Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in English 8

Prepared by: Rhea Gantalao

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

a. define antonyms;
b. identify the given word with its antonym;
c. use antonyms in sentences .

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Antonyms

Reference: English Communication Arts and Skills Through Afro- Asian

Literature. Milagros G. Lapid, Josephine B. Serrano. PP. 13-
15

Materials: Pictures and Printed texts

III. Procedures

• Routine Activities
• Prayer
• Roll Call (Attendance)
• Review of the Past Discussion

*There will be a brief review about synonyms.

Synonyms- are words that mean the same or almost the same.

Directions: Put an X mark beside the word that doesn’t belong to the group.

1. youthful juvenile senile

2. look believe stare

3. squat relax rest

4. fortune lack luck

5. praise invite glorify

A. Motivation

The teacher will show the following pictures:

The girl is sad. The girl is happy.

Cindy’s room is clean. Jessa’s room is messy.

The sky is dark. The sky is bright.

Rico is tall. John is short.

The family is rich. The family is poor.

Follow- up questions:

1. What have you notice in each pair of sentence/ picture?

2. How about the underlined words?

3. Does it have the same thought with the other sentence?

4. Or are they opposite with each other?

5. What do you call these words?

B. Activity

There will be words displayed in the board with missing pairs. The teacher will
instruct the students to look for it under their chairs. Some will find word cards and
some will find none.

After the students find the cards, they will put it beside the corresponding
antonym.

• reduce • raise

• careful • reckless

• childish • mature

• sure • doubtful

• comfortable • uncomfortable

C. Analysis

The students will be asked if what is the opposite of:

1. difficult (challenging, easy, demanding)

2. relax (tense, chill, unwind)

3. begin (launch, finish, start)

4. rapid (fast, speedy, slow)

5. soft (gentle, cottony, rough)

D. Abstraction

Antonyms- are words that mean the opposite or nearly the opposite.

examples: love- hate

cry- laugh

dark- bright

quiet- loud

healthy- sick

The prefixes in-, un-, dis-, mis- and the suffix –less may be added to root
words to form their antonyms.

examples: tolerant- intolerant

satisfactory- unsatisfactory

comfort- discomfort

lead- mislead

thoughtful- thoughtless

* The students will give more examples.

E. Application

1. Divide the class into four groups.

2. Each group will be given an activity paper to work on.

3. After, report it in class.

Directions: Write an antonym from the word box to replace the underlined
words.

never full float sometimes messy old

1. If you drop a potato in water, it will sink.

2. Carl always finishes his homework night after school.

3. The milk carton in our fridge is empty.

4. My mother bought a new red vase.

5. Sheena’s bedroom is very clean.

IV. Assessment

Directions: Write on the blank the antonyms of the underlined words. Choose
from the box below.

1. Mang Jose is a wealthy farmer who is respected by people in the

village.

2. The old woman told her son to light the lamp.

3. It is very hot though a breeze is beginning to blow in from the sea.

4. His farmhouse is located high above the seashore while the rice field is on the
ground the mountains.

5. The best thing now is to set the rice on fire in order to prevent the that
may happen.

worst young poor cold

under warm high strong

V. Assignment

Directions: Give the antonyms of the following words and use it in

meaningful sentences.

1. hot 4. lazy

2. cheap 5. never

3. hard