Synonyms and Antonyms - Full Grammar Lesson

A full lesson presentation (PowerPoint) teaching the difference between synonyms and antonyms and how to use them in your writing.

Synonyms = words with a similar or the same meaning
Antonym = words with opposite meanings

This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes a full lesson’s worth of activities. The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - your AFL
√ Teaching input - exploring what synonyms and antonyms are, the differences between them and examples of each being used in sentences.
√ Differentiated speaking & listening activities - group/ paired activity (3 ways of differentiation)
√ Differentiated independent tasks (3 ways of differentiation)
√ Reasoning task - applying learning
√ Plenary - Creative application

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.