Opposite/Antonym Pairs Card Game
There are 28 pairs of opposites/antonyms here (for a total of 56 cards) that can be used to play
the games Fish and Memory. Students have to find the opposite card to the one that they have.
The opposite pairs covered here are:
up/down, left/right. hard/soft, west/east, north/south, first/last, in/out, over/under, fast/slow,
tall/short, long/short, fat/thin, thin/thick, high/low, near/far, happy/sad, clean/dirty, right/wrong,
easy/difficult, front/back, top/bottom, young/old, cold/hot, stron/weak, big/small, dry/wet, and
heavy/light.
You can use the game Fish or memory to practice this game. Fish goes likes this:
A: (Has the card for 'fast') Do you have slow?
B: Yes, I do. (No, I don't)
If the answer was yes, B gives the card to A and A gets a point. If the answer was no, A takes a
card from the deck.
Note: there are two opposites for short, right and thin. Students have to match the appropriate
opposite to get the point in those cases.