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. —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:
