Colegio De San Gabriel Arcangel

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Detailed Lesson Plan

In

ENGLISH III
ANTONYMS

Prepared by:
Michelle B. Andeza
BEED 3-1
Noted by:
Professor Julieta E. Siclon

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Objectives
At the end of the lesson the Grade III pupils should be able to:
a) give the antonym of the given word
b) construct their own sentences using an antonym word
c) show willingness in participating group activity.

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Subject Matter
Antonyms
Reference: Across Boarders: Through Language, Integration Across the Curriculum English Series II (pp.199-201)
By: Erlinda L. Nalugon
Lourdes M. Ribo
Materials: Visual Aids, Pictures, Bag and Book

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Procedure
Teachers Activity

Pupils Activity

A. Preliminary Activity
1.

Drill: Antonyms

Class, tell me if the pair of words I will flash is Boys-girls (different), big-small (different),
having the same meaning or not.
happy-glad (the same), beautiful-pretty
(the same)
2.

Review

Last week we learned about synonym.

Can you give me examples of synonyms?

3.

Motivation

Selected pupils will give

examples of synonyms.

their

own

See-look
pretty-beautiful
Smart-bright
house-home
Evil-bad
fast-quick

Class look around the classroom, there are some

butterflies that carries a hidden word around the
room. Those who can get the butterflies will go in
front and group themselves according to the size
Pupils will group the butterfly according to
of the butterfly.
its sizes:

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Unlocking of difficulties:

Based on the given words in the butterflies.

Fat is the opposite of thin which means big in size
of the body, hot means having high temperature,
old is the opposite of young, wet is the opposite of
dry and sad is the opposite of happy which is
associated with grief or unhappiness.
Use the words in your own sentences.

B. Presentation of New Lesson

1. Our topic for today are words that are opposite
in meaning. What do we call these words? Who can
Fat-thin
Hot-cold
guess? Anyone?
Old-young wet-dry
Sad-happy
What is an antonym?
Please read our definition.
2. Discussion

Lets go back to the given words written in the

two groups of butterflies.
Class, what
butterflies?

have

you

notice

about

Pupils give their own sentences.

the

Ok, Lets first reveal all the words in small

butterfly and read it.

Maam its antonyms.

And then in big butterflies we open one by one.

The first butterfly. Please read.
What do you think is the opposite word of fat?

Antonym is word that means the opposite

of another word.

The third butterfly. Please read.

What do you think is the opposite word of wet?
The third butterfly. Please read.
What do you think is the opposite word of old?
The fourth butterfly. Please read.
What do you think is the opposite word of hot?

The butterflies are big and small.

The pupils will read the words.
Thin, cold, young, dry, sad, short.

The last butterfly. Please read.

What do you think is the opposite word of happy?
Fat.
I have here a book to show you some example of
The opposite word of fat is thin.
the words and its antonyms. Please read and
observe.
Wet.
The opposite word of wet is dry.
Old.
The opposite word of old is young.

Hot.
The opposite word of hot is cold.

Happy.
The opposite word of happy is sad.

The pupils will read.

To add some of our vocabularies I put something
in a table.
What have you seen class?

We saw a pink bag pack.

Ok, inside this bag pack is a picture and word.

The pupils will get in the box and tell what
You will get one and tell the class what it is. And
did she get and she call one of her
then you can call any of your classmates to give
classmate to give the antonym and then
the antonym word and use it in a sentence.
use it in a sentence.

C. Generalization
What are antonyms?

Antonyms are word that means the

opposite of another word.

D. Practice/Enrichment Exercises
D.1 Now, we will have our group activity. We
will divide you into four (4) groups. We will give (The pupils will count one (1) to four (4)
and go to their respective group.)
each group an envelope.
The first group to finish the activity will
choose a representative to discuss their work and
then the teacher will check if their answer is all
right then their group will be declared as a winner. Answer:
Activity Sheet

D.2 In your own sheet of paper write a word and

its antonyms and use it in a sentence

Pupils own words, antonyms and
sentences:
1. Little- Big: The house of the old man is as
big as a mansion.
2. Ugly-Pretty: The girl in the pink dress is
pretty.
3. Dirty-Clean: Mother clean the house
before she went to market.
4. Fat-Thin: Misha is a very thin child.

E. Application
Antonym Bingo Game
Choose a word posted on the board and
write it on your bingo card that will give to you. I
will read aloud the antonym word of it. If you
have the corresponding word in a box, mark the
box with an X. The first pupil to mark all the word
in her bingo card wins.

Antonym Bingo Card

Word Posted on the board:

Above
absent accept
admit
Bad
bitter beg
best
Cool
cruel
catch
cheerful
Dark
day
death
dirty
Dwarf
Empty evil
first

F. Infusion of value/Valuing Process

I have here a picture of a two girls, one is white
skin color girl and a black skin color girl. What can The two girls differ in their skin color. The
you say about the picture? What should we keep in girls or any people are created by God
unique and different from each other so we
mind?
should respect them and love them.
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Evaluation Technique
A. Give the antonyms of the given words,

Test A
WORDS

B. Construct your own sentences using the

antonym word.

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Assignment

Down
Stand
North
Stop
Wild
Top
Give
Find
Many
Forget

ANTONYMS

Think of a place you have seen or heard about.

Then, think of another place that is opposite in Pupils will comply their homework- five
beauty, cleanliness or other characteristic. Write a sentence-paragraph comparing the two
five sentence- paragraph comparing these two places they have seen, heard or visited.
places.

Prepared by:
Michelle B. Andeza
BEEd 3-1