Word skills adjectives opposites i can use a variety of adjectives

In this adjective opposites worksheet, students practice a variety of common adjectives and their opposites. To begin, students complete sentences with adjectives from a box. Next, students write adjectives from a box next to sentences containing their opposites. After that, students read clues and complete an adjective opposites crossword. Students then complete conversation questions with suitable adjectives. Finally, students take turns asking and answering the questions with a partner.

In this adjective opposites activity, students find adjectives in a word search and then work with a partner to match each adjective with its opposite. To begin, students find ten adjectives in a word search and write them in the ‘My adjectives’ column on their worksheet. Students then work with their partner and take it in turns to ask for the opposite of each adjective, e.g. ‘What’s the opposite of beautiful?’ Their partner looks for the opposite of the adjective in their list and replies accordingly, e.g. ‘The opposite of beautiful is ugly’. The two students then write the opposite adjective in the ‘Adjective opposites’ column. Afterwards, students make sentences using each adjective and its opposite, e.g. ‘My phone was expensive, but my pen was cheap’.

In this adjective opposites activity, students listen and complete sentences with opposite adjectives. Explain that Pat and Pete are two men who are opposites in every way and that one student has information about Pat and the other has information about Pete. In pairs, students then complete sentences about Pat and Pete using opposite adjectives. Students take turns reading out sentences in italics to their partner, who listens and completes each corresponding sentence with the opposite adjectives from their worksheet. The activity continues until both students have completed all the sentences with opposite adjectives to their partner. When the students have finished, check the answers as a class.