Level: High Beginning and Up
Pair with the Song: “When We Were Young” (Adele, 2015)
Recommended Video: the live performance video
In the song “When We Were Young,” Adele uses the word like to make a comparison 14 times. (It was just like a movie, It was just like a song, etc.) The interactive worksheet below offers practice with this construction. Permission is granted to reproduce for classroom use. For more activities to pair with this song, please see the Lesson Plan.
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Comparisons Using Like
A. Work with a partner. Take turns making comparisons with like. First, choose any word from the first column. Find a similar word in the second column and make a sentence with like. Then explain how the two words are similar. For example:
| Paris | vanilla |
| chocolate | a star |
| the moon | London |
Student A: Chocolate is like vanilla. They are both flavors of ice cream. Now it’s your turn.
Student B: Paris is like London. They are both cities in Europe. Your turn.
Student A: The moon is like a star. They are both in the night sky. Your turn.
B. Now make sentences with the words below. With a partner, take turns making comparisons with like. Explain how the two words in your sentence are similar.
| orange juice | soccer |
| the Nile | Tylenol |
| ears | a trumpet |
| Beijing | a screwdriver |
| Toyota | Chile |
| aspirin | July |
| August | the Amazon |
| a hammer | a fly |
| a dollar bill | milk |
| tennis | Bangkok |
| a violin | a dime |
| California | mathematics |
| Bolivia | Texas |
| history | hands |
| a mosquito | Honda |
Worksheet © 2019 Sandra Heyer. All rights reserved. Permission granted to reproduce for classroom use. (This exercise is modeled after the one on p. 473 in Basic English Grammar, Fourth Edition, by Betty Azar and Stacy Hagen.)
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