5-5 Opposite words |
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INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDY
1- watch the video. 2- watch it again repeating after the teacher. 3- read the transcript (optional), see if you understand. 4- watch the video again once or more times until you learn the lesson well. 5- now try to use some objects to reproduce the dialogue (more or less) so you can practise what you just learnt.
These are letters. This is one letter. These are numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4 are numbers. These are letters. 4 is a number. Sometimes it's called a "numeral", but 4 is a number. This is a letter, O, this is the letter O, P, P, O, S, I, T, E.
- How do you say that word? How do you pronounce that word?
- We say "opposite"
- What does that word meaning? What's the meaning of that word?
- We can look it up. I'll show you. If this is one direction, this is the opposite direction.
Words can have opposites.
what's the opposite of "up"? "Down".
high - low
in - out
good - bad
We call those words "opposites".