SynonymsA synonym is a word similar in meaning to another word.Writers often use a synonym to make a sentence more effective. For example:

After waiting for the bus for over an hour, Mandi felt annoyed, frustrated and infuriated!

Why do you think the writer here eventually chose the word infuriated ?

How is it different from annoyed or frustra ted?

Synonyms ListWe are going to practise creating a list of synonyms. How many synonyms can you jot down for the word sad?

Here are some words tha t could have been used:

gloomy

upset

depressed

heart-broken

morose

miserableunhappy

Synonyms ListWe are going to practise forming our own list of synonyms.

On the next few slides, you will see a selection of words.

When you read a word, write down words that have the same meaning. Jot down as many as you can.

Using SynonymsWe are going to practise using synonyms to improve a sentence.

For example: Liam felt scared during the horror movie.

You could have written:

Liam felt petrified during the horror movie.

Liam felt terrified during the horror movie.

Liam felt horrified during the horror movie.

Write down synonyms for the word scared then rewrite the above sentence.

Using Synonyms

Shamir won the race.

Write down synonyms for the word won then rewrite the above sentence.

Using Synonyms

Vascal was worried about the upcoming Maths test.

Jot down any synonyms of worried then rewrite the above sentence.

SynonymsCan you find synonyms for the bold words in this extract? Write them in the boxes.

If you can’t think of a synonym, use a thesaurus to help you.

Chapter OneFar Too Young to be a Hero

Death was coming. It would fall from the skies like a hail of deadly meteors – not dropped by

some malevolent force from outer space, but spawned from the iron bellies of Hitler’s deadly

Luftwaffe bombers.

Sirens wailed their nightly warning, conducting a drumbeat of frightened feet across the

pavements of London’s East End. Streams of panicked citizens spewed through the narrow

streets; children screamed their resistance as mothers and fathers hauled them through jostling

crowds. Wardens barked orders and pointed instructions at the hordes, but few people paid

any attention. They were too fearful of the fire and fury that was roaring over the English

Channel towards them. Terror had already turned pretty, young faces into ugly balls of fear,

and the eyes of thousands turned constantly upwards, pulled wide and white by dread.

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