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Idioms

An extract from a post on justpublishingadvice.com:

A common figure of speech often uses an inanimate object to give a figurative instead of a literal meaning.

Very often we use similes and metaphors to express an idea or concept. Idioms are another type of figurative speech.

Figure of speech examples

We often use an object to create emphasis. For example, “It’s raining cats and dogs” and “I’ll give you a hand.”

If you are a writer, you are using words and expressions both literally and figuratively all the time. You might be trying to create verbal irony, express human qualities or add colour to your text.

Some forms use word order or repetition, such as, “In the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Others can use a chiasmus, where the second part of the expression is balanced against the first. For example, “you should work to live, not live to work.”

Exaggeration, or hyperbole in literary terms, can quickly turn literal language into figurative. “I have a million things to do at the office today”, or, “it cost me an arm and a leg.”

The opposite, of course, is understatement. “It’s only a scratch” when referring to a deep or nasty wound. Or, “It’s a little fresh today” when the temperature is well below zero. Or, “Tiger Woods was a half-decent golf player in his prime.”

Other figure of speech examples include euphemisms.They are a very common form of saying something in a way that is not as blunt or direct. He passed away instead of he died. I’m going to let you go to replace you’re fired. Or, it fell off the back of a truck, when in fact, it was stolen.

Some expressions use alliteration, where a consonant sound is repeated. Examples include, “I’m as busy as a bee” and “It’s as dead as a doornail.”

Cartoon by Ella Baron in the Times Literary Supplement on Twitter.

Did you know? Figures of speech in the picture above:

1. Put all eggs in one basket = Having all of your resources in one place; putting your money or hopes or future into one thing

2. Wear one's heart on one's sleeve = display one’s emotions openly

3. An ace up one's sleeve = a surprise or secret advantage, especially something tricky that is kept hidden until needed.

4. The joker in the pack= If you describe someone or something as the joker in the pack, you mean that they are different from the other people or things in their group, and can be unpredictable.

5. Don’t trust one's own shadow= not believe or trust people easily

6. Coming out of one's ears= (figurative) very numerous or abundant. (As if people or things were coming in great numbers from many sources including unlikely ones.)

7. Spill the beans= reveal the secret

8. Red herring= A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion. 

 9. Big cheese= the most important person

10. Time flies= time passes quickly

11. Piece of cake =very easy to be done

12. Can't make an omelet without breaking an egg= If you say you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, you mean that it is impossible to achieve something important without there being some bad effects. Note: `Omelette' is usually spelled `omelet' in American English.

13. Like a cat chasing its tail= chase (one's) tail To take action that is ineffectual and does not lead to progress. Refers to how a dog or a cat can exhaust itself by chasing its own tail.

14. Tie the knot= to get married

15. To be born with a silver spoon in your mouth or born with a silver spoon in your mouth= If you think that someone has a lot of advantages because they have a rich or influential family, you can say that they have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

16 Bird’s eye view= a view from a high angle as if seen by a bird in flight or an overall or cursory look at something

17 A stitch in time saves nine= if you sort out a problem immediately, it may save extra work later 

18 Tough nut to crack (plural tough nuts to crack) = A problem that is challenging to solve. (idiomatic, by extension) A situation, person, group, etc. which is difficult to deal with. (idiomatic) A place, opportunity, etc. to which it is difficult to gain entry. An amount that is difficult to finance.

19 Ride one’s coattails= To benefit from someone else's success; to use someone else's success as a means to achieve one’s own.

20 Get cold feet= hesitate or have second thoughts about sth

21 Sth is full of holes= Unsound or flawed; having many faults that do not stand up to scrutiny or criticism. Alludes to a leaky, porous vessel—hence the related expression, "doesn't hold water."

22 The cherry on the cake= A desirable feature perceived as the finishing touch to something that is already inviting or worth having. Related Idioms : a bite at the cherry. an attempt or chance to do something.

Taken from here.

23 Kick the bucket = to die, pass away

24 Hit the nail on the head= do or say something that is precisely right

25 Cat got one's tongue= Used when someone has nothing to say.

26 An earworm= (informal) a song that you keep hearing in your head

27 Pull your socks up = If someone tells you to pull your socks up, they want you to improve your behaviour or work.


Now visit these websites to find out about the surprising origin of most of these idioms. Then, use this information to write as many example sentences as possible in the comments below.

The Idioms - Largest Idioms Dictionary

PHRASES.ORG.UK

Idioms and phrases - The Free Dictionary

CNN news can be fun!

CNN articles on current affairs with a number of words explained for you.
https://en.news/lesson-browser/lesson-store

You can learn the ropes by clicking here first:
https://en.news/lessonPlayer/19275-zxx-en/learn/1/1/1?disableResume=false

Christmas videos and New Year’s Resolutions

• New Year’s Resolutions for English Language Learners: https://youtu.be/XZUb69IocuA 
• Funny scene of Friends: https://youtu.be/UV7fZd7gjJ8 
• Phrases expressing resolutions: https://youtu.be/SVJRq2ezhFQ 

• Christmas Karaoke https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF22689E438E0C08A

• Crazy Christmas traditions around the world https://youtu.be/wFXkazFvFI8

• The Gingerbread Man story https://youtu.be/pckuS--UlV4

• A Christmas Carol - short version https://youtu.be/HqMfGq3okZY

• Mr Bean’s Christmas https://youtu.be/HKUY_gOxLas

• Nightmare Before Christmas- when Jack discovers Christmastown https://youtu.be/yXo-mqmiGew

Listening activities

 

Μάθημα 16: Hip Hop Music

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Μάθημα 17: Jeet Kune Do

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Μάθημα 18: Skateboarding

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Taken from: http://www.hau.gr/?i=learning.el.podcasts-in-english

Useful idioms since this day is coming!

