Skrej
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I decided this rotation to add some daily idioms to start off each class lesson.
I'm starting off with the ones I find myself using frequently, but I thought I'd pitch the question to forum instructors, and even advanced learners.
What are some of your favorite idioms, and what are some you hear or use the most frequently?
Rather than organizing them around a weekly theme (i.e. color idioms, body idioms, etc.) I'd like to focus on ones they're more likely to hear.
On a funny side note, I included 'break a leg' in yesterday's list. After explaining what it meant, one of my students got a horrified look on her face, and said she'd hear her son say that his friend last week.
Thinking it was a literal meaning, she apparently reprimanded him for saying 'mean things' to other people, lecturing him on how he shouldn't be a bully, and should be kind to people, etc.
She said she didn't believe him when he tried telling her it was actually something nice, and thought he was just trying to avoid getting in trouble. :lol:
I'm starting off with the ones I find myself using frequently, but I thought I'd pitch the question to forum instructors, and even advanced learners.
What are some of your favorite idioms, and what are some you hear or use the most frequently?
Rather than organizing them around a weekly theme (i.e. color idioms, body idioms, etc.) I'd like to focus on ones they're more likely to hear.
On a funny side note, I included 'break a leg' in yesterday's list. After explaining what it meant, one of my students got a horrified look on her face, and said she'd hear her son say that his friend last week.
Thinking it was a literal meaning, she apparently reprimanded him for saying 'mean things' to other people, lecturing him on how he shouldn't be a bully, and should be kind to people, etc.
She said she didn't believe him when he tried telling her it was actually something nice, and thought he was just trying to avoid getting in trouble. :lol: