Introduction
1. What is figurative language?: Metaphors and Similies
2. The heart of the matter: Parts of the body
3. Playing the game: Games and sport
4. Time to spare: Time and money
5. A warm welcome: Weather
6. Taking steps: Life as a journey
7. A recipe for success: Cooking and tastes
8. Fabulous fables: Stories with metaphorical meanings
9. Ups and downs: Describing feelings
10. Running like clockwork: Machines
11. Branching out: Plants
12. Getting the green light: Colours
13. Opening doors: Parts of buildings
14. As free as a bird: Common similes
15. Marketing your metaphors: Advertising
16. A bird in the hand: Sayings
17. Mix me a metaphor: Poems
18. Selling with similes: Inventing similes
19. Shedding light on the matter: Light and dark
20. Plain sailing: Games and sport
21. Rising to the top: 'Up' and 'down'
22. Infectious laughter: Health and illness
23. Facing up to it: Parts of the body
24. Horsing around: Animals
25. Food for thought: Cooking and food
26. In a nutshell: Origins of idioms
27. Keeping your cool: Temperature
28. Rough diamonds: Describing people
29. Persuasion: Advertising
30. Breezing through: Weather
31. Pictures in the mind: Descriptive writing
32. Ripples and sparks: Water and fire
33. Learning is juggling: Analogies
34. The long night of captivity: Metaphors in rhetoric
Extension and revison activities
Student recordsheet