One day a young man about the age of 25 was walking along the sidewalk in the park. Then all of a sudden he looks up from hearing the sound of an old man sobbing.

"What's wrong?" said the young man.

"Well it's nothing really." said the old man.

"It has to be something. Tell me about it" said the young man.

"Well, everyday after I wake up in the morning, me and my wife have wild sex. Then I leave for work" the old man said.

"That's not bad" the young man said.

"Well, when I get home from work, my wife has already finished making lunch for me and her. Then after lunch we have more wild sex." the old man said.

"That's not bad at all. There's no reason why you should be sobbing." said the young man.

"When we finish making love, I go back to work at my second job. Then i come home and by that time, my wife is finished making supper. Then we eat and have wild sex again through out the night." the old man said.

"If you are having sex all day, then why so glum?" the young man said.

Then the old man finally says why he is so glum, "I forgot where I live!"

Teach the class a few "as ... as" similes commonly used, for example, "as proud as a peacock" or "as good as gold". Then suggest a few adjectives, and ask them to invent their own comparisons. Share and discuss them.

See the list for further conventional similes and suggested adjectives for inventing new ones.

as proud as a peacock
as good as gold
as warm as toast
as white as snow
as quick as lighting
as mad as a hatter
as sweet as honey
as cold as ice
as drunk as a lord
as light as a feather
as heavy as lead

Adjectives

Elementary: happy, long, short, beautiful, clever, clean, tall, small, rich, strong
Intermediate: free, lazy, wise, powerful, innocent, ugly, smooth, faithful, fresh, colourful
Advanced: juicy, graceful, brilliant, humble, irritable, sly, rotten, romantic, obstinate, delicious