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.
One more: Chris’s homework said “A whale looks like a submarine”. Too true!
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