FAMILY WORDS: dislike, disliked, dislikes, disliking, likeable, likeably, liked, likeness, likes, likewise, liking, unlike

Learning the Word

1. First, read the entry for LIKE in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Do this very carefully, and try and understand as much as you can from the entry.
2. Look at the way LIKE is used in sentences by clicking LIKE, alike, dislike, disliked, dislikes, disliking, likeable, likeably, liked, likeness, likes, likewise, liking, unlike,
3. (Advanced) Find words with similar meanings to LIKE by using the thesaurus.

Reviewing the Word

Now complete the following cloze activity related to LIKE.

Practising the Word

Take a look at the following page. It reviews the use of 'as' and 'like' in forming similes (a type of comparison)

In your BLOG write an entry about some of the things you like and dislike doing.

Don't forget, there's more practice with LIKE in the Great Animals Vocabulary WIKI.

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