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B. TASKS
1. Complete the following phrases and sentences with one word for each gap: - He’s been avoiding me like … since our quarrel. - She went as white as … when she heard the news. - She arrives every day at five, regular as … . - The new portable computers are going like … . - He is dead, as sure as … . - He was like … before his driving test. - And there she was, as large as … . - The children were as good as … when you were out. - Her skin is still as smooth as … . - The children are as busy as …, helping their mother in the garden.
2. Complete the similes below: - as … as thieves - as … as a mule - as … as a hatter/a March hare - as … as a lamb - as … as dust - as … as a lord - as … as dirt
- as … as an owl - as … as a horse/ox - as … as chalk and cheese - as … as a picture - as … as ABC - as … as sin - as … as a bug in a rug
3. Find and explain examples of metaphorical use: - Do tear yourself from the television and come out for a walk. - International law is a minefield for anyone not familiar with its complexity. - Pity melted her heart. - Overnight trading caused share prices to zoom up. - I tried to sell him my old car, but he wouldn’t bite. - Their house was a great barracks of a place. - The film has been minutely dissected by the critics. - The prospects couldn’t be rosier. - He gave me a frosty look. - His sinister threat chilled all who heard it. - He had to smother a giggle. - His hopes evaporated. - Violence is a cancer in our society. - When I gave a chance, he grabbed it at once.
4. Sort the sentences below into two groups to indicate a positive or a negative meaning: - The car is incredibly, heartstoppingly beautiful. - My own life had been so respectable and sheltered in comparison. - Louise was small but shapely in build. - Don’t be so childish! - It turned out to be the most ghastly place you can imagine. - Tenerife was certainly a disastrous choice. - There’s one really classy hotel, with a pool in a beautiful shady garden, and a decent restaurant. - You never saw such a barren, boring landscape in your life, like the surface of the moon in a heatwave. - Our wedding was a particularly gruesome, with the two sets of totally incompatible relatives grinding and grating against each other. - Those terrible overalls would make anyone look slovenly. - Take no notice of him – you know what a show-off he is. - I swelled with the pride of possession.
5. Study the following examples and explain how the descriptions in them are made so vivid and exciting: - The solution to the mystery burst inside my head like a flare. - I felt like a sponge that had been saturated and squeezed so often it had lost its spring. - He took it as a slap in the face. - They received him with open arms as if he was a long-lost son. - They hadn’t given me a chance to say a word all this time – I was just looking from one to the other like a spectator at Wimbledon. - Maureen was always brimming over with news, gossip, anecdotes, whenever we met. - That was a possibility as remote as flying to the moon. - I feel self-esteem leaking out of me like water from an old bucket. - I sense a storm of depression flickering on the horizon, and a tidal wave of despair gathering itself to swamp me. - The pen is like a tool, a cutting or digging tool, slicing down to the roots, probing the rockbed of memory. - When I finished the course, my obsession returned like a rabid Rottweiler freed from the leash.
6. Read the advertisements and explain the use of pun: - When you decide to give her a ring, give us a ring. (Advertisement for a jeweller’s shop) - For a few pounds you may lose a few. (Advertisement for a slimming course) - Go up in the world. (Advertisement to recruit air stewards and stewardesses) - We’ll give you sound advice. (Hi-fi shop advertisement) - Your views are reflected in the Mirror. (Advertisement for The Mirror newspaper) - Money matters. (Title of the financial section of a newspaper) - It’s good for you, naturally. (Advertisement for fruit juice) - Sea for yourself. (Advertisement to attract recruits to the Royal Navy) - Christmas is a time to think of family ties. Buy ours. (Advertisement for men’s ties) - The weather-men can’t guarantee you an Indian summer, but we can. (Travel agency advertisement)
7. Complete the jokes with puns:
a. – Have you noticed any … in me? – No! Why? – I’ve just swallowed a coin accidentally.
b. – Some girls think I’m handsome and some girls think that I’m horrible. What do you think, Mary? – A bit of both, … .
c. – You have to be rich to play golf. – Then why are there so many … players?
d. – I think we’ve just had a puncture. – How did it happen? – There was a … in the road.
e. – Well, son, how was your first day at the new school? – Great! The teacher is going to give me a gift. – How do you know that? – Well, when I arrived, she pointed to a chair in the corner and said, Sit over there for the … .
f. – Why did you park your car here when it’s forbidden? – But the sign says, … FOR PARKING!
Date: 2014-12-28; view: 2054
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