Topic: Create or

expand word clines

Learning English helps students like
you to understand a lot of ideas
and concepts. For you to be better
in that sense, you should know
everything about the beauty of
learning the basics about reading
words, making sense of them and
then eventually, you can form them
together into simple sentences.
What I Know
Fill in the missing letters to describe the
pictures below.
 What’s In
Go back to the past activity, have you felt
these feelings before? Answer the
question below.
Which is more intense? Encircle the correct
answer
1. Hot or Boiling?
2. Cool or Freezing?
3. Hot or Warm?
4. Warm or Boiling?
5. Cold or Cool?
What’s New
A Word Cline is a string
of words arranged in terms of
strength or intensity of
the word/phrase that represents
a certain idea. This shows that
even words may have the same
meaning, there is still a slight
difference between them.
(examples will be seen on the
next page)
 What’s New
1.promise - pledge - vow
2.Chilly - cold  - freezing
3.Flat - shallow - deep - fathomless
4.advise - order - command
5.Mild - warm - hot - boiling –
sweltering
Sometimes, word cline would look
something like these: (look at the
examples below)
 
What’s New
What’s New
Activity 1 Search the differences of the following
words:
1. small and big
small means
while big means
2. big and huge
big means
while huge means
3. huge and gigantic
huge means
while gigantic means
 Activity 2
Based on the past activity, arrange the following
words in a word cline where the least intense
word will be placed on the bottom part of the
line. Write them beside the circles.
words to arrange: huge, small, gigantic, big
Activity 3

Search the differences of the

following words:
1. fabulous and awesome
fabulous means
while awesome means
2. amazing and fabulous
amazing means
while fabulous means
3. excellent and amazing
excellent means
while amazing means
Activity 4
Based on the past activity, arrange the
following words in a word cline where the
least intense word will be placed on the
bottom part of the line. Write them beside
the circles. words to arrange: fabulous,
amazing, awesome, excellent
Activity 5
Search the differences of the following
words:
1. small and large
small means
while large means
2. large and medium
large means
while medium means
3. medium and small
medium means
while small means
 Assessment
Based on the past activity, arrange the
following words in a word cline where
the least intense word will be placed
on the bottom part of the line. Write
them beside the circles.
words to arrange: large, small,
medium
Enrichment
Choose words with the minimum of
4 and put it on the word cline.
Answer Key
What’s I Know
1. boiling
2. warm
3. hot
4. freezing
5. cool
Answer Key
What’s In
1. boiling
2. freezing
3. hot
4. boiling
5. cold
 Answer Key
Activity 1
1. small – having comparatively little size or
slight dimensions
big – large or great in dimensions, bulk, or
extent
2. big – large or great in dimensions, bulk,
or extent
huge – very large or extensive
3. huge – very large or extensive
gigantic – exceeding the usual or
expected
Answer Key
Activity 2
arrangement: small,
big, huge, gigantic
Answer Key

Activity 3
1. fabulous - WONDERFUL, MARVELOUS
awesome - TERRIFIC, EXTRAORDINARY
2. amazing - causing astonishment, great
wonder, or surprise
fabulous - WONDERFUL, MARVELOUS
3. excellent - very good of its kind
amazing - causing astonishment, great
wonder, or surprise
Answer Key
Activity 4
arrangement of words:
excellent, amazing,
fabulous, awesome
Answer Key
Activity 5
1. small – having comparatively little size or
slight dimensions
large - exceeding most other things of like
kind especially in quantity or size
2. large - exceeding most other things of like
kind especially in quantity or size
medium - something in a middle position
3. medium - something in a middle position
small – having comparatively little size or
slight dimensions
Answer Key
Assessment
arrangement of words:
small, medium, large
 Answer Key

Enrichment
(children will make
their own word cline)