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L.O. To generate synonyms for high frequency words. Day 1 Synonyms L.O. To generate synonyms for high frequency words. Understand the term synonym Match up synonyms Suggest synonyms for common words.

Similar means almost the same but with a small difference. What is a synonym? A synonym is a word that has a similar meaning to another. Example. good fine okay Similar means almost the same but with a small difference. Can you describe the difference between the words?

Can you match up the synonym pairs? huge soggy hot big wet ill sick warm

How can we use synonyms? Synonyms can be used instead of common words (high frequency words.) Common words lack power in our writing. They can make our writing boring. By choosing more unusual words a text can become interesting.

Improve the text with synonyms. It was a nice hot day. Tom went down the road. The dog was big.

Take time to consider more than one synonym Take time to consider more than one synonym. They have different shades of meaning, different effects. big How many synonyms for big can you think of with your R.P.? Can you order the synonyms from the biggest to smallest?

Using a thesaurus A thesaurus is a book which lists words alphabetically in a similar way to a dictionary. Beside each word entry is a list of synonyms.

aback aback adverb taken aback SEE surprised. abandon verb 1 to abandon ship. desert, evacuate, forsake, leave, quit, withdraw from. 2. to abandon a plan cancel, (slang) chuck in, discard, discontinue. 3. to abandon a friend drop, jilt, strand, was your hands of.

L.O. To generate synonyms for high frequency words. Understand the term synonym Match up synonyms Suggest synonyms for common words. Tasks Guided Synonym matching cards. Thesaurus investigation

Plenary. Use the synonyms for bad to complete this passage. Late one night I heard a bad noise - what could it be? Was is some bad creature doing a bad deed? As I went to investigate I could smell something bad, and I wondered what bad thing could have happened. All the bad things I could think of filled my mind, and as a I crept round the corner I saw a bad sight… It was a ______________ ! dreadful horrible terrible awful evil gruesome nasty vile hideous