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The document provides a worksheet activity for students to practice identifying adjectives and their antonyms. Students are given sentences and must circle the adjective, then write a new sentence using an antonym from the word bank. The word bank contains common adjective antonyms like dirty/clean, long/short, young/old, slow/fast, and quiet/noisy. Students complete 15 sentences total by writing new sentences that swap the original adjective for its antonym.
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Dr. Surraya Shaffi Mir
Grammar
This document provides an overview of English grammar, including its constituent parts of phonetics, lexicology, and grammar. It defines grammar as the science studying a language's structure, divided into morphology and syntax. Syntax is further explained, including classifications of sentences by purpose (declarative, interrogative, imperative) and structure (simple, compound, complex). Examples are provided to illustrate different sentence types and transformations.
Figures of Speech.pptx
This document provides guidance on conducting interviews. It outlines the steps to take before, during, and after an interview. Some key points include preparing questions in advance, being flexible and asking follow-up questions during the interview, maintaining eye contact with the interviewee, and thanking them after by sending a card or small gift. The overall purpose is to help students properly structure and conduct an effective interview.
CONTEXT CLUES - Copy.pptx
This document contains a thought for the day activity involving matching expressions to their visual representations through connecting lines. It also contains reading comprehension questions about context clues. The questions cover identifying context clues, applying context clues to define words, and identifying the type of context clue being used. Context clues discussed include definition/explanation clues, synonym/restatement clues, contrast/antonym clues, and inference/general context clues.
CONTEXT CLUES - Copy.pptx
This document contains a thought for the day activity involving matching expressions to their visual representations through connecting lines. It includes 5 multiple choice questions testing understanding of vocabulary words like "rash", "Jack of all trades", and "intrude" based on context clues in short passages. Context clue types discussed are definition/explanation, synonym/restatement, contrast/antonym, and inference/general context.
Genre Of Text
1. The document describes 7 different genres of text: narrative, recount, spoof, procedure, descriptive, report, and news item.
2. It provides examples of each genre, including summaries of "The Ugly Duckling" narrative, a recount of a scary airplane trip, a spoof about two police officers, instructions for making a flower crown, a description of the author's house, a report about elephant characteristics, and a news item about a man who damaged homes with a bulldozer.
3. The document analyzes the key components of each genre such as orientation, complication, resolution, events, goal, description, and newsworthy details.
Exercise 1 ( english ipda)
The document provides exercises to practice verbs, tenses, pronouns and other parts of speech. It includes 10 sentences where students must identify the correct tense of the verb from a list. It also provides 3 short passages with errors in verb tenses and asks students to underline and correct the errors. Finally, it provides information on pronouns and examples of their correct usage. The exercises are designed to help students practice and improve their understanding and use of verbs, tenses and pronouns in English.
English 6 Grade 6 1st Quarter Week 1 Day 1 to 5
This document provides an English lesson on analyzing sound devices and figurative language in poems. It begins with defining different sound devices like onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance and consonance. Students are then asked to identify examples of these devices in poems. Next, it discusses figurative language such as similes, metaphors and personification. Students practice identifying these in sentences. The last part covers idiomatic expressions, with students inferring the meanings from context clues in a poem and sentences. The purpose is to help students understand and analyze linguistic elements in poems.
Descriptive Writing the most useful tips
This document provides information and tips about descriptive writing. It begins by defining descriptive writing as using details to vividly describe people, places, objects, and events. It then lists several elements that make for effective descriptive writing, including using vivid language, appealing to the senses, showing rather than telling, and using figurative language like similes and metaphors. The document proceeds to give specific tips for writing descriptively, such as focusing on key details and revising work. It also suggests transforming non-descriptive sentences into ones that incorporate more sensory details and figurative language. In the next sections, it provides exercises matching literary devices to their definitions and identifying the senses used in sample sentences.
Class 10 Cbse English Communicative Sample Paper Term 2 2012
Cbse class 10 english communicative SP term 2 2012 - http://cbse.edurite.com/cbse-sample-papers/cbse-sample-papers-for-class-10-english.html
Unit 1 nouns
This document provides information about an English grammar course titled "LCD 120: The Syntactic Structure of English I". It lists the course professor, required text, objective to achieve familiarity with English grammar concepts, syllabus with weekly topics covering parts of speech and sentence structures, course requirements including attendance, homework, quizzes and a final exam.
reading project
Detective Ellie Koo investigates a robbery and assault at the home of a wealthy couple, Evan and Nancy Reed. They were drugged and almost died, while over $500,000 worth of jewelry, cash, and rare stamps were stolen from a hidden wall safe in their bedroom. Ellie examines the crime scene and interviews witnesses to determine who committed this crime.
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Class 10 Cbse English Communicative Sample Paper Term 2 2012
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Adjective antonyms
- 1. Adjective Antonyms Name:___________________________ Adjectives describe nouns. They give information about something or someone that we can discover with our senses. They tell how he/she/it looks, feels, sounds, smells, or tastes. Read the sentence. Circle the adjective. Write the sentence that comes next, using an adjective from the word box that is the antonym of the adjective in the first sentence. Word Box dirty long young slow quiet rich short cheap easy full funny ugly hot dry round 1. The clothes are not clean. The clothes are dirty. 2. The math homework is not hard. 3. The party is not noisy. 4. The man is not poor. 5. The woman is not beautiful. 6. The perfume is not expensive. 7. The car is not fast. 8. The movie is not serious. 9. The ground is not wet. 10. My uncle is not old. 11. His brother is not tall. 12. The world is not flat. 13. They are not hungry. 14. The weather is not cold. 15. The song is not short. Copyright ©2011 K12Reader - http://www.k12reader.com
- 2. Key Name:___________________________ Adjective Antonyms Adjectives describe nouns. They give information about something or someone that we can discover with our senses. They tell how he/she/it looks, feels, sounds, smells, or tastes. Read the sentence. Circle the adjective. Write the sentence that comes next, using an adjective from the word box that is the antonym of the adjective in the first sentence. Word Box dirty long young slow quiet rich short cheap easy full funny ugly hot dry round 1. The clothes are not clean. The clothes are dirty. 2. The math homework is not hard. The math homework is easy. 3. The party is not noisy. The party is quiet. 4. The man is not poor. The man is rich. 5. The woman is not beautiful. The woman is ugly. 6. The perfume is not expensive. The perfume is cheap. 7. The car is not fast. The car is slow. 8. The movie is not serious. The movie is funny. 9. The ground is not wet. The ground is dry. 10. My uncle is not old. My uncle is young. 11. His brother is not tall. His brother is short. 12. The world is not flat. The world is round. 13. They are not hungry. They are full. 14. The weather is not cold. The weather is hot. 15. The song is not short. The song is long. Copyright ©2011 K12Reader - http://www.k12reader.com