Chapter 5  Sense Relations ——Antonymy

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Contents: antonymy, hyponymy, semantic field 

Objectives: 

1.Analyze different sense relations among English words and their rhetoric features. 

2.Cultivate the students’ ability to analyze and comprehend different texts and discourses with the information in this part

Difficult points: types of antonyms, some of the characteristics of antonyms, the use antonyms, hyponymy, semantic field 

Procedures: 

Step I  Brief review of the last lecture 

Step II  Presentation 

1.Gave students some pairs of antonyms and ask them to discuss in pairs  with the purpose to find their features in each type. 

2.Detailed explanation and discuss of the features of antonyms. 

3.Explain hyponymy and the purpose of using it. 

4.Explain the basic information of semantic field.

Step III Answer students’ questions 

Step IV Homework 

Step IV Assign homework

Exercises

4.      Put the following words under Contradictory terms, contrary terms, and relative terms.

right—left     lend—borrow    male—female     same—different

small—large    doctor—patient    dog—bitch     teacher—pupil

good—bad     man—woman    love—hate        boss—employee

5.      To each of the following contrary terms add the rest of the scale as indicated by the lines. Refer back to the section concerning Contrary terms.

1)      ____ | ____ |hot| ____ | ____ |____ | ____ |cold| ____

2)      ______ |interesting| _______ | _______ |boring| ______

3)       ____ | ____ |good| ____ | ____ | ____ | ____ |bad| ____

6.      Finish John’s utterances with the missing word, so that he contradicts Jane every time.

1)      Jane: The newspapers very seldom tell lies.

      John: No, they very ______ tell lies.

2)      Jane: French is a very hard language.

     John: No, it’s a very _______ language.

3)      Jane: The water is very hard here.

      John: No, it isn’t, it’s quite _______

4)      Jane: You should put the blanket over him.

      John: No, it’s better to put it _______ him.

5)      Jane: A general is below a colonel in rank.

      John: No, he isn’t. he’s ______him.

6)      Jane: Potatoes are scare just now.

      John: No, they’re quite ______.

7)      Jane: I have very forward opinions on most things.

      John: On the contrary, your opinions are rather_____. 

Key:

4.  contradictory terms        contrary terms         relative terms

male—female             small—large                 right—left

dog—bitch                 good—bad                   lend—borrow

same—different          love—hate                   doctor—patient

man—woman                                                 teacher—pupil

                                                                      boss—employee

5.  1) boiling | very hot | hot | quite hot | warm | tepid | cool | cold | freezing

2) fascinating | interesting | fairly interesting | rather boring | boring | very boring

3) marvelous, fabulous | very good | very good | good | quite good | OK | not very good | mediocre | bad | awful, dreadful

6.   1)  often    2)  easy   3)  soft     4)  under    5)  above    6)  plentiful    7)  backward