This exercise is summarising personal adjectives and their opposites. It is a follow-up activity, I would not start with this because it is quite hard. -------------------------------- LESSON PLAN - first of all, the students have to know the adjectives. Once they have learnt them, you can start with this activity - it depends how hard you want the exercise to be: a) let the students read the chart as a whole and ask you about any vocabulary they don´t know. After that, create groups or let them stay in pairs. Give them the sheet again, but now its cut version. Their task is to match the adjective with its definition. b) give the students the cut version of the exercise. Let them ask about vocabulary they don´t know (not the adjectives, obviously). Let them match the adjectives with the definitions. -------------------------------- After the activity, they can either check their choice with another pair/group, or you can give them dictionaries to help them. -------------------------------- Moreover, the students can be asked to find the opposites (either in their memory or in the dictionaries). -------------------------------- You should give them approximately 15minutes, but it depends on the class. -------------------------------- It is also a good exercise to talk about dictionaries and the definitions used in them. As the students may notice, some words and definitions look like they belong together (because the adjective is used in the definition) but the context should tell them it is not correct. Of course, it can happen that the adjective is used in its definition. This way, you can practice obscurity, inaccuracy and superfluous components in the dictionaries. Another effect is that the students learn how to work with the dictionary.

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