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Lanternfish ESL

Sample Simile Flashcard

Alien World: Simile Card Game

These card can be used to practice simile constructions with 'like'. The theme is describing animals and objects from an alien world.

Some terms covered are:
An alien that looks like an octopus.
An alien that talks like a duck.
A creature that swims like a fish.
A planet that has rings like Saturn.
A vehicle that drives like a car.
A creature that flies like a butterfly.
A spaceship that looks like a shark.

Print two copies of the cards and paste on posterboard to make a deck of cards to play Go Fish, review the vocabulary, or play Memory.

Go Fish:
Students each get 2 or 3 cards dealt to them. Going clockwise students try to match up their cards by asking other students if they have a matching card. Interactions are as follows:

Student A: Do you have a spaceship that looks like a shark?
Student B: Yes, I do. (Student B gives card to student A and student A gets a point).



or


Student A: Do you have a creature that swims like a fish?
Student B: No, I don't. (Student A takes a card from the deck).