This document provides instruction and examples for developing vocabulary skills through identifying synonyms, antonyms, and using semantic mapping. It includes a reading passage about grasses and comprehension questions. Activities include supplying antonyms for underlined words in sentences, identifying pairs of antonyms in example sentences, writing antonyms for underlined words, and completing independent practice and application exercises with antonyms.

1. Review
Find the synonyms of the underlined word in
each sentence.
a. H-fever is contagious. It’s transferable.
b. The patient was alone in a room. Dr. Ruiz
told him he must be isolated.
c. When offered some fresh fruits. Tino
refused. He did not take any of them
because he felt ill.
d. Children should avoid quarreling. Fighting
does not help them find friends.
e. The program started at 4:00 in the
afternoon. It began with the prayer.

2. Vocabulary Development
Develop the vocabulary through semantic map
. What comes into your minds when you hear
the word grass?
Motivation
Let the pupils look outside.
What can you say about the surroundings?
Why it is look green?
GRASS

3. Presentation
Read the paragraph silently
Grasses
There are 4500 different species of grass. They
can grow well both in hot and cold countries. The
most useful cereals such as corn, wheat, rice and
oats are true grasses. They have been cultivated by
man so they can be used as food.
The tallest grasses can grow as high as 100 feet.
This is the bamboo. It grows in warm countries.
The shortest grasses can be found in the Arctic
Region. These are only one or two inches tall.

4. The tallest grasses can grow as high as 100 feet.
This is the bamboo. It grows in warm countries.
The shortest grasses can be found in the Arctic
Region. These are only one or two inches tall.
Grasses serve as food for cattle, horses and
sheep. One member of the grass family, the sugar
cane, gives us sugar, vinegar and alcohol, while the
bamboo is used for building houses, making
furniture, mats and baskets. The bamboo shoot is
used for food. Other kinds of grasses are used as
decorations.
Grasses help stop soil erosion. Its roots hold
the soil together so that the wind and water will not
wash it away. Indeed, grasses are useful to man.

5. Comprehension Check-up
- What is the most useful species?
- How are grasses being used as food?
- What is the tallest grass that can grow as
high as 100 feet?
- How are grasses help us?
Skill Focus
Read the following sentences taken from
the story.
a. Grasses can grow well both in hot and cold
countries.
b. The tallest grasses can grow as high as 100
feet. The shortest grasses can be found in
the Arctic region.

6. Analysis /Discussion
What have you noticed in each sentence?
What are the underlined words?
How are the pair of words formed??
Are they the same in meaning?
What do you call these words?
Generalization
What are antonyms?
 Antonyms are words that are opposite in
meaning.

7. Guided Practice
Supply the antonym of the underlined word
needed in the sentence.
Many natives believed it was impossible for
the visitors to reach the peak of Bud Bangao but
Pilar, Laila, Tony and Cris proved it was ______. It
was a hard climb to the peak. To walk up a
slippery cliff is not ______. At one time, they
wanted to discontinue their trek but they decided
to _____ to hard climb. At first the monkeys were
unfriendly but when they saw “guardian” they
became _______. To the successful climbers,
Bud Bangao has become a reality. It was no
longer a _______.

8. Independent Practice
Write on the blank the antonyms of the underlined
words. Choose from the box below.
1.Hamaguchi was a wealthy farmer loved and respected
by ____ people in the village.
2.The old man told his ___ grandson to light him a torch.
3. It was very hot though a _____ breeze was beginning
to blow in from the sea.
4. His farmhouse is located high above the seashore
while the rice field was on the ground that was _____.
5.The best thing now is to set the rice on fire in order to
prevent the _____ that may happen.
worst young poor cold
under warm high strong

9. Application
Group Activity
1. Divide the class into 4 groups.
2. Each group will be given an activity card
to work on.
3. After, post your output.

10. Evaluation
Write an antonym from the word box to
replace the underlined.
1. If you drop a potato in water, it will sink.
2. Tim always finishes his homework right after
school.
3. The milk carton in the fridge is empty.
4. My uncle brought a new pick up truck.
5. My bedroom is usually very clean.
never full float sometimes missy old

11. Assignment
Give the antonyms of the following words.
1. hot 4. lazy
2. cheap 5. never
3. hard