Teaching Aims:

1. Students are expected to learn simile and metaphor.

2. Enable students to understand and use.

Teaching Important and difficult Points:

Develop the students’ ability of using simile and metaphor.

Teaching Methods:

Explanation and exercise

Teaching Procedures:

Step1 lead-in

A simile:

My love is like a red, red rose. -Robert Burns

A metaphor

It’s raining cats and dogs.

An idiom

No news is good news.

A euphemism

Senior citizens are respected in our country.

figurative language

Step 2: Simile:

What is a simile?

A simile is a comparison of two different objects that are not usually thought to be similar.

What words are used in similes?

As and like.

How to make a simile effective?

Readers must be familiar with the objects being compared.

Analyse the following similes:

using as:

Similarly, many ordinary jobs may look dull, but they are essential as water to our sciety.

By comparing these jobs to water, the importance of these jobs is emphasized and made more obvious.

using like:

He loved camping, and his job was

like a holiday for him.

Here the job is compared to holiday to express the person really enjoys his work and finds it relaxing.

More similes for you to enjoy:

1. The day we passed together for a while seemed a bright fire on a winter's night.

2. You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye, but I'm getting blown away.

3. You are as blind as a bat.

4. he is as happy as a clark.

5. I’m not as timid as a rabit.

Step 3 metaphor

What is a metaphor?

Metaphor is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison.

Metaphors:

As a business person, you can’t be a mouse. You have to be a tiger.

You can’t be a timid person. You should be a brave person.

For lawyers, a courtroom is a battlefield.

A lawyer is compared to a fighter. He must fight to win cases here.

Going to work everyday became a chore for him, and he could hardly wait to find a new and exciting job.

Work is compared to a chore. This work is boring and the speaker is tired of it.

More metaphors for you to enjoy:

"I am a rainbow" is a example of metaphor because it is comparing two nouns, a person, and a rainbow, but does not use like or as.

Homework:

1. Read the points on Page 8 and finish C1 on Page 96 in Workbook.

2. Preview the Task part.