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Unit1 Careers and skills 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. ¡ªRobert 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:

Bob runs as quickly as a deer.

By comparing Bob to a deer, his speed 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 \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:

\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.