HAPPY IS UP; SAD IS DOWN

In Unit 3 page 43 there's a set of activities about metaphors. If you are more interested in a topic that I find fascinating and you like to reflect about how language works, you will enjoy the following links (but it's not compulsory!). They deal with different aspects of something that is overwhelmingly present in everyday speech (not only in poetry!): METAPHORS.

METAPHORS: activity key

As homework, you can do the activity on metaphors from unit 3, page 43. This is the key:

ACT. 2: 1.follow in his/her footsteps; 2.dead-end; 3.take off; 4.reach a crossroads; 5.warm personality;  6. stormy relationship; 7.frosty reception; 8.feel under the weather; 9.struggle; 10.call the shots; 11.in the firing line; 12.have my sights set on.
ACT.3: 1.under the weather; 2. a dead-end; 3.stormy relationship; 4.call the shots; 5.take off; 6. in the firing line; 7.set on; 8.in (your mother's) footsteps