Изучение идиоматических выражений (Apple idioms) на уроках английского языка.

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учитель английского языка

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Гукова Асият Адамовна

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• 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.

Apple idioms

The apple polisher

• Meaning
• a flatterer; toady
• a person who tries to get favours from those in authority through flattery
• a person who seeks for promotion or rewards from higher ups by singing their praises or complimenting them
• a person who mostly says false things to those in authority in order to get something in return

The apple polisher

• Example Sentences
• It’s not good to be seen as an  apple polisher  as people would always doubt your intentions.
• It is better to be honest with people than to tell them false things and be taken as an  apple polisher .
• I will never  polish the apple  for my boss, I believe in honesty and hard

• Origin
• This phrase originated in the mid-15 th  century when parents of young school children will cook meals and invite the teachers to thank them for their dedication to the children. As time went on, these meals reduced to just an apple, polished until it is gleaming and this apple was handed to the teacher by the student. So many came to see this polished apple as a gift given to the teachers by the children in order for the teacher to give them preferential treatment like overlook a poor grade.

Apple of someone’s eye

• Meaning: 
• the person of whom one is extremely fond, favorite, loving
• most favourite person
• someone most cherished, above others
• someone or something that is very precious.

Apple of someone’s eye

• Origin
• The phrase originally had anatomical reference and was used to denote the central aperture of the eye. The expression first appeared in Old English in 885 AD, in a work attributed to King Aelfred (the Great) of Wessex, titled  Gregory’s Pastoral Care . It was later used by Shakespeare in 1600 in his play  A Midsummer Night’s Dream  and also appeared in English translations of the Bible in 1611. However, the phrase was more commonly used after it appeared in Sir Walter Scott’s novel  Old Mortality  in 1816.

• Example Sentences
• She has three children, but her youngest son is the  apple of her eye.
• She was a very charming little girl and a very bright student, and was the  apple of her teachers’ eyes .
• He loved his daughter very much. She was the  apple of his eye .

Apple pie order

• Meaning
• neat and tidy in the arrangement
• everything in the correct place
• clean
• ordered or in perfect order.

Apple pie order

• Origin
• The origin of this idiom is uncertain. It may have something to do with a French phrase,  nappe pliee , meaning ‘neatly folded’. It was first recorded in English in the late 1700s in seafarer Thomas Pasely’s journal. He wrote that the sailors were ‘clean and in apple-pie order on Sundays’. In a later letter from Sir Walter Scott, he mentioned that ‘the children’s garden is in apple-pie order’.
• The phrase is informal. The meaning suggests that everything is arranged neatly, in the correct order, and perfectly in place. Also, that everything is sterile or to the highest level of cleanliness .

• Example Sentences
• Everything still has to be  in apple-pie order , even though he left the army years ago.
• When I opened the fridge, everything was arranged  in apple-pie order .
• They entered the operating theatre and could see that all the instruments they needed were laid out  in apple-pie order , ready for them to begin the day.

Compare apples and oranges .

• Meaning
• the items that cannot be compared with each other
• an unfair comparison
• two things that belong to different classes
• things that are completely different
• possessing non-identical attributes
• in contrast

Compare apples and oranges

• Origin

• Example Sentences
• We cannot compare Sara and Salina. They are  apples and oranges .
• They were twins, but  apples and oranges .
• To compare Italian food with Mexican food is to compare  apples with oranges .
• They were a mismatching couple; it was like  apples and oranges .

It is said that the idiom “apples to oranges” first known as “apples to oysters” in John Ray’s proverb collection of 1670. The original expression referred to oysters on behalf of oranges as something which can never be compared with the apples.

Moreover, Spanish use it as “apples to pears” while the French use is as “apples to oranges.” The exact form of the idiom “apples to oranges” is being used since about 1889.

Upset the apple cart

• Meaning
• spoil or disrupt a plan or arrangement
• disprove a theory

Upset the apple cart

• Origin This great idiom originated as “upset the cart” and it has been in use since Roman times which has similar meaning: “mess up the whole thing” though, the exact dates of this phrase were from the late 1700s.
• So, this idiom is originally derived from a Roman phrase “upset the cart” and it is to be believed that later, it becomes “upset the applecart”.

• Example Sentences
• Look, please don’t upset the applecart, just go to supplier and ask to replace this damaged part of our customized car project.
• The five members of that group wanted to go for a trip to Himalayas, but Jone, the sixth member upset the applecart by denying to go.
• Sarah, really don’t want to upset the applecart by asking you to change the timing of the party, but she is really helpless.

As easy as apple pie

• Meaning |
• an easy thing
• a very simple task
• a snap
• It is a comparison between a task and pie, the latter being very easy and hence the former depicts the same too.

As easy as apple pie

• Origin
• A pie is not easy to make, so the comparison is not related to making a pie. It is in fact related to having or eating a pie. The phrase came to existence in the 1900 ‘ s in the United States of America. A pie was use to represent something that was pleasant and exchanged at joyous occasions. In 1855, the phrase, in a slight variation was published in the book called ‘Which? Right or Left?’ Here it was used as ‘nice as a pie’. Prior to this Mark Twain used the phrase ‘as polite as a pie’.

• Example Sentences
• The results are sure to be good this time since the exam was  as easy as a pie .
• I went to work on a Saturday thinking that the task will take long to complete but it was actually  as easy as a pie .
• She needs reassurances on contracts which are  as easy as a pie . I cannot keep counselling her all the time.

Time for doing exercises .(Choose the correct variant)

• To write this paper was …………………
• We had planned to hold a get-together in the evening, but bad weather ………………. 
• It’s not good to…….  for your teacher for getting extra marks.
• He loved his daughter very much. She was the  apple of his eye .
• My mother is always cleaning. The house is …………..
• They were twins, but 

• upset the applecart.
• the apple of his eye.
• polish the apple
• apples and oranges.
• As easy as apple pie
• in apple-pie order.

Correct your answers

• To write this paper was as easy as apple pie
• We had planned to hold a get-together in the evening, but bad weather upset the apple cart
• It’s not good to polish apple   for your teacher for getting extra marks.
• He loved his daughter very much. She was the  apple of his eye.
• My mother is always cleaning. The house is in apple-pie order.
• They were twins, but  apples and oranges

Sources

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