One of the various semantic tasks that I carry out with my patients at times is an exercise where you have to find the 'things that are related '.
This could include things like 'apple and orange are both fruits', or 'skirt and trousers are both clothes'. The trick is to find the shared category.
Another related task is 'opposites', where you find the pairs that are linked by being opposites to each other, such as 'hot and cold', 'tall and short' etc.
Over the last few weeks it has occurred to me that such pairings can often be found in the news, so I am going to keep my eyes open for these now, and any that other people notice would be appreciated for my list. Ideally they will combine the two activities, for example:
Rescues: Chilean miners- successful / Hostage- unsuccessful
Manchester money: Wayne Rooney- multimillionaire / public sector workers -skint
Please do let me know of any others you find out there.
Maybe they won't all highlight the awfulness of the negative one quite as much as these do, but I shall be interested to find out
