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Opposites, Starter

20 words for talking about what we do. Print them as cards or turn them into a game.

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20 cards · 10 sheets
big: boy holding big ball; Updatedbig
small: tennis ball under magnifying glass; Updatedsmall
hot: thermometer with flame and steaming cuphot
cold: girl shivering with ice pack on head; illness; also chillscold
wet: dripping shirtwet
dry: shirt on clotheslinedry
clean: sparkling dishesclean
dirty: dirty dishesdirty
full: full pitcher of juicefull
empty: empty pitcherempty
fast: running cheetah with motion linesfast
slow: tortoiseslow
day: sun in blue skyday
night: moon and stars on dark bluenight
long: long strand of yarnlong
short: short strand of yarn; opposite of longshort
heavy: scale with KG weightheavy
light: feather on scale; opposite of heavylight
old: broken wooden cart; opposite of newold
new: shiny carnew
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Flashcards Large teaching cards or small game cards, with or without the word. Bingo Thirty different boards from one set, so a whole class can play. Memory match Picture and word pairs to cut out, turn over and find.
Ideas

Three ways to use these cards

Act it out
Any group size
One child draws a card and mimes it. The others call the word.
Simon says
Whole class
Hold up a card and say "Simon says". Children do the action only when Simon says so.
Chain story
Small groups
Deal the cards. Each child adds a sentence to a story using their card.

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