Изучение идиоматических выражений (Animal idioms) на уроках английского языка

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учитель английского языка

МКОУ «Лицей №15 города Черкесска»

Гукова Асият Адамовна

Задачи   урока

• Познавательные
• Расширить понятийную базу учащихся за счет включения в нее новых элементов–понятие « идиома », происхождение  идиом , алгоритм перевода  идиом . 
• Закрепить умения сравнивать, анализировать (фразеологизмы в русском и английском языках);
• Активизировать словарь учащихся

• Воспитательные:
• Воспитывать уважительное отношение к иноязычной культуре.
• Воспитывать интерес к разнообразию английского языка и к его художественным выразительным возможностям.
• Воспитывать культуру общения при групповой работе.

• Развивающие:
• Развивать умения анализировать, сравнивать, делать выводы;
• Тренировать внимание и память;
• Развивать логическое мышление.

Idioms

• An idiom is a phrase, saying, or a group of words with a metaphorical (not literal) meaning, which has become accepted in common usage.
• An idiom’s symbolic sense is quite different from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made. There are a large number of Idioms, and they are used very commonly in all languages. There are estimated to be at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions in the English language.

It is raining cats and dogs

• Meaning | Synonyms
• too much heavy rain
• torrential rain
• very heavily raining
• raining tremendously

It is raining cats and dogs

• Origin

• Example Sentences
• It’s  raining cats and dogs  I am worried about how my kids will reach home.
• It  rains cats and dogs  when the Monsoon comes in India.How will you go to play Cricket today? It’s  raining cats and dogs .
• When we were returning from the picnic, it was  raining cats and dogs .
• I think it’s not safe to drive the car now – it’s  raining cats and dogs .

“ Raining cats and dogs” is a peculiar expression from the 17th century with uncertain origins. While we can’t be sure who coined the phrase first or what it originally meant, it’s probably not because the beloved pets fell from the sky.

As odd as it is, the phrase is prominent in almost every major dialect of English—from the roots of England to the United States and Canada, to even the multilingual Indian English and the blended Singlish from Singapore.

Like a fish out of water

• Meaning | Synonyms
• being uncomfortable and restless
• falling into the state of confusion
• to feel awkward due to a specific/strange situation
• being in an unusual situation
• not feeling relaxed
• away from the familiar environment

Like a fish out of water

• Origin
• The idiom  fish out of water  alludes to someone exposed to an unknown situation. This expression makes reference to the fact that fish cannot survive on dry land for a long time which is out their habitat. The earliest reference to be traced is in Samuel Purchas’s Pilgrimage in 1613as: “The Arabians out of the desarts are as Fishes out of the water”

• Example Sentence
• Our new teacher looked like  a fish out of the water , nobody was aware of the issue.
• We had no clue how to make Phil comfortable with the new management. He was looking like  a fish out of the water .
• Sara has certainly not looked like  a fish out of water  in the mathematics lecture, since she is taking some online classes to improve her concepts.
• Martin had never been to a supermarket before, so he was looking like  a fish out of water  when his mother asked him to bring some stuff to cook.

To eat like a horse

• Meaning
• to eat a lot
• to have a very healthy appetite
• to eat voraciously, greedily, quickly, hungrily, maybe even savagely
• to devour food like an animal
• to enjoy your food a little too much
• to take more than one’s fair share
• to eat far more than the average person
• to over indulge

To eat like a horse

• Origin
• Origin is unclear. It is often stated in the sources that the meaning seems to be paradoxical, as horses do not eat voraciously or greedily. They eat hay and they eat it slowly. But this is a common feature of idioms – they are often paradoxical, the meaning sometimes being the exact opposite the literal interpretation of the words.

• Example Sentences
• He  eats like a horse  – there’s never enough left for everyone else once he’s been at the buffet.
• !
• I  eat like a horse  after a good walk along the beach – the sea air really stimulates my appetite!
• If you would stop  eating like a horse  in front of the guests, I wouldn’t have to be so embarrassed to admit I’m related to you.
• I’ve been  eating like a horse  over Christmas. I’ll have to go on a diet after the New Year.

Monkey see, Monkey do

• Meaning :
• an expression used to describe someone who has imitated another person usually without thinking. It often results in the person looking foolish.

Monkey see, Monkey do

• Origin
• This phrase is rather self-explanatory. Both monkeys and apes learn primarily by watching others and copying what they do. This applies to both monkeys and apes learning from others of their kind in the wild, and those in captivity learning from humans

• Example Sentences
• It was  monkey see, monkey do  for Derek. He copied everything that his friend did

Cat nap (catnap)

• Meaning
• a short sleep, usually during the day
• a short nap to boost your energy

Cat nap

• Origin
• Cats are known to sleep most of the day. It seems to have originated in the 1800s. It has been used as a verb since 1859.

• Example Sentences
• I had a very late night last night. I think that I will have a  catnap  during my lunch hour.
• Since I am on vacation I take a  catnap  every day.
• After I came home from school I took a nap before I did my homework

“ The Son of Tarzan” by Edgar Rice Burroughs published in 1916: often before had it supported his sleepy head, and now he leaned back to enjoy the forbidden pleasure of a cat nap.

Get the lion’s share

• Meaning | Synonyms
• the biggest part of something
• in a large ratio
• a large amount of share
• refers to a huge portion of something
• getting most of something and leaving a very tiny amount for others

Get the lion’s share

• Origin

• Example Sentences

• The idiomatic expression is originally derived from one of Aesop’s fables. Aesop was a Greek slave and we can trace one of his fables about a lion, according to which, the lion asks the other animals to hunt along with him and kept the major part of the killed ones being the king of the jungle, while the other animals received a very small part.

• Karen always keeps a  lion’s share  – I won’t work with her anymore.
• My sister grabbed the  lion’s share  of the pizza.
• They are wasting the  lion’s share  of their income by paying rents of the unnecessarily big house.
• Susana claimed the  lion’s share  of the money for her success at the concert.
• John was a really deserving candidate, so he got the  lion’s share  of credit for the social service contest.

Time to do exercises.

• My sister grabbed the ……….of the pizza.
• Since I am on vacation I take a………… every day.
• I think it’s not safe to drive the car now – it’s ……………
• Our new teacher looked like  ……… , nobody was aware of the issue.
• I’ve been  eating ………….  over Christmas. I’ll have to go on a diet after the New Year.
• It was  ……….for Derek. He copied everything that his friend did.

• raining cats and dogs .  
• monkey see,  monkey see
• a  catnap
• lion’s share  
• eating like a horse  
• a fish out of the water

Check your answers

• My sister grabbed the  lion’s share  of the pizza.
• Since I am on vacation I take a  catnap  every day.
• I think it’s not safe to drive the car now – it’s  raining cats and dogs .
• Our new teacher looked like  a fish out of the water , nobody was aware of the issue.
• I’ve been  eating like a horse  over Christmas. I’ll have to go on a diet after the New Year.
• It was  monkey see, monkey do  for Derek. He copied everything that his friend did.

Sources

• theidioms.com
• https://yandex.ru/images/