deafening earsplitting loud immense spacious roomy

tedious dull uninteresting strenuous laborious exhausting

hearty mighty powerful precise exact correct

glistening dazzling brilliant famished starving underfed

exhilarated delighted glad enticing stimulating exciting

economical inexpensive low-priced compressed cramped thin

hazardous risky unsafe tranquil peaceful silent

customary typical common melancholy downhearted unhappy

chilling frigid cold protected secure guarded

dingy drab unlit pliable comfortable spongy

exorbitant valuable costly extraordinary bizarre unusual

undersized tiny little elevated lofty towering

erroneous incorrect untrue tepid heated hot

saturated crammed packed fragile frail delicate

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Synonyms 2 (Continued)
1. Student ability: Intermediate ~ Advanced
2. Approximate length of lesson: 30+
3. Number of students necessary: Any
4. Preferred age/maturity: HS??, College, Adult
5. Type of lesson: Pair / Group activity
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Language Target: Extended vocabulary
development – finding a common work
for three synonymous adjectives.
Setting Up: This lesson is best used as a
follow up of Synonyms 2 (Lesson
Collection Set #5 – Lesson 1).
Once students have completed
Synonyms 2, go on to Synonyms 2 -
Continued.
To begin, target a simple adjective
such as noisy. Offer a synonym for noisy
such as deafening. See if students can
identify the word noisy from that hint. If
someone says noisy, three points are
awarded. If not, offer a second synonym
such as earsplitting. Again, give them
some time to come up with the word
noisy. If someone says it, award two
points. If they are stumped, offer a third
synonyms such as loud. Now they have
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three synonyms. If someone says noisy
award one point. If no one can identify
the correct synonym, this lesson is
probably too difficult for the students!!.
Usually the third hint is the easiest and
someone should be able to call out the
common synonym: noisy.
Repeat this process a few more times
if necessary until students understand
how the activity works.
Getting Started: Have students pull out
their original Synonyms 2 worksheet.
Then pair or group students and give a
copy of Synonyms 2 - Continued to only
one student in each pair or group. Explain
that these words are synonyms for the
words printed in Synonyms 2 but the
order of the words has been randomized.
For example, the first set: deafening,
earsplitting and loud are synonyms for
the word noisy. On the original list,
however, noisy was the 2nd entry on the
right. Customary, typical and common
are synonyms for the word normal - the
10th entry in the left column on the
original. All of these sets of synonyms
reflect the simple adjectives presented in
the Synonyms 2 worksheet; they’ve just
been rearranged.
These words begin with the most
difficult synonyms on the left. The second
one is less difficult and the third one is
not particularly difficult. As a pair / group
work activity, the student with the
worksheet reads off the first word on the
left. The partner(s) tries to guess what the
simple adjective is. (Students may be
encouraged to have their copies of
Synonyms 2 in front of them to help
reinforce the vocabulary.)
If the partner(s) correctly identifies
the simple adjective from the first
synonym, three points are given. If not,
the second synonym in the set is read. If
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correctly matched, the student gets two
points. If not, the third synonym from the
set is read. If correctly matched, the
student gets one point. When finished, the
student with the most points wins.
Encourage students to write any of the
three synonyms on their copies of
Synonyms 2.
Variation 1: Don’t hand out the Worksheet
at first. Instead, read off the list and have
the students compete against each other
for points.
Variation 2: Demonstrate that many of these
adjectives can be easily converted to
adverbs by adding an -ly. Encourage
students to read through all of the
adjective synonyms making them into
adverbs.
Variation 3: If there is a Thesaurus or two
around, and if students can not identify
the common synonym from the three
hints given, students can offer a fourth
Answers:
-------------Left Column-------------
1. noisy 8. usual
2. boring 9. cool
3. strong 10. dark
4. bright (light) 11. expensive
5. happy 12. small
6. cheap 13. false
7. dangerous 14. crowded
Contributed by Kurt Scheibner
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and/or fifth hint by using the Thesaurus –
which, by the way, is a wonderful way for
students to become familiar with this
marvelous resource book.
Writing Practice: Encourage students to
write short descriptive sentences using
these or other synonyms to enhance their
writing. For example, rather than: The
pretty flower in the pretty garden was
beside the pretty puppy, students could
write: The attractive flower in the
beautiful garden was beside the adorable
puppy.
More Practice: For similar lessons, see:
Synonyms 1
Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 4
Synonyms 1– Continued
Lesson Collection Set #4 – Lesson 28
Synonyms 2
Lesson Collection Set #1 – Lesson 1
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15. wide 22. sad
16. hard 23. safe
17. true 24. soft
18. hungry 25. strange
19. interesting 26. tall
20. narrow 27. warm
21. quiet 28. weak
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