23 As mad as a March hare

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Welcome!

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Today

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Confirm: the animal is a hare. A hare is like a rabbit, but it is slightly larger and with longer ears. Normally hares are quiet animals, and are difficult to see in the
countryside, but in spring, mating season, their behaviour changes, and they can
be seen running round the fields, jumping and fighting. Because this is such a
huge change in behaviour, people say that hares in March are mad – and so
someone can be described with ‘as mad as a March hare’.
Elicit the form (as adjective as + noun).
Goal
I know what a simile is and how they work.
I know how to use a simile.
I picked a classmate and a book, tv show or movie.

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Prior knowledge

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Theory
Us to help build your descriptive vocabulary
(technically: a simile) to describe people

‘as +adjective + as + noun’ 

adjective + like + noun

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Tell students that you will be looking at how English uses the structure ‘as
+adjective + as + noun’ (technically: a simile) to describe people. 

In the lesson, students will be building their range of descriptive vocabulary. 
Theory
as good as gold = 
as cool as a cucumber = 

Why ‘as deaf as a post’? 
Why ‘as good as gold’? 

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Ask the students for some synonyms to develop the meanings: as good
as gold = well-behaved; as cool as a cucumber = calm and relaxed in
manner, unaffected by pressure). Encourage some critical thinking: why
‘as deaf as a post’? why ‘as good as gold’? 

In this case things are a little different. Gold isn’t well-known to be either well-behaved or obedient. Here ‘good’ means genuine, not counterfeit.
When banknotes (known as bills in the USA and some other countries) were first introduced they weren’t considered to be money in the sense we now think of them, but were promissory notes or IOUs. Gold or silver was real money as it had intrinsic value, whereas notes were just promises to pay in coin. UK banknotes, like those of many other countries, still include messages such as this, signed by the Chief Cashier of the Bank of England: ‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds’.
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               Match and which do you already know?

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as as quiet as A MOUSE
as thin as A RAKE
as red as A BEETROOT
as deaf as A POST
as light as A FEATHER

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    Practise together

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Instructions for working
Unit 1.4 exercise 2, 4 and 6 page 44,46 & 47


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Instructions for working
Unit 1.4 exercise 2, 4 and 6 page 43,46 & 47


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SE1 assignment
Start with making pairs. 
Brainstorm which book, tv show or movie each will choose.

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Show what you know

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Homework

Learn: ... Page ...

Do: exercise ... page ...

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today
10 intro + theory
5 practise together
20. work on grammar practise . work on speaking. work on wb
5 show what you know and can
5 min self

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goal

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Kort gesprekje – nablijven 15 – nablijven 30 – nablijven 45
Blijven spreken – niet aanspreekbaar – eten – spelletjes proberen te spelen – storen – respectloos naar ll doc

pre-knowledge

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Instructions for working

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what how and what when finished
Do

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werken aan vocab
werken aan grammar/technique
werken aan skill
werken aan wb
Show what you know

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Exit

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