Synonyms and antonyms are another important aspect of word building that you can easily include in your lessons at any level. Even beginners learn antonyms when they study adjectives like tall, short, big, and small at which point they will also probably learn that small and little are similar. There are 97 worksheets available in this section now with more being added all the time by busy teachers like you. Here is an example. This is a challenging word game created for intermediate students that encourages them to work in groups, have fun, and use synonyms. The directions are included on the last page of the document and, if there are particular words that you would like students to practice, it couldn't be simpler to edit the cards. This popular worksheet is one of many so if it is not appropriate for your students, consider one of the other worksheets instead. Remember that all our worksheets are free so you should visit again the next time you need a worksheet.
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This worksheet helps to enrich student's vocabulary. It gives synonyms for so often used words like "good" and "bad" and provides examples where and how to use them. At the beginning of the lesson ...
Here you have some prepared flashcards used for practicing antonyms with your elementary class students. There are 42 words there together with their opposites. You can ask your students create se ...
Students will practice writing skills using synonyms that illustrate a picture. Students list synonyms for overly used words, write sentences, and revise paragraphs to vary word choice. Several ...
This worksheet is great for describing people's physical appearance. It is useful for presenting vocabulary. It is a very organized way to provide an easy understanding. It provides adjectives, s ...
This is a worksheet about the synonyms and antonyms. Students have to write down the synonym and / or antonym of the given word in the list of table. The aim is to provide a practice to students ...
This activity is aimed at an able pre-intermediate group up to upper-intermediate. It talks about Valentine's Day traditions from around the world and introduces new vocabulary to students in form ...
This worksheet is an entry test divided in comprehension, grammar and vocabulary. It has multiple choice exercises, gap filling and brief comprehension exercises. It also contains an exercise to f ...
Over a hundred printable Taboo Game cards with template for beginner and intermediate students. The objective of the game is for a player to have his/her partner(s) guess the word on his/her card ...
This is to practice comparatives and a few superlatives. After watching the video, students have to choose if the sentence is true or false and correct the mistakes. Each sentence has a mistake. ...
Hi, this is a worksheet to use with the song "I'm Sailing" by Rod Stewart. The activities are: find the missing words, put the lines in order, rewrite a verse in the past simple, find the anonyms, ...
Over a hundred printable Taboo Game cards with template for beginner and intermediate students. The objective of the game is for a player to have his/her partner(s) guess the word on his/her card ...
First, there are two columns for matching synonymous words. This is followed by a sentence completion activity that uses the words in two columns. Finally, there are suggestions for supplemental a ...
Stare or glare? Watch or view? Can your students tell the difference? Why don't you check? This worksheet is intended for upper-intermediate and advanced students who wish to expand their vocabula ...
This song is a good pace for beginner and elementary students, allowing them to catch words by using a gap fill activity. There is a pre-listening task of matching words which may take beginners l ...
This cover Madonna recorded in 2000 is great to practice the simple past, practice vocabulary, teach expressions and to "open" the students' ears as they have fun trying to sing with the Queen Of ...
This is a two-page worksheet dealing with verbs that students often find confusing and therefore misuse them. You can let your students complete the sentences with appropriate verbs individually o ...
Take me to your heart by Michael Learns to Rock: This is a song activity which is mainly focused on SYNONYMS and ANTONYMS. It is used for developing students' listening skill. I made it for my ele ...
This is a song meant for Elementary students who have already seen "going to Future". Students should read the song together with their teachers before starting to work on the song for them to und ...
An easy and fun way to teach antonyms to Pre-Intermediate students. I let the students choose the words to read aloud. They picked a word out of a bag, read the word aloud, and told the class the ...
Students use a thesaurus to find synonyms for twelve adjectives provided. Students then use five of the synonyms to write a story or sentences. Students may use a print thesaurus such as Roget's T ...
This is a lovely opposite adjectives mini-book for beginners. There are 12 adjectives to be learnt : big-small, fat-thin, clean-dirty, wet-dry, full- empty; clean-dry. The mini-book is availab ...
You can use this presentation to teach adjectives and how to use them with verb to be. I show my kids the slides and ask them to make sentences about the adjectives. You can also use this presenta ...
Taught this song in conjunction with a unit about Native Americans and the wild west. Short synonym matching included. Students had fun trying to sing along. Prior to teaching the song students le ...
Synonyms - Antonyms Worksheet for elementary students. This worksheet has both synonyms and antonyms test with multiple choice questions. The purpose of this test is to check for students' un ...
This board game generates conversation about recycling, and also has students thinking about related vocabulary. Is a very useful followup to any recycling focused lesson. Includes giving synonyms ...
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