TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Adjective Opposites 1

Activity Type Introduction

Vocabulary Game and This adjective opposites activity helps to increase students'
Activity: providing knowledge of adjectives and their opposites.
antonyms, forming
sentences, writing Procedure
sentences from prompts,
story writing (group and Start the activity by reading out each adjective on the worksheet
pair work) and eliciting examples of the adjective's meaning and possible
synonyms.

Focus Next, divide the class into teams of four.

Adjectives and their
Give each student a copy of the worksheet.
opposites
Tell the teams that you are going to read an adjective at random
from the worksheet, and the first team to call out the opposite of
Aim
the adjective scores a point.
To practice adjectives and
their opposites. The winning team can then score an extra point by making an
appropriate sentence with the adjective opposite.

Preparation Afterwards, all the students in the class write down the adjective
opposite on their worksheet.
Make one copy of the
worksheet for each
This continues until the worksheet is complete.
student
The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Level
Working alone, the students then write ten sentences using two
Pre-intermediate (A2) adjectives from the worksheet in each sentence, e.g. 'The pretty
girl drove a black sports car'.

Time When the students have finished writing, divide them into pairs
50 minutes and have the students exchange sentences.

The students read their partner's sentences, changing the

adjectives in the sentences to their opposites, e.g. 'The ugly girl
drove a white sports car'.

Finally, ask the pairs to create a short story using ten adjectives
from the worksheet. Have the pairs read their stories to the class
and give feedback.

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 TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Adjective Opposites 1

Activity Type Answer key

Vocabulary Game and rich - poor long - short
Activity: providing
antonyms, forming lazy - hardworking north - south
sentences, writing
sentences from prompts, fat - thin high - low
story writing (group and
pair work) male - female first - last

modern - traditional nice - nasty

Focus
Adjectives and their cloudy - sunny/clear intelligent - stupid
opposites
interesting - boring sick - healthy

Aim early - late curly - straight

To practice adjectives and full - empty off - on

their opposites.
cold - hot wide - narrow
Preparation clean - dirty good - bad
Make one copy of the
worksheet for each married - single happy - sad/unhappy
student
pretty - plain/ugly easy - difficult

Level front - back polite - rude/impolite

Pre-intermediate (A2) far - near east - west

wet - dry big - little/small

Time
50 minutes black - white round - square

sweet - sour/bitter alive - dead

beautiful - ugly cheap - expensive

left - right old - new/young

light - heavy fast - slow

quiet - noisy safe - dangerous

soft - hard true - false

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 ADJECTIVE OPPOSITES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Adjective Opposites 1

rich ......................... long .........................

lazy ......................... north .........................

fat ......................... high .........................

male ......................... first .........................

modern ......................... nice .........................

cloudy ......................... intelligent .........................

interesting ......................... sick .........................

early ......................... curly .........................

full ......................... off .........................

cold ......................... wide .........................

clean ......................... good .........................

married ......................... happy .........................

pretty ......................... easy .........................

front ......................... polite .........................

far ......................... east .........................

wet ......................... big .........................

black ......................... round .........................

sweet ......................... alive .........................

beautiful ......................... cheap .........................

left ......................... old .........................

light ......................... fast .........................

quiet ......................... safe .........................

soft ......................... true .........................

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