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Opposites

Vocabulary review and enrichment.

Procedure: Write on the board or dictate a series of six to ten
words, which have fairly clear opposites. In pairs or groups, the
students help each other to think of and note down the opposites.
Check, and supply any words the students did not know.
The box gives some suggestions for pairs of opposites. Note,
however, that these are only suggestions, and for some items you
or your students may wish to suggest other opposites that we have
not thought of. In some cases, words may have two or more
possible opposites, for example 'light': 'heavy' or 'dark'. Also, you
should be open to original, imaginative suggestions from the
students, provided these are accompanied by reasonable
justification!

Variation: If by the end of the activity all the pairs of opposites
have been written on the board, erase the original words you gave
and see if the students can recall them from the ones remaining.

BOX: Opposites

Elementary
foot: head, hand cold: hot
drink: eat far: near
hard: soft, easy, gentle father: mother, son
full: empty clean: dirty
boy: girl, man right: wrong, left
old: new, young black: white
fat: thin wife: husband

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