1. Practicing Language
Using Antithesis

2. Single antithesis One antonym on each side of the seeaw Pairwork:
Step 1: write down a pair of antonyms.
Step 2: make a sentence using this pair of antonyms.
Single antithesis

3. Examples of Single Antithesis
Quotes:
Give me liberty ---- or give me death patrick Henry
Actions！ Not Words! ---- Def leppard
From American Students:
You can’t be happy, if you make others sad.
Talking a lot may express so little.

4. Double Antithesis To err is human, to forgive, divine. err vs. forgive
human vs. divine
Double Antithesis

5. Practice double antithesis
Make a list of antonyms (at least 8 pairs)
Then pick two pairs from the list, and make a sentence in the same pattern.
Life vs. death … love vs. hate… … question vs. answer…
With life comes questions, with death comes the final answer.

6. Examples of double antithesis
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. （Neil Armstrong）
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who a rich. (John Kennedy)
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Man proposes, god disposes.
Burning is the hot sun; frigid is the cold snow.
The first time we quarreled was the last time we spoke.
Love cleans a bad man’s heart, but hatred stains a good man’s soul.

7. AB-BA antithesis
Let’s never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
It is better to fear life than to live a life of fear.
It is fun to learn what you learn for fun.
You must control your emotions or your emotions will control you.
Group word: make your own AB-BA sentence.