teaching idiom

1. ELT- IV N. Batchuluun
B.Purevdulam
SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE
MONGOLIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

2. Content
What is an Idiom?
Some examples on Idiom
Body idioms
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5

3. What is an idiom?
An idiom is an expression
whose meaning cannot be
understood based on the
definition of its constitutional
elements
Idioms are phrases which
people use in everyday
language which do not make
sense literally but we
understand what they mean
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7. 1. All ears
2. Face the music
3. Get something off your
chest
4. Big mouth
9. Lend me a hand
10. Keep your nose out
of my business
11. Put your back into it
12. See eye to eye
13. Curl your lip
14. Break a leg
15. Give somebody a leg up
16. Learn by heart
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1. Your friend tells you about her recent break up.
2. Your classmates are starring in a play.
3. Your friend tells you about
her recent break up.
4. Your classmates are
starring in a play.
5.You’ve got some really exciting news to
share with everyone.
6. There is a party in your college to
celebrate the end of exams.
7. These glasses cost
me…………
8. We were just talking
about you…………. 9. He is such a …………..He told
them every thing.
10. After his financial problems, he
can hardly ………………….

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12. • "Everything At Once“ click here
As sly as a ……., as strong as an ox
As …….as a hare, as brave as a bear
As free as a ……., as neat as a word
As …… as a mouse, as big as a house
All I wanna be, all I wanna be, oh
All I wanna be is everything
As mean as a….., as sharp as a tooth
As …….as a bite, as dark as the night
As sweet as a song, as right as a ……
As …… as a road, as ugly as a toad
As pretty as a ……. hanging from a
fixture
Strong like a family, ………. as I wanna be
Bright as day, as light as play
As …….. as nails, as grand as a whale
All I wanna be oh, all I wanna be, oh
All I wanna be is everything
Everything at once
Everything at once, oh
Everything at once
As ……. as the sun, as silly as fun
As cool as a tree, as ……. as the sea
As hot as …….., cold as ice
Sweet as ……… and everything nice
As old as time, as straight as a line
As royal as a queen, as ……..as a bee
As stealth as a ………., smooth as a glider
…….. as a melody, pure as I wanna be
All I wanna be oh, all I wanna be, oh
All I wanna be is everything
Everything at once
Listen to music and fill in the gap.
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13. 1.When the politician was caught
stealing from the taxpayers,
everyone thought he would
receive a severe punishment, but
all he got was a slap on the wrist.
2.We thought that our neighbors,
the Jones family, were rich
beyond our wildest dreams, but it
turns out that we’re all in the
same boat.
3.If Kim thinks that I’m going to
let her copy my math
homework, she’s barking up the
wrong tree.
4.The Vikings thought that they
would easily beat the other team,
but when it was tied with a
minute left in the fourth quarter,
they knew that this game was
really coming down to the wire.
Read each idiom
and determine
the meaning.
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14. Idiom Advice- Make a dialogue
• Using the idioms, give advice to these people:
• Tom: I really want to go see a movie tonight, but I'm trying to save my money to
buy a new watch.
• Advice:_____________________________________________
• Julie: I just saw my brother's girlfriend with another boy, but he's in a really bad
mood because he got fired this morning. Do you think I should tell him?
• Advice:_____________________________________________
• Iris: Did you hear that? I think I heard something in the kitchen! Wait. . . . I'm not
sure. There it is again! I think I heard something. Do you hear it? Maybe it's a
ghost! Maybe it's a thief!
• Advice:_____________________________________________
• William: My grandfather is so old that he's almost deaf. When I talk to him, he
doesn't even notice that I'm talking.
• Advice:_____________________________________________
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15. • Idioms - A
• (Don't) add fuel to the fire
• (Don't) add insult to injury
• (Don't) kick a man when he's down
• - Don't make a bad situation even worse.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
• - Being far away from a person you love makes your love even stronger.
• A penny saved is a penny earned
• - It's good to save money, rather than spending and wasting it.
• A picture is worth a thousand words
• - Pictures can give more information than words alone.
• Actions speak louder than words
• - What you actually do is more important than what you say you will do.
• (It's) all in your head
• - imagined, not real
• Around the clock
• - all the time; 24 hours
• Asleep at the wheel
• - not paying attention; not doing his/her responsibilities
• (Shout or yell) at the top of your lungs
• - (to shout or yell) as loud as you can
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16. An arm and a leg
Hit the book
under the weather
Hang out
sit on top of the world
Time flies
Fed up
Be a sport
Feeling blue make big money
Eat your words
Take a big step
As sly as a fox
As strong as an ox
As fast as a hare
As brave as a bear
As free as a bird
As neat as a word
As sweat as a song
As pretty as a picture
As light as play
As quiet as a mouse
As big as a house
As mean as a wolf
As sharp as a bite
As dark as the night
1. All ears
2. Face the music
3. Get something off your chest
4. Big mouth
5. Achilles heel
6. Are your ears burning?
7. Let your hair down
8. Bite your lip
9. Lend me a hand
10. Keep your nose out of my
business
11. Put your back into it
12. See eye to eye
List of idioms

17. • The best way to learn idioms in the English language is to have
fun with them and try them out! Why not experiment with
these? Try a little conversation between friends, where each
person gets to use at least one idiom.