Now you might think that students who are learning English at a pre-intermediate level are not the ones to go to for literary inspiration: wrong! This week we studied structures like “looks like” and “feels like” and my multicultural bunch came up with all kinds of gems. Try a few of these for inspiration:

• The birds sound polite
• A crocodile feels like wood
• The desk feels like a corpse
• My friend sings like a buffalo
• But my friend sings like a rooster being strangled

And my favourite (there’ll be a story out of this one day, unless you get there first):

• A crocodile sounds like a cemetery.

Thanks to Roman from Switzerland for that one, and to all my other lovely students for the rest.