高中英语Unit 1 Careers and skills Grammar 课件牛津选修11

1、2021/8/11 星期三12021/8/11 星期三2My love is like a red, red rose. Robert Burns A simile:2021/8/11 星期三3A metaphorIts raining cats and dogs.2021/8/11 星期三4an idiomNo news is good news.2021/8/11 星期三5a euphemismSenior citizens are respectedin our country 2021/8/11 星期三6My love is like a red, red rose. Its rain

2、ing cats and dogs.No news is good news.Senior citizens are respected in our country figurative language2021/8/11 星期三7Simile: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 ef

3、fective?Readers must be familiar with the objects being compared. 2021/8/11 星期三8Analyse the following similes:Using as:Similarly, many ordinary jobs may lookdull, but they are essential as water toour sciety.By comparing these jobs to water, the importance of these jobs is emphasized and made more o

4、bvious. 2021/8/11 星期三9Using 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.2021/8/11 星期三10More similes for you to enjoy:1.The day we passed together for a while seemed a bright fire

5、on a winters night. 2. You are like a hurricane: theres calm in your eye, but Im getting blown away. 3. You are as blind as a bat.4.She is as happy as a clark.5.Im not as timid as a rabit.2021/8/11 星期三11metaphorWhat is a metaphor?Metaphor is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one

6、 another. Unlike simile, you dont use like or as in the comparison. Something is something.2021/8/11 星期三12As a business person, you cant be a mouse.You have to be a tiger.Metaphors:You cant be a timid person. You should be a brave person.2021/8/11 星期三13For lawyers , a courtroom is a battlefield.A la

7、wyer is compared to a fighter. He must fight to win cases here.Going to work everyday became a chore forhim, 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.2021/8/11 星期三14More metaphors for you to enjoy:I am a r

8、ainbow I 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.2021/8/11 星期三15I am not Angel.I am not anger is an example of metaphorbecause it is contrasting two nouns.2021/8/11 星期三16Yang Min found an interesting poem on the in

9、ternet about qualifications for different jobs.Read the poem and under- line the similes and metaphors in it.If you want to be If you want to be a spy like James Bond 007,You need to be as cool as a cucumber and as sly as a fox. and you need cast iron nerves.similesimile2021/8/11 星期三17 If you want t

10、o be a model, you need to be as tall as a tree and eat like a bird. If you want to be an actorsimilesimile2021/8/11 星期三18And a martial arts lexpert like Jackie Chan, you can not be a weed.If you want to be successful like Bill Gates, you need to have a mind like a computer and be as sharp as a spear

11、 in business.similemetaphorsimilesimilesimile2021/8/11 星期三19If you want to be a magician like David Copperfield,You need to make people see that black is white and white is black.If you want to succeed in life,You need to be as hungry as a lion. similemetaphorsimile2021/8/11 星期三20B. Yang Min wants to find out the meaning of the similes and metaphors in the poem. Help her match the similes and the meta- phors with their correct meanings.Answers:1f 2-j 3g 4I 5c 6b 7e 8d 9a 10-h2021/8/11 星期三21MY LIFE IS A DREAM My life is a dream, like a tiger wakingup from her de