Family gift suggestions: 'too' and 'enough' practice
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
'Too' plus adjective and 'not enough' plus adjective practice through giving and responding to advice on presents, including useful words for describing relationships, and adjective antonyms
Lesson Plan Content:
Family gift suggestions: 'too' and 'enough' practice
with family vocabulary and adjective opposites
Ask for gift suggestions for someone you know, listen to the ideas, then try to think of a reason for saying those ideas are not so good. Then take turns doing the same.
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Can you recommend a present for my
Can you suggest a gift for my |
father/ dad? mother/ mum? brother? sister? son? daughter? husband? wife? boyfriend? girlfriend? grandfather? grandmother? uncle? aunt? cousin? best friend? |
How about…?
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It’s too It’s not… enough
(S)he’s too (S)he’s not… enough
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expensive cheap big/ large small/ little long/ tall short interesting boring spicy/ hot bland/ tasteless modern old-fashioned heavy light soft hard safe dangerous fast/ quick slow old new loud/ noisy quiet near far easy difficult/ hard thin thick early late weak strong dry wet useful useless fashionable/ trendy unfashionable sweet salty |
Opposites presentation
Match the adjectives on the left with the opposites on the right.
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expensive
big/ large
long/ tall
interesting
spicy/ hot
modern
heavy
soft
safe
fast/ quick
old
loud/ noisy
near
easy
thin
early
weak
dry
useful
fashionable/ trendy
sweet
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bland/ tasteless
boring
cheap
dangerous
difficult/ hard
far
hard
late
light
new
old-fashioned
quiet
salty
short
slow
small/ little
strong
thick
unfashionable
useless
wet |
Family vocabulary presentation
Brainstorm pairs of male and female family members, then look above to check.
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