Презентация к открытому уроку "Английские идиомы"

An idiom is

• A word or a phrase, which means something different from its literal meaning.

Just look.

Very simple words:

nervous furious surprised impatient

bored unsure worried puzzled

But they can be expessed more attractive, expessive, richer, more emotional.

Now let us compare! 1 Alex seems impatient. - Alex is tapping his foot. 2 Pete seems puzzled. - Pete is scratching his head. 3 Helen looks worried. - Helen is biting her lips. 4 Nick looks nervous. - Nick's palms are sweating. 5 Gus seems bored. - Gus is crossing his arms. 6 John seems unsure. - John is shrugging his shoulders. 7 Laura seems furious. - Laura is clenching her teeth. 8 Tom looks surprised. - Tom is raising his eyebrows.

Do you feel the difference?!

Exactly! It is great to change white & black world of the language into the colorful and bright one. The expressions start play, sparkle, touch our emotions intelligibly!

In reality it looks like that! You know, while writing a test my palms were sweating. Some not very good pupils can't answer teacher questions and scratch their heads. My daughter clenched her teeth because I didn't let her go out. As you see the contents are the same. But idioms look more meaningful, brighter. They decorate our speech. I am going to develop my knowledge learning idioms, I will try to get to know more interesting things about the English language.

Have you noticed the butterflies on my slides? Butterflies bring beauty into our world. The more idioms we use, the more beautiful and expressive our talking is. I wish you to expand your horizon of idiomatic expressions too. Thank you!

Cake Tea Lemon Fish Сucumber

Sorry, but football is not my cup of _____

Tea

Cheese

Egg Apple Milk Potato

Cake Tea Lemon Fish Сucumber

I love my grandson, he is _____ on my eye

Apple

Cheese

Egg Apple Milk Potato

Cake Tea Lemon Fish Сucumber

Sorry, I cant join you, because i have bigger _____ to fry

Fish

Cheese

Egg Apple Milk Potato

Cake Tea Lemon Fish Сucumber

Do not cry over spilt _____ , what is done is done

Milk

Cheese

Egg Apple Milk Potato

Idioms from colors

• The black market - You can go to the bank to change dollars. But if you change money on the black market, you often get more money for each dollar.

• To feel blue - I was alone on my birthday and feeling blue. Then Anny called and invited me out, and I felt better.

• The green light - The bank has given us the money. Now we have the green light to start the project.

• Green with envy - I was green with envy when I learned that Luis had won a trip to Europe.

Idioms from food

• The apple of one's eye - The baby is the apple of her grandfather's eye. He thinks that she's wonderful.

• Baloney - His speech about the importance of helping the poor is baloney. He wouldn't even give his best friend a dime.

• To cream someone - Our basketball team really creamed its opponent. Our team won by a score of 120 to 60.

• Fishy - On our return home, we found the front door open, and we suspected that something fishy was going on.

Idioms from parts of the body

• A big mouth - My brother has such a big mouth. He told everything I said to our mother.

• By heart - I know all my friends' telephone numbers by heart. I never have to look in the telephone book.

• To cost an arm and a leg - Everything in that fancy department store costs an arm and a leg. I can't afford to buy anything there, not even a pencil.

• To have a sweet tooth - I know you have a sweet tooth, so I bought you a box of chocolates.

Idioms from animals

• As blind as a bat - I'm as blind as a bat without my glasses.
• As quiet as a mouse - When the teacher walked into the room, each student was at his or her desk, reading a book, as quiet as a mouse.
• A bookworm - Howard reads twelve books a week. He's a real bookworm.
• A copycat - My little brother Marvin is a copycat. If I get black sneakers, he wants to have black sneakers, too.

Idioms from plants

• To bark up the wrong tree - If you think I'm responsible, you're barking up the wrong tree. You should be talking to my partner. She made the decision.
• To beat around the bush - Please don't beat around the bush. Just answer my question yes or no.
• A bed of roses - My job is no bed of roses. I get a good salary, but I have to work long hours.
• Bushed - I've been working nonstop for ten hours. I'm really bushed.

Idioms from time

• The big time - Mafalda used to work in a supermarket. Then she hit the big time and she got a job as the star actress in a movie.
• To call it a day - When I finish writing this composition, I'm going to call it a day and go to bed.
• For the time being - We have no extra money. So for the time being, we can't move to a nicer apartment.
• High time - It's high time we bought a new car. The old one keeps dying out on the highway.