Idioms Quiz Homework answers
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Inside Out e-lesson Week starting: 8 th December 2008 1. Idioms challenge 3! This week’s lesson introduces a further selection of popular idiomatic expressions. Level Upper intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B2 and above) How to use the lesson 1. Make sure the students understand what idioms are (a simple definition would be: a group of words with a meaning that is different from the meanings of each individual word understood on its own). Give some examples, before asking students if they can provide some additional examples. Are there any idioms in English that the students find particularly strange or amusing? 2. Divide the students into pairs and tell them that in Exercise 1 they are going to work together to try to find the meanings of some English idioms. Then hand out Worksheets A and B, and ask the students to discuss the questions. In some cases they will probably have to guess. 3. Check answers in open class. Answers: 1. c 2. a 3. b 4. a 5. a 6. c 7. a 8. b 9. a 10. a 11. c 12. b 13. a 14. b 4. Keeping the students in their pairs, hand out Worksheet C and ask them to fill in the gaps using the appropriate idioms from Worksheets A and B. Point out that each idiom appears only once, and that it may be necessary to change the verb forms. This page has been downloaded from www.insideout.net . It is photocopiable, but all copies must be complete pages. Copyright © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008.
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e-lesson Week starting: 8th December 2008
1. Idioms challenge 3!This week’s lesson introduces a further selection of popular idiomatic expressions.
LevelUpper intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B2 and above)
How to use the lesson1. Make sure the students understand what idioms are (a simple definition would be: a group of words with a meaning that is different from the meanings of each individual word understood on its own). Give some examples, before asking students if they can provide some additional examples. Are there any idioms in English that the students find particularly strange or amusing?
2. Divide the students into pairs and tell them that in Exercise 1 they are going to work together to try to find the meanings of some English idioms. Then hand out Worksheets A and B, and ask the students to discuss the questions. In some cases they will probably have to guess.
3. Check answers in open class.
Answers: 1. c 2. a 3. b 4. a 5. a 6. c 7. a 8. b 9. a 10. a 11. c 12. b 13. a 14. b
4. Keeping the students in their pairs, hand out Worksheet C and ask them to fill in the gaps using the appropriate idioms from Worksheets A and B. Point out that each idiom appears only once, and that it may be necessary to change the verb forms.
5. Check answers in open class.
Answers: 1. keep (him) at arm’s length 2. off the top of (my) head 3. face the music 4. take a leaf out of (his) book 5. calls the shots 6. no love lost; tables have turned 7. saved the day 8. eye opener 9. in (her) stride; making a mountain out of a molehill 10. talking to a brick wall 11. go back to square one 12. economical with the truth
2. Related WebsitesSend your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/A large collection of idioms listed alphabetically, with brief definitions.
http://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.htmlA selection of ‘self-study idiom quizzes’ with answers.
http://www.idiomsite.com/A website explaining the origins of dozens of popular idioms.
This page has been downloaded from www.insideout.net.It is photocopiable, but all copies must be complete pages. Copyright © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008.
Inside Out
This page has been downloaded from www.insideout.net.It is photocopiable, but all copies must be complete pages. Copyright © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008.
