Homework on Synonyms and Antonyms

Posted by Jonathan - Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Visit the following Web-link, and complete the exercises.

Although you have been provided with antonyms and synonyms finders, try to look for the most common word. A word can have a multitude of synonyms for very diverse contexts, but based on what we are reading or studying in class, find the match that fits our particular situation in class. Remember that these words were taken mostly from the reading "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry.

http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=145848&page=1

The last four links provided on the worksheet for homework contain 4 different practices. Work on them as well, please.

You can also access the Web pages by clicking the following links:





Good luck with your homework and have fun with the task.

See you in class!

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Week 12: Antonyms Practice 1

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An exercise based on the vocabulary found in the short story "The last Leaf" by O. Henry.


Find the opposites:

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Verb Doers

Posted by Jonathan - Monday, March 15, 2010

To practice with verb doers, let's take a look at the following link:



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Fingers' Names

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Let's find out the name of fingers in English.
Take a look at the following picture.
If you want to learn more about the names of fingers in English, visit the following link:


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Week 9: Practice on Synonyms 1

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Synonyms: Practice 1

What are synonyms? Synonyms are words that have a similar meaning but are spelt differently. It may happen that these words do not have an exact equivalence, yet they are used to avoid repeating the same lexeme (word), over and over again. In terms of reading, it is not surprising the writers use different synonyms to refer to the same concept and to not repeat the same lexeme all thetime.

For instance a synonym for the word pretty can be the word beautiful. However, many people would say that beautiful is a stronger word than pretty. That is that in terms of beauty, beautiful is higher in intensity than pretty.

Example:

Alice is a beautiful woman. But Claire is also pretty.

Who’s more beautiful? Alice? Or Claire?

The answer, no doubt, because of the choice of words, is Alice.

The following exercise will ask you to work with a group of words and phrases to try to find their corresponding synonyms, or at least very close lexemes in terms of meaning.


http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=145838



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