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A or B. Tell the A students to close their eyes and put their heads
on their arms on the desk. Tell the A students that they should now
try to describe their neighbour B's appearance to him or her from
memory. B should help by asking questions and by commenting.
If there is time, reverse roles so that student B cannot see.
Student B should then attempt to describe the front and back of the
classroom; what is there and something about its appearance.
Student A should respond but not confirm or reject B's description.

Variation 1: All the students try to remember what can be seen
from the school/college front entrance. Encourage differences of
opinion.
Variation 2: Agree on an experience, which all the students have
in common. This can be something of an everyday nature, for
example, a school/college open evening or a fire safety practice in
the college or even the first five minutes of the lesson. The
challenge is, how well can the students remember things? They
should attempt to reconstruct, in minute detail, the appearance and
behaviour of the people involved and what they said, the sequence
of events and the setting.

New comparisons

'As... as' comparisons.
Procedure: 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 BOX for further conventional similes and
suggested adjectives for inventing new ones.

BOX: New comparisons
Conventional similes
as proud as a peacock
as good as gold
as warm as toast
as white as snow

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