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Six Minutes Vocabulary. From BBC Learning English.

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 pre-packed 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.

So we asked you, what do teachers do with cereal boxes? And the answer is, they reuse them to make models of robots and spaceships.

That's right, they make something new with the boxes.

But instead of saying they use the boxes again, Katie said the word reuse.

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