Welcome to Busy Teacher! On this page you will find 105 worksheets on opposites which is a subsection of the adjectives category. Lets take a look at an example of what you might find here. This is a fun opposites worksheet for young students; it includes a couple matching exercises and a word search. Once you download the worksheet, choose whether to print the color or black and white version. It is up to you. If there are other words you want students to practice just adapt the activities to suit your needs. Teaching students certain adjectives, such as tall and short, in pairs makes it easier for students to remember vocabulary words and to comprehend their meanings. There are many other worksheets that you might want to consider using so take your time reading about and viewing the different available options. For more general adjectives worksheets or comprehensive review activities, click on the main adjectives section.
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In lexical semantics, opposites are words that lie in an inherently incompatible binary relationship as in the opposite pairs male : female, long : short, up : down, and precede : follow. The notion of incompatibility here refers to the fact that one word in an opposite pair entails that it is not the other pair member. For example, something that is long entails that it is not short. It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites. The relationship between opposites is known as opposition. The term antonym (and the related antonymy) has also been commonly used as a term that is synonymous with opposite; however, the term also has other more restricted meanings. One usage has antonym referring to both gradable opposites, such as long : short, and (non-gradable) complementary opposites, such as male : female, while opposites of the types up : down and precede : follow are excluded from the definition.
This worksheet includes objective-type questions about time, measurement, rounding, missing numbers, odd and even numbers, factors, and basic shape concepts. Students have to solve these ...
There are four different exercises on this song worksheet to practice parts of speech. They include opposites, verb tenses (simple present, simple past, and simple future), and translati ...
Match, choose, and draw. This worksheet is all about vocabulary, mainly all kinds of travel. Words like trip, journey, tour, voyage, and cruise can easily confuse students. This wor ...
If you want your students to have fun when you check up homework, then this worksheet is for you. They will solve a crossword puzzle and give you the real picture of whether they know these adject ...
By adding negative prefixes to the beginnings of words, we can change a word's meaning into its opposite. Students are asked to choose the correct opposite of each word. There are 10 opposites inc ...
By adding negative prefixes to the beginnings of words, we can change a word's meaning into its opposite. Students are asked to choose the correct opposite of each word. There are 10 opposites inc ...
By adding negative prefixes to the beginnings of words, we can change a word's meaning into its opposite. Students are asked to choose the correct opposite of each word. There are 10 opposites inc ...
Character Traits is a Powerpoint presentation using cartoon characters (some with Russian Cyrillic writing on the image) to depict the adjective of the character trait. The adjectives are paired w ...
This is a powerpoint presentation to show students different adjectives and their opposites. It includes: fast/slow, long,/short, tall/short, heavy/light, high-loud/low, narrow/wide, thick/thin, t ...
Opposites help children in learning how to describe different things. This worksheet is a cloze activity all about opposites and can be used in any English language lesson. Students choose the cor ...
Opposites help children in learning how to describe different things. This worksheet is a cloze activity all about opposites and can be used in any English language lesson. Students choose the cor ...
A list of adjectives for introducing adjectives for the first time. You can use this presentation to teach adjectives and how to use them with the verb to be. You can make it more fun by asking yo ...
January 31st is a backwards day: you can use these cards (after cutting and pasting them on a cardboard sheet) to review opposites in a funny way. Then you can read the story to indroduce or talk ...
I use this game to practice the opposites of some adjectives. It is good for teens or adults learning basic English. When playing this game with lower levels, you can ask ss to mime the word they ...
You can use this worksheet to improve listening and vocabulary. It's a fill in the gap excercise where the missing words are adjectives. For the first or second listening just show the video, th ...
The aim of this worksheet is to encourage learners to use their knowledge of adjectives and to learn new adjectives. They are asked to choose from a selection of adjectives to describe the picture ...
This worksheet consists of three excersises. In the first one students write the opposite adjectives. In the second one they listen to the song and fill the gaps. Finally, they complete the chart ...
This is a PP presentation for revising opposites, colours, animals, feelings and family relationships at a very elementary level. I made it as a revision before young learners' first test but you ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary students. An antonym is a word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good ). Students are asked to match the word on the left with the anto ...
This worksheet was created for primary/elementary students. An antonym is a word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good ). Students are asked to match the word on the left with the anto ...
This is a worksheet I found here and adapted for my students. Split your group into pairs or groups depending on class size and give each pair a different table from page one. Cut up the adjective ...
This worksheet intends to revise family vocabulary and personal information, by drilling elementary grammar points in a funny and contextulized way. Students use short questions and answers and pr ...
This PowerPoint contains the opposite concepts big, little, long, and short. It includes different pictures to convey the meaning. It is appropriate for both complete beginner and elementary level ...
This is an intermediate level (esl) worksheet of some common word opposites. This includes prepositions, adjectives, nouns, etc. This is the teacher's copy. I use these worksheets as filler mat ...
This is an intermediate level (esl) worksheet of some common word opposites. This includes prepositions, adjectives, nouns, etc. This is the student's copy. I use these worksheets as filler mat ...
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