The word formation exercise 'How do trees secretly talk to each other?' is an original interactive resource created for the eTwinning project "Today's Seeds, Tomorrow's Trees" which allowed the students to produce new words by modification of existing words (derivation).
After finding the solutions, the students realised on their own the fact that word formation highlights the significance of a language because a word can be transformed into a new one with the help of prefixes or suffixes and that its meaning changes sometimes completely: eg solitude-solitary, science-scientists, fond-fondly, seed-seedlings, survive-survival, health-healthier, defend-defences, near-nearby, altruism-altruistic, inform-information.
Also, the video How trees secretly talk to each other (BBC News) engaged the students in discussions, allowing them to practise and improve not only their vocabulary and understanding of the topic, but also their communication skills.
After finding out about the fact that trees communicate and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web, often behaving in an altruistic way, most students concluded that our human society should follow their example and share the spare resources with the less fortunate ones.
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