WEEK/TERM: THIRD TERM/WEEK 1
DATE: 27.04.2020
CLASS: GRADE 4
SUBJECT: GRAMMAR
TOPIC: ANTONYMS
REFERENCE: THE MASTERING ENGLISH BOOK, UNIT 44, PAGES 89 AND 90.
BRIEF EXPLANATION: Antonyms are words that are opposite in meaning with other words.
Examples
Word Antonym
Here there
Big small
Guilty innocent
Tame wild
Take give
Fat thin
Success failure
Empty full
Solid liquid
Dwarf giant
Bitter sweet
Open close
Absent present
Cheap expensive
Words whose opposites could be formed by the addition of prefixes and suffixes
Examples for prefixes
Words Antonym
Able unable
Like dislike
Aware unaware
Pure impure
Direct indirect
Opposites can sometimes be formed by changing the prefix or the suffix
Word Antonyms
Careful careless
Useful useless
Grateful ungrateful
Helpful helpless
Increase decrease
Exercises/ Assignment
Re-write the sentences below using the opposites of the words underlined.
- The teacher listened to the interesting story.
- The best player is short.
- The poor man refused to see him.
- The bicycle was so new that he bought it.
- That will discourage the dull pupils.
Write down the opposites of the following words:
- Love
- Worst
- South
- Obey
- Friend
- Deep
- Giant
- Succeed
- Narrow
- open