Lesson Planning of Synonyms and Antonyms

 

Lesson Planning of Synonyms and Antonyms

Subject English

Grade 3^rd

Students` Learning Outcomes

• Recognize and use words similar and opposite in meaning.

Information for Teachers

• Similar means having same meanings. They are also called synonyms.
• Opposite words are also called antonyms. In grade iii, we use direct opposites, e.g. big / small, old / new, dirty / clean, etc.

• Opposites are often adjectives as they describe (words) e.g. old book, small cat, etc.

 

 

Writing board, chalk / marker, duster, worksheets, charts, textbooks

Introduction

• Ask the students randomly to tell anything about the following:
• Big in the class / anything small in the class
• Clean in the class / anything dirty in the class
• Dull / black / dark in the class / anything bright / white / colourful in the class
• New in the class / anything old in the class

 

• After this activity, tell the students that they will learn some similar and opposite words.

Development

Activity 1

• Write the following words on the board.
• Old, long, difficult, big, hard, tall, heavy, new, small, beautiful, short
• Ask the students to work in groups and tell the words and their opposites from the given list of words.
• Once the students have done with the opposites, discuss similar meanings of the words with them. Let the students guess.
• Help when required
• Ask the students to note down the similar and opposite meaning words in their notebooks side by side.
  

 

Activity 2

• Write the following activity on the board.
• Find the word next to it that is the synonyms.

1. Bade; awful, silly

1. Pretty; beautiful, ugly

1. Thin; fat, lean

1. Big; large, small

1. Talk; speak, silent

1. Wet; dry, soaked

1. Quick; slow, fast

1. Glad; happy, sad

 

• Draw three columns on the writing board and ask the students to draw the same in their notebooks e.g.

• Ask the students to guess the meanings of difficult words in pairs.
• Ask them randomly about the meanings of the difficult words.
• Ask them to write similar meaning words and opposite meaning words in respective columns.
• Tell them to note the words and meanings side by side on their notebooks.
• Once they understand all the meanings, ask them to put them in the columns accordingly.
• Take rounds to monitor and help the students, where required.

Sum up / Conclusion

• Conclude the less by asking the students:

1. What are synonyms? Give examples.
2. What are antonyms? Give examples

Assessment

• Assess students` performance through activity 1 and 2.
• Take a round and ask student about their scores.
• Involve the students in solving problems given in exercise at the end of unit / chapter.

Follow up

• Ask the students to consult a dictionary to find opposite or same meaning words of the following:

1. Old, long,   difficult, big,   hard,    tall,    heavy,    small, beautiful,    cold, short