Meanings and Metaphors - Activities to Practise Figurative Language

Meanings and Metaphors, Activities to Practise Figurative Language contains a collection of vocabulary activities dealing with the use of figurative language. Figurative and metaphorical language takes many forms. Expressions like 'to be at a crossroads', 'to shake like a leaf', idioms like 'to lend a hand' and verbs with simple or metaphorical meanings like 'trickle', or 'blossom' are all examples. 

Each of the 34 photocopiable units has a step by step lesson plan, useful background information, opportunities for cross-cultural comparisons and revision tasks. The material used includes advertisments, newspapers articles, sayings, poems, fables, analogies and rhetoric.