Adjectives of Appearance - B1 Antonyms

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Mastering opposites is an essential step in building rich descriptions and making relevant comparisons. This activity sheet focuses on adjectives of appearance to help your students think in opposition. Through a clear and visual matching game, they anchor their vocabulary logically and effectively. This is an excellent exercise for developing lexical precision and preparing students for more complex productions.

In short

CEFR level :B1

Class level :Level 4, Level 5

Type :Exercices and Worksheets

Cultural themes :Everyday Life

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Assess your students' knowledge with this ready-to-use worksheet, designed to reinforce grammar and vocabulary points.

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Pedagogical Guide

Resource Objective & Content

The objective is to consolidate and broaden students' vocabulary for describing appearance by identifying and matching antonymous (opposite) adjectives.

The document is an exercise titled "Antonyms Game" on the theme "Adjectives of Appearance". Students must connect eight pairs of words with opposite meanings. The vocabulary covers notions of aesthetics (attractive/unattractive), texture (smooth/rough), cleanliness (clean/dirty, tidy/untidy), brightness (shiny/dull, bright/dark), and shape (straight/curly, thick/thin). This activity helps students think in terms of contrasts, a key skill for description.

Suggested Procedure

Before the Activity (~5 min): OPPOSITES GAME

Start a quick warm-up by asking the class for the opposite of simple words they already know: "What's the opposite of big? of happy? of hot?". This prepares them for the exercise.

During the Activity (~5-10 min): FIND THE OPPOSITES

Hand out the sheet. Emphasize that they must look for the opposite (the opposite) and not the synonym.
Allow students, individually or in pairs, to connect the pairs of antonyms.
Lead a collective correction, ensuring correct pronunciation.

After the Activity (~10 min): COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Show two contrasting images (e.g., a tidy room and a messy room, a person with straight hair and another with curly hair).
Ask students to describe the differences using the antonym pairs from the sheet. For example: "This room is tidy, but that room is untidy."

Adaptations

To simplify: Pre-teach the most difficult words using images or objects (e.g., show a shiny object and a dull object) before starting the exercise.
To extend: Challenge students to write comparative sentences that use both adjectives from the same pair (e.g., "My hair is straighter than my sister's hair, which is very curly.").