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Unit 1 Grammar and usage 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 winters night. 2. You are like a hurricane: theres calm in your eye, but Im 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 dont 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