Racing to English

Pairs - opposite adjectives 2

CONTENTS

• Some words, because they have two meanings have two opposites, this activity contains sets of word cards with more than one opposite, for example:

light	heavy
light	dark

• Worksheet

ACTIVITY 1 - MATCHING

Give a group of two/three pupils/students the set of cards and ask them to match them.

ACTIVITY 2 - VISIBLE PAIRS (a game for two to four players)

1. Spread out the cards face down on the table.

2. Players take it in turn to turn over ONE of the cards leaving them face up.

3. If any two of the cards match then the player who has just turned over a card can take those two cards.

4. The player with the most cards at the end is the winner.

NOTE

You may need to choose only some of the cards rather than all of them especially for younger learners.

quiet	noisy
quiet	loud
light	heavy
light	dark
easy	difficult
easy	hard
soft	hard
old	new
old	young
tall	short
long	short

Racing to English Worksheet

Opposite adjectives

2

Copy the sentences using one of these words to complete them:

long, easy, loud, quiet, tall, noisy, light, light dark, hard, short, soft, hard, heavy, short

1. It was so _________ in the library that whispering sounded loud.

2. It was so _________ in the factory that I couldn't hear what my boss was saying.

3. The music was so _________ that my ears began to hurt

4. The box was so _________ that a child could carry it.

5. The box was so _________ that it needed five men to lift it.

6. There were five large windows in the room so it was very _________.

7. There was no moon that night so the woods were very _________.

8. The work was so _________ that only one student got the right answer.

9. The work was so _________ that all the children had finished it in five minutes.

10. The bed was so _________ that it felt like sleeping in a cloud.

11. The bed was so _________ I could hardly sleep at all.

12. The man was so _________ that he banged his head on the ceiling.

13. The girl was so _________ she could walk under the table.

14. Her hair was so _________ that it reached her waist.

15. The pencil was so _________ he could hardly hold it.

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