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extremist: moderate prosecution: defence
coastal: inland raise: lower
ascend: descend omit: include
child: adult vacant: occupied
bless: curse niece: nephew, aunt
refuse: consent natural: artificial
pride: humility, modesty native: foreigner
contract: expand modern: old-fashioned
conceited: modest ignorant: educated, knowledgeable
absent: present drunk: sober
accept: reject negative: positive, affirmative
victory: defeat joy: sorrow
Oral cloze

Listening comprehension.

Procedure: Read a story or prose passage, which can be from your
course book. Stop occasionally before a key word and get the
students to guess what it is going to be: they can either volunteer
the word orally, or write it down. If the passage is one they have
worked on recently, this can function as a review exercise of key
vocabulary.

Piling up a sentence

Present simple (or another tense); vocabulary review.

Procedure: Start by telling the students something you like, for
example: I like pop music. Then ask a student to recall what you
like, and add a 'like' of his or her own:
(The teacher) likes pop music, I like watching
television. Another student adds a further item:
(The teacher) likes pop music, Jaime likes watching
television, I like ice cream.
. . . and so on, with each student adding something, until the
chain becomes too long to remember.

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