TELL ME HOW

TELL ME HOW

WALA: The uses of salt

L.O: To understand word opposites and how they are formed

Starter activity

1. Spelling activity;

day, redo, salted, unsalted, fiction, useless, valuable, non-fiction, useful, add, late, early, subtract, do, night

2. Ask the students to match each word with their opposites.

Opposites/ Antonyms

Some words form their opposites by either adding prefixes or suffixes.

Others form their opposites using totally different words.

Prefixes

A prefix is a group of letters added to the front of a root word to change its meaning. Some examples of prefixes include: im, dis, un, ir, il, in

Examples of opposites formed by adding prefixes:

Possible - Impossible , regular - irregular, happy - unhappy, formal - informal

Can you think of other words that form their opposites using prefixes?

Suffixes

A suffix is a group of letters added to the end of a root word to change its meaning. The most commonly used suffix for opposites is ; Less.

For example:

Taste- tasteless, colour - colourless, odor - odorless

Completely different words

Other words form their opposites using completely different words.

for example;

Happy - sad , tall- short , light - dark.

Can you think of other examples?

Class Activity

Learners' book page 145 Activity C, 2

Watch the video

https://youtu.be/HKev6QbYTVM

Your turn!

Now write a list of opposite words and create your own Conga song.

Conclusion

Review the lesson by emphasizing on the formation of opposites.