning vocabulary. But first, let's hear from

Katie. She's an environmental campaigner. While you listen, try to answer this question. What do

teachers do with cereal boxes? Here's Katie.

Most food in supermarkets nowadays is prepacked in plastic and cardboard. This creates so much

waste. Takeaways and pre-cooked meals also use a lot of packaging. We have to re-educate people to cook for themselves

so they don't just reheat meals.

And people really need to become more proactive in recycling materials.

Teachers in preschool are great at this.

They reuse cereal boxes to make fantastic models of robots and spaceships with the kids.

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