Task 1
Read “The tiny lettering was hard to read”. Replace tiny with another suitable size word or phrase. Then explain why brief would not fit the same meaning.
AC9E4LA11 • Homework
Synonyms, Antonyms and Precise Vocabulary worksheet
Complete eight original vocabulary tasks. Read the supplied source cards, write your own sentences and explain your choices. An adult checks the actual work.
Open practiceEight vocabulary tasks
Use the response space or separate paper. You may dictate through your usual communication support. Source facts are supplied; no outside research or practical experiment is required.
Task 2
Write two original sentences using “bright” in different senses: giving light and being clever. Explain both meanings, then give a suitable opposite for the light sense.
Task 3
Compare annoyed, angry and furious. Write a short scene showing a character becoming more upset. Use all three words and explain their relative strength in your scene.
Task 4
Write two sentences about sharing equipment: one with generous and one with selfish. Explain how their meanings contrast in those situations.
Task 5
Read the NASA-based source card: gravity pulls objects towards one another. Create a word-notebook entry with the word, your own explanation, a new sentence and the source name.
Task 6
Science World word card: attract means draw towards; repel means push away. Write a short imagined observation of two magnets, using one word. Then change the movement in a second sentence using the other word. Explain the difference.
Task 7
State Library of Queensland word card: waratah—plant name; Dharug, Sydney region. Write an original sentence using waratah, and a source note that records this specific origin.
Task 8
Compare these State Library of Queensland word notes: kangaroo—animal name from Guugu Yimidhirr; bilby—animal name from Yuwaalaraay. Write a two-sentence caption for an invented wildlife poster using both words. Add a source note for each origin.
Examples and adult review guidance
Task 1
Example or expected evidence: The very small lettering was hard to read. Brief concerns a short time or a short piece of communication, not the physical size of these letters.
Adult check: Require a natural size replacement and explanation of the mismatched sense. Do not assume every dictionary synonym works in every sentence.
Task 2
Example or expected evidence: The bright torch lit the path. The bright pupil solved the puzzle. The first concerns light and can contrast with dim; the second means clever.
Adult check: Require two clear senses, explanations and a fitting light antonym such as dim. Avoid using a vocabulary task to label real children’s abilities.
Task 3
Example or expected evidence: The character was annoyed by a delay, angry when the plan was ignored, and furious when the work was deliberately destroyed. The words suggest increasing strength of anger here.
Adult check: Require all three words used meaningfully and an explanation. The scene is fictional; do not require every person to react in the same way or treat all emotion words as one universal scale.
Task 4
Example or expected evidence: One character was generous and offered spare pencils. Another was selfish and kept all the shared pencils. Generous sharing contrasts with keeping everything for oneself here.
Adult check: Require two meaningful uses and an explanation tied to sharing. Use invented characters rather than labelling classmates.
Task 5
Example or expected evidence: Word: gravity. Meaning: the pull acting between objects. Sentence: Gravity pulled the dropped ball towards the ground. Source: NASA Space Place.
Adult check: Require all four notebook parts and accurate pull meaning. Accept a different falling-object sentence; this is writing, not a practical investigation.
Task 6
Example or expected evidence: The magnets attracted and moved closer. After one magnet was turned around, they repelled and moved apart. Attract and repel describe opposing directions.
Adult check: Require both words used with the correct direction and an explanation. The observations may be imaginary; no magnets, experiments or electrical equipment are required.
Task 7
Example or expected evidence: A waratah appeared in the gardener’s drawing. State Library of Queensland links the English plant word waratah with Dharug in the Sydney region.
Adult check: Require meaningful plant use and the accurate source/language note. Do not invent pronunciation, literal translation or a claim about every First Nations language.
Task 8
Example or expected evidence: The poster shows a kangaroo near a tree. A bilby is drawn beside a shelter. The library attributes kangaroo to Guugu Yimidhirr and bilby to Yuwaalaraay.
Adult check: Require two meaningful caption sentences, both animal words and their correctly attributed separate origins. Do not claim one language is universal. A drawing or outside research is not required.