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Idioms

1. IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS ENGLISH 8 (AFRO-ASIAN LITERATURE)

2. WHAT IS AN IDIOM? IDIOM COMES FROM THE GREEK WORD “IDIOS” WHICH MEANS PERSONAL. is a phrase or an expression that has a figurative , or sometimes literal , meaning.

3. PIC-CHARADES (PICTURE + CHARADES) CLASSIFY THE MEANING OF THE GIVEN ILLUSTRATIONS TO FORM A PHRASE OR SENTENCE.

4. Put your foot in your mouth

5. I have a butterflies in my stomach

6. Cash Cow

7. Time flies

8. Walking in the air

9. Cat pull your tongue

10. Raining cats and dogs

11. Couch Potato

12. When pigs fly

13. As cool as Cucumber

14. GUIDE QUESTIONS: What have you noticed about the ILLUSTRATED PICTURES? What does this picture means? How do idiomatic expressions can enhance the vocabulary of the writers of English? DOES IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS LITERALLY DONE IN REAL LIFE? Why or why not?

15. HOW DO IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION USED IN A STATEMENT? Grade 8 Idioms Powtoon.mp4 WATCH THIS VIDEO :

16. There are many idiomatic expressions in our language. One is that several words are combined which lose their literal meaning and express something very remotely suggested. EXAMPLES: birds of a feather, blacklist, lay up, toe the line, make out, bed of roses, dark horse, heavy hand, open house, read between the lines, no ax to grind, hard row to hoe.

17. Black Sheep

18. Dark Horse

19. A second statement about idioms is that parts of the human body have suggested many of them: burn one‘s fingers all thumbs step on someone‘s toes F ly in the face of rub elbows with stand on one‘s own feet get one‘s back up keep body and soul together keep one‘s chin up keep one‘s eyes open

20. Put your foot in your mouth – say or do the wrong thing

21. Keep one’s eye open - To remain vigilant for someone or something. 

22. To step on someone’s feet -  to upset someone, esp. by getting involved in something that is that person's responsibility

23. A third generalization is that hundreds of idiomatic phrases contain adverbs or prepositions with other parts of speech. Here are some examples: walk off run down get through walk over run in get off walk-up run off get nowhere run out

24. Walk off - to leave a place because you are angry or unhappy about something

25. Run off -  To chase someone away with force or the threat of force or punishment.

26. TOP 20 AMERICAN IDIOMS AND THEIR MEANING OTHER EXAMPLES OF IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS AND THEIR MEANING :

27. MIX AND MATCH MATCH THE GIVEN PHRASES INTO THE MISSING WORD TO FORM AN IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION.

28. A B A piece of the ice break like a horse Work tears Rock my mind Crocodile the boat Read cake

29. DRAW AN IDIOM DRAW AN ILLUSTRATION USING THE GIVEN IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION AND INTERPRET ITS MEANING.

30. Break her heart Zip your mouth Apple of someone’s eyes Copycat Make mouth water

31. ACT AN IDIOM Think of at least three idioms and act them out in a class to make a guess.

32. SPOKEN WORD Compose at least eight-line spoken word using the idiomatic expressions. Read your work in the class.

33. SING IT! SING A SONG AND REPLACE THE LYRICS USING THE GIVEN IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS. (ANY SONG CAN DO)

34. EXERCISES : COMPLETE THE MISSING IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS IN THE GIVEN STATEMENT. A. Write a piece of cake , odds and ends , pros and cons or ups and down in the blanks provided. 1 . The teacher asked us to talk about the ___________ of industrial development. 2. Do not worry about the problems you have in your business .You know there are always ___________ in business. 3. The police found nothing special in the house of the criminal as he had taken all the important documents with him leaving just _____________. 4. If you think that doing this math problem is __________, just try it.

35. B. Write ocean , music , rags , cold and pie in the blanks provided. 1. All these promises the politicians make are just ____ in the sky. 2. The small amount of money donated is just a drop in the _____ compared to the large sum of money needed. 3. He has been successful in life. He went from ____ to riches. 4. They had a dispute yesterday. That‗s why she gave him a ___ shoulder. 5. I had to face the ____ all by myself, although I was not the only responsible for the problem.