23 As mad as a March hare

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo k, g, t, mavo
• Leerjaar 4

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Today

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.

Prior knowledge

Theory

Us to help build your descriptive vocabulary

(technically: a simile) to describe people

‘as +adjective + as + noun’ 

adjective + like + noun

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’? 

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’.

Theory

Theory

    Practise together

               Match and which do you already know?

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

    Practise together

    Practise together

Instructions for working

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

4B

Instructions for working

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

4A

Do

SE1 assignment

Start with making pairs. 

Brainstorm which book, tv show or movie each will choose.

Show what you know

Which pairs.

Which books, tv shows or movies.

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Game link

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

goal

Kort gesprekje – nablijven 15 – nablijven 30 – nablijven 45

Blijven spreken – niet aanspreekbaar – eten – spelletjes proberen te spelen – storen – respectloos naar ll doc

pre-knowledge

add tiny activity

theory

theory

theory

theory

Practise together

Practise together

Practise together

Practise together

Instructions for working

what how and what when finished

Do

werken aan vocab

werken aan grammar/technique

werken aan skill

werken aan wb

Show what you know

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