Week 7- Day 3 Appendices

Appendix A

Sample Sentences with Idioms

He was able to pin down the monstrous wild boar and tear out its mouth.

Ibalon was at peace once more.

The monsters were thorns in the hearts among the people.

Appendix B

Notes on Verbal Idioms

An idiom is a group of words with a specific meaning that is different from what the individual words literally mean. It is a
manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of the language.

Idioms come from all different sources -- from the Bible to horse racing, from ancient fables to modern street language –
and they are used for different purposes --from communicating more clearly and more visually to expressing something
which other words do not quite express, from seeking to be different to simply playing with words, and even from aiming
to be amusing or witty to intending to put other people at ease.

Examples

Idioms Meaning

Get over recover

Give in surrender, acknowledge defeat
Give up discontinue
Go against to conflict with
Go on continue
Look down on regard with scorn or contempt
Look over review
Think about consider, think for awhile
Try out audition, perform before judges

Appendix C
Read the following idioms and their meanings. With a partner, use 5 idioms in sentences. Then identify to whom you will
say it and in what situation. Do this on one half sheet of paper.

Example:
Idiom Meaning Sentence Person/s Situation Remarks
Spoken to
pain in the neck annoying; I need to a younger speaker is reviewing This idiom is not
a bother study so sibling for a test and a appropriate
don‟t be a younger sibling to use when talking to a
pain in the playing noisily. teacher, a parent, or
neck. any person in authority
because it is quite
colloquial.

1. grab a seat (sit down)

2. zip it (stop talking)
3. at your earliest convenience (as soon as possible)
4. look up to (admire)
5. on cloud nine (very happy)
6. on the ball (alert)
7. a piece of cake (very easy)
8. in a nutshell (as briefly as possible)
9. once in a blue moon (rarely)
10. an act of God (a natural and unavoidable event that results in great loss)

Appendix D

Matching Type
Match the idioms used in sentences in Row A with their definitions in Row B.

Row A

1. Please think it over carefully before you sign the contract.

2. Please put up your toys.
3. The firemen put out the fire
4. We put down forty per cent on the house.
5. Did you make that story up? I don't believe it.
6. With a lot of hard work, you too can make out in life.
7. Look out or you might get hurt.
8. The police are looking into the crime.
9. The dog let out a loud yelp when its owner left.
10. His striped shirt didn't go with his jacket.

Row B

A. Succeed
B. To be on guard, to take care
C. Investigate
D. Release from restraint
E. Look goo or fashionable with
F. Repeat
G. To place a down payment
H. Extinguish
I. Put items in their places
J. Consider, think for a while