Group A
With someone with the same worksheet, write as many ways of finishing each idiom below as you can by thinking of things like that, then underline the best-sounding one
as blind as
as busy as
as clear as not at all clear or easy to understand
as cold as
as cool as calm at a time when everyone else would panic
as cunning as
as deaf as
as different as
as drunk as
as dry as
as easy as
as flat as
as gentle as
as greedy as
as hard as physically tough and/ or without warm human feeling
as light as not heavy
as mad as crazy
as miserable as
as old as
as quick as
as quiet as
as regular as reliable and/ or always at the same time
as safe as
as thin as
as tough as hard to cut and chew (meat)
as white as the colour of someone’s face after a shock or a fright
Work with someone with the other worksheet and match the parts without showing your worksheets to each other.
Group B
Try to add “as… as” with adjectives before each of the things below by thinking about what those things are like, then underline the one that sounds best.
a pig
a pancake
a fox
mud
a bat
a bee
ice
a sheet
leather/ old boots
nails
houses
a feather
lightning/ a flash
a mouse
clockwork
a hatter/ a March hare
the hills
ABC/ pie
a bone
a post
a lord
sin
a lamb
a cucumber
chalk and cheese
a rake
Work with someone with the other worksheet and match the parts without showing your worksheets to each other.
Answer key
- as blind as a bat
- as busy as a bee
- as clear as mud not at all clear or easy to understand
- as cold as ice
- as cool as a cucumber calm at a time when everyone else would panic
- as cunning as a fox
- as deaf as a post
- as different as chalk and cheese
- as drunk as a lord
- as dry as a bone
- as easy as ABC/ pie
- as flat as a pancake
- as gentle as a lamb
- as greedy as a pig
- as hard as nails physically tough and/ or without warm human feeling
- as light as a feather not heavy
- as mad as a hatter/ a March hare crazy
- as miserable as sin
- as old as the hills
- as quick as lightning/ a flash
- as quiet as a mouse
- as regular a clockwork reliable and/ or always at the same time
- as safe as houses
- as thin as a rake
- as tough as leather/ old boots hard to cut and chew (meat)
- as white as a sheet the colour of someone’s face after a shock or a fright
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