Idioms, similes and metaphors

Here are the resources and activities from a lesson dedicated to idioms, similes and metaphors.

1. Handout outlining what idioms, similes and metaphors are (difference between .... handout)

2. Use learn-English-today.com to look up some idioms to do with the body (idioms to do with the body)

3. Have a look at the poetry to identify metaphors and some similes (A Simile Like Love and Poems)

4. Finally, write your our own similes and metaphors. Choose a picture and try and think of lots of descriptive words.  You can then create similes using the descriptive words. Finally describe the object in your picture using a metaphor. An example using ice-cream is the first picture in the similes exercise document.