(Words with similar meanings)
1. warm
9. strange
2. cool
10. normal
3. sad
11. empty
4. happy
12. full
5. hungry
13. soft
6. full
14. hard
7. tall
15. quiet
8. short
16. noisy
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Synonyms 2a - Lesson Collection Set #4
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(Words with similar meanings)
1. strong
9. dangerous
2. weak
10. safe
3. expensive
11. interesting
4. cheap
12. boring
5. true
13. smooth
6. false
14. rough
7. wide
15. cruel
8. narrow
16. kind
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Synonyms 2b - Lesson Collection Set #4
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Teachers’ Instructions (1/2)
Synonyms 2 (A&B)
pair or group with the most (correct)
synonyms written at the end of the given
time (10, 15, 20 minutes) becomes the
winner. [More time for lower-ability
students, less time for higher-ability
students.]
#2: Give all pairs or groups ample
time (about 20~25 minutes) then the pair
or group with the most (correct)
synonyms written is declared the winner.
1. Student ability: Low Intermediate ~ Advanced
2. Approximate length of lesson: 30+
3. Number of students necessary: 2+
4. Preferred age/maturity: HS, College, Adult
5. Type of lesson: Pair / Group Activity
*****
Language Target: Finding synonyms for
common pairs of adjective opposites,
vocabulary development.
Setting Up: Take one of the words from the
worksheet, for example – sad, and ask
students if they know any synonyms for
it. Write their answers on the board. See
how many they can come up with
(morose, sorrowful, gloomy, pensive,
disheartened). Try another word from
the list and do the same.
Explain to students that today’s
lesson is trying to find as many
synonyms as they can for a list of words
on the worksheet.
Getting Started: Either pair the students or
put them into small groups. Hand out one
copy of the worksheet to each student.
Explain the rules according to #1, #2, #3
or #4 below (or invent your own rules):
#1: Make this a timed exercise, the
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#3: Give all pairs or groups ample
time (about 20~25 minutes) then the pair
or group with the most (correct)
UNIQUE synonyms written is declared
the winner. (For example, all pairs or
groups have written sorrowful a n d
gloomy as synonyms for sad, but only
one group wrote pensive and another
group wrote disheartened. Only the
unique words are given points.
#4: Give points for the number of
letters in the written synonyms – i.e.,
pensive gets seven points because it has
7 letters, disheartened gets 12 points.
Variation 1: As a whole class activity, don’t
hand out the worksheet at first. Read one
word as a time from the list and award
points to students who identify a correct
synonym.
Variation 2: This could be a team effort
‘reverse synonym’ lesson. Divide the
class into two teams. Don’t hand out the
worksheet at first. Tell students that each
team will have the chance to offer only
one word. Their team has to be the first
to identify the word given on the list.
The teacher offers a synonym for
the target word (strange), for example:
o d d . TEAM A may say weird and
TEAM B may say u n u s u a l . Both
answers – while good – do not match the
target word (strange).
Synonyms 2 [Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4d]
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Teachers’ Instructions (2/2)
Select another target word from the
list, for example s t r o n g. Offer a
synonym: large. TEAM A might say:
HUGE. TEAM B might say s t r o n g.
Since strong is the target word from the
list, TEAM B is given a point.
Building Fluency: Student Q&A. After the
worksheets have been completed,
encourage pairs of students to ask simple
questions such as: Is it usually warm in
June? Partners respond with something
like, Yes, it’s pretty toasty and balmy.
Another way to do this is to
encourage students reply in the negative
form: Is it usually warm in June?
Partners respond with something like,
No, it isn’t very toasty, in fact it’s
usually cool and chilly.
Writing Practice: Paragraph swapping. In
pairs, students write a short paragraph
using some of the words from the
list.(Remind students to underline the
words from the list that they use in their
paragraphs. I was really happy last night.
I was so hungry that I could have eaten a
house. I ate two plates of spaghetti until I
was so full that ….
When both students have finished
their paragraph, have them swap papers
and exchange the underlined words for a
synonym. I was really cheerful last
night. I was so famished that I could
have eaten a house. I ate two plates of
spaghetti until I was so stuffed that ….
Similar Lessons:
Synonyms 1
(Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4a)
Synonyms 1A (Continued)
(Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4b)
Synonyms 1B (Continued)
(Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4c)
Synonyms 2A (Continued)
(Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4e)
Synonyms 2B (Continued)
(Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4f)
Synonyms 3
(Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4g)
Synonyms 3A (Continued)
(Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4h)
Synonyms 3B (Continued)
(Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4i)
Contributed by Kurt Scheibner
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