My favourite phrasal verbs with their meaning

Most of the teenagers hate learning phrasal verbs because they have different meaning with every preposition and they find it difficult.  Sometimes, I belong to those youngers. However, I try to learn as more as I can because I know they are useful. Here are some of my favourite phrasal verbs with their meaning. 

   Back up= give support
   Break out= start suddenly, escape
   Brush up on= practice sth you already have knowledge of
   Put off= postpone
   Call for= demand
   Come off= be removed for a colour
   Do away with= get rid of
   Snap up= to buy sth immediately
   Cut off= interrupt
   Figure out= understand, solve
   Give in= surrender
   Give away= give for free
   Go through= live through difficult experiences
   Keep up with= not fall behind
   Iron out= fix problems
   Let down= disappoint
   Pass out= faint
   Pass away= die

   I hope you enjoy!

WATCHING THE FREEDOM WRITERS ON NATIONAL TOLERANCE DAY

Watching, discussing and reflecting on "Freedom Writers" with my teenage students: The ideal way to celebrate the International Day of Tolerance (16th November), especially in the light of the recent inhumane terrorist attacks.

An outstanding film on the value of tolerance and the difficulty, but also glory, of learning how to co-exist. Proof of the brilliance of proper educators and the extent of difference they can make, one person at a time, one class at a time, in an ever-changing multifarious world.

Related information:

School's slides on tolerance:

http://www.slideshare.net/cm24/national-tolerance-day-a-cpe-lesson

The film on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463998/

The trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3634888985/

Quotes as a discussion springboard:

Erin Gruwell: Maybe we should talk about art. Tito's got real talent, don't you think? You know something? I saw a picture just like this once, in a museum. Only it wasn't a black man, it was a jewish man. And instead of the big lips he had a really big nose, like a rat's nose. But he wasn't just one particular jewish man. This was a drawing of all jews. And these drawings were put in the newspapers by the most famous gang in history. You think you know all about gangs? You're amateurs. This gang will put you all to shame. And they started out poor and angry and everybody looked down on them. Until one man decided to give them some pride, an identity... and somebody to blame. You take over neighborhoods? That's nothing compared to them. They took over countries. You want to know how? They just wiped out everybody else. Yeah, they wiped out everybody they didn't like and everybody they blamed for their life being hard. And one of the ways they did it was by doing this: see, they print pictures like this in the newspapers, jewish people with big, long noses... blacks with big, fat lips. They'd also published scientific evidence that proved that jews and blacks were the lowest form of human species. Jews and blacks were more like animals. And because they were just like animals it didn't matter if they lived or died. In fact, life would be a whole lot better if they were all dead. That's how a holocaust happens. And that's what you all think of each other.

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Eva: White people wanting respect like they deserve it for free.
Erin Gruwell: I'm a teacher, it doesn't matter what color I am.
Eva: It's all about color, it's about people deciding what you deserve, about people wanting what they don't deserve. About whites thinking they own this world no matter what, you see, I hate white people.
Erin Gruwell: You hate me? You don't even know me.
Eva: I know what you can do. I saw white cops shoot my friend in the back for reaching into his pocket, his pocket! I saw white cops come into my house and take my father away for no REASON except they feel like it! Except because they can! And they can, because they're white. So I HATE white people on sight

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Marcus: I've never had a hero before. But you are my hero.
Miep Gies: Oh, no. No, no, no, young man, no. I am not a hero. No. I did what I had to do, because it was the right thing to do. That is all.

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Marcus: Lady, stop acting like you tryin' to understand our situation, and just do your little babysitting up there.
Erin Gruwell: That's what you think this is?
Marcus: It ain't nothing else. When I look out in the world I don't see nobody that looks like me with their pockets full unless they're rapping a lyrics or dribbling a ball, so what else you got in here for me?
Erin Gruwell: And what if you can't rap a lyric or dribble a ball?
Andre: It ain't this.
Marcus: I know that's right.
Erin Gruwell: And you all think you're gonna make it to graduation like this?
Andre: I made it to HIGH school ain't nobody stop me.
Marcus: Lady I'm lucky if I make it to 18, we in a war! We graduating every day we live because we ain't afraid to die, protecting our own. At least when you die for your own, you die with respect, you die a warrior.

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Erin Gruwell: So when you're dead, you'll get respect, that what you think?
[murmurs of 'yeah' from the class]
Erin Gruwell: You know what's gonna happen when you die? You're gonna rot in the ground, and people are going to go on living, and they're going to forget all about you. And when you ROT, do you think it's gonna matter whether you were an original gangsta? You're dead, and nobody, NOBODY, is gonna want to remember you, because all you left in the world is this.
[holds up Tito's drawing]

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Miep Gies: You are the heroes. You are heroes every day.

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Margaret Campbell: You can't make someone want education.

Adjectives to describe places

 

THEME PARKS VOCABULARY

stading in line, rollercoaster, dress code,height restrictions,soaked wet,rides,air roller

This is a very exciting video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKJAaoPDINA

Environment

Environment words:

Global warming
Grrenhouse Effect
Coil
Oil
Natural Gas
Nuclear Plants
Solar Panels
Wind  Turbines
CO2
Fossil Fuels
Carbon Cycle

This is a nice video:
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/climate-change-earth-s-giant-game-of-tetris-joss-fong#review

A fantastic song for you

Useful Adjectives :-)

https://www.google.gr/search?q=easy+pace+learning&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=677&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=6f3BVMw1go9ouZeBsAY&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

Describing And Contrasting Pictures

In the following text are going to be described and contrasted those 5 photos that are included in the link; http://markaki-students.blogspot.gr/2010/07/describing-places-fce-speaking-part-2.html 

Picture 1 is showing a picturesque path in a argicultural, mountainous aera