The article focuses on the role of metaphor in the process of learning English as a foreign language, analyzes the domestic and foreign studies devoted to the metaphors used in the educational process, as well as the production and perception of metaphors by students in foreign language classes is carried out. Besides, the research contains the author's classification and samples of exercises on the topic "Metaphor" for intending translators.

 

Keywords: foreign language teaching; English as a foreign language; professional education; intending translators; stylistics; metaphor.