AccuracyandAppropriateness:SynonymousandAntonymousWordsUnit5

Thescenarioofinstructionprovidedasfollowsisdesignedjustforreference.Theteacherissupposedtocombineillustratingthefocusedpointswithdoingthegivenexercisesintheunit.Unit5

Classroomteachingiscompletelypresupposedonpre-readingthetextoutsideclassroom.I.Lead-inHowdopeopleexpresssimilarmeaningswithdifferentwords?Mainlybyusingsynonymouswordsandexpressions.Howdopeopleexpressoppositemeaningswithdifferentwords?Normally,bythegrammaticalmeansofnegation,thatis,toformanegativesentenceorphrasebyusing“not”.Inaddition,bychoosingantonymouswordsandexpressions.SotheknowledgeofsynonymousandantonymouswordsisessentialforlearninghowtoexpressmeaningsindifferentwayssoastoaddvarietyinEnglishwriting.

Whatdoyouknowaboutsynonymouswords?Givesomeexamplesofsynonymsfromthetext.Lookatthewordstakenfromthetext:expert,toleranceComparethesynonymouswordsinthefollowingsentences.1)Dr.Jamesisaspecialist/anexpertininformationretrieval.2)a.Janehadnotoleranceforjokesofanykind.b.Heshowedremarkableendurancethroughouthisillness.Explainwhyin1)thetwoitalicizedwordscanbereplaceable,whilein2)thetwoitalicizedwordsarenotthoughtheyaresynonymouswords.Inthisunit,wewilllearnhowtousesynonymousandantonymouswordsaccuratelyandappropriatelyinwriting.I.Lead-in

Activatingknowledgemeansmakingwordknowledgelyinginthemindsofstudentsstartworking.II.ActivatingKnowledgeTherearemanykindsofsynonymouswordsinEnglish.Doyouknowhowtoclassifythem?Twotypes:synonymswithsimilarprimarymeanings—somewordsofthisgroupmaybeusedinterchangeably.(e.g.specialistandexpert)synonymswithdifferentprimarymeanings—somewordsofthisgro