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Vocabulary - idioms
The difference between idioms and fixed expressions:
A fixed expression is a form of expression that has taken on a more specific meaning than the words themselves. It is the standard way of expressing a concept or an idea; it is something we ordinarily say in certain situations.
Examples include:
Pleased to meet you
All of a sudden
On the other hand
More trouble than it’s worth
Neither here nor there
An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own.
Examples include:
A can of worms (a complicated problem)
A chip of the old block (a child with similar characteristics to one of their parents)
To be out for the count (to be sleeping peacefully)
Rub someone the wrong way (annoy or bother someone)
Pull someone’s leg (tease someone by trying to make them believe something that is not true)
Money idioms
to splash out on something (a product)
to rip someone off or to be/get ripped off
to go on a spending spree
to be (flat) broke
to pass the buck
See unit New Language Leader Unit 4.2 p. 39 questions 6a, 6b, 7.
Listening - Using correct and appropriate language online.
Unit 4.3, p. 40, question 1a.
Speaking - Discussion - Brexit
Homework - answers reading pp. 38 -39 questions
5a
a) text 2, b) text 3, c) text 1
5b
a) text 3, b) text 2, c) text 1
5c
