Adjective Opposites ESL Activities, Worksheets and Games

ESL Opposite Adjectives Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Gap-fill, Matching, Crossword - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work In this productive 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. show less

ESL Opposite Adjectives Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Group and Pair Work In this insightful adjective opposites activity, students complete 'Do you prefer...?' questions with opposite adjectives and then talk about their preferences. First, in two groups, students complete 'Do you prefer...?' questions with opposite adjectives. Next, students read each question and underline the adjective they prefer, e.g. 'Do you prefer wearing black clothes to white clothes?' Students then pair up with someone from the other group and take turns asking their partner each question. If their partner prefers the same adjective, the student ticks the question. If their partner prefers a different adjective, the student writes down their partner's answer in the corresponding column. Finally, students report back to the class on which preferences they share with their partner. show less

ESL Opposite Adjectives Activity - Vocabulary: Word Search, Asking and Answering Questions, Providing Antonyms, Forming Sentences - Pair Work In this memorable 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'. show less

ESL Opposite Adjectives Activity - Vocabulary: Matching, Gap-fill - Pair Work In this enjoyable 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. show less

ESL Adjective Opposites Activities - Vocabulary Game: Forming Sentences - Group Work - Writing Activity: Writing Sentences, Story Writing - Pair Work These free adjective opposites activities help to increase students' knowledge of adjectives and their opposites. Read an adjective at random from the worksheet. The first team to call out the opposite of the adjective scores a point. For an extra point, the winning team then uses the opposite adjective in a sentence. All the students then write down the adjective opposite on their worksheet. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins. Working alone, students then write ten sentences using two adjectives from the worksheet in each sentence, e.g. 'The tall man drove a black car'. Next, in pairs, students read their partner's sentences, changing the adjectives in the sentences to their opposites, e.g. 'The short man drove a white car'. Afterwards, the pairs write a short story using ten adjectives from the worksheet. show less

ESL Opposite Adjectives Game - Vocabulary: Matching In this fun opposite adjectives game, students listen to adjectives and match them to their opposites. Call out adjectives from the caller's sheet in a random order. If students have the opposite of the adjective on their card, they cross it off. When a student has crossed off all nine adjectives, they shout 'Bingo'. The student then reads out the nine adjectives, saying both the adjective and its opposite. If the adjective opposites are correct, the student wins the round. If the student makes a mistake, the game continues. Play several rounds with students receiving a different bingo card each time. As an alternative or extension, students play the game in groups with students taking it in turns to be the bingo caller. show less

ESL Adjective Opposites Activities - Vocabulary: List Completion, Providing Antonyms, Guessing, Matching - Pair Work This useful adjective opposites worksheet and game helps students to identify and memorise common adjectives and their opposites. First, students use adjectives from a box to complete an adjective opposites list. Next, in pairs, students read adjective cards and write the opposite of the adjective on each card. Students then place the cards in a pile. One student picks up a card and reads the adjective on the card to their partner who tries to guess the opposite of the adjective. If their partner guesses correctly, the student gives them the card and moves on to the next one. If not, the card is placed at the bottom of the pile and the two students swap roles. The student with the most cards at the end wins. As an extension or variation, students play a pelmanism game with the set of adjective cards and opposite cards. Students take it in turns to turn over one card from each set. If the two adjectives match to make an adjective and its opposite, the student keeps the two cards and has another turn. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. show less

ESL Adjective Opposites Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Error Correction, Gap-fill Here is a comprehensive adjective opposites worksheet for intermediate students. First, students unscramble letters to make adjectives and then match each adjective with its opposite. Next, students write slightly more difficult adjectives from a box next to their opposites. Students then underline the correct adjectives in sentences. After that, students correct adjective mistakes in sentences. Lastly, students complete gap-fill sentences with suitable adjectives from the worksheet. show less

ESL Adjective Opposites Board Game - Vocabulary: Naming Opposites and Synonyms - Group Work In this free adjective opposites board game, students name adjectives that have a similar or opposite meaning to another adjective. Players take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a player lands on a square, the student to their right looks at the category on the square and takes a card from the corresponding pile. The student then reads the clue on the card to the player. For the 'similar' category, the player has to name a specific adjective that is similar in meaning to another adjective. For the 'opposite' category, the player has to say the opposite of a given adjective. If the player answers correctly, they stay on the square. If not, the player goes back two squares. The first student to reach the finish wins the game. show less

ESL Adjective Opposites Activities - Vocabulary Game: Providing Antonyms, Forming Sentences - Group Work - Writing Activity: Story Writing - Pair Work This engaging set of adjective opposites activities helps to increase students' knowledge of more advanced adjectives and their opposites. First, read out each adjective on the worksheet and elicit examples of the adjective's meaning and possible synonyms. Next, read an adjective at random from the worksheet. The first team to call out the opposite of the adjective scores a point. The winning team can then score an extra point by making an appropriate sentence with the adjective opposite. Afterwards, all the students in the class write down the adjective opposite on their worksheet. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins. Working alone, students then write ten sentences using two adjectives from the worksheet in each sentence. In pairs, students then exchange sentences with their partner and read the sentences, changing the adjectives to their opposites. Finally, pairs create a story with ten adjectives from the worksheet. show less

ESL Adjective Opposites Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Gap-fill, Word Search, Matching - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work Here is an insightful adjective opposites worksheet for upper-intermediate students. First, students complete sentences with adjectives from a box. Next, students find the opposite of each adjective in a word search and write it next to the matching sentence. Students then complete sentences with the opposite adjectives. Lastly, students complete conversation questions with adjectives from the worksheet and then ask and answer the questions with a partner. show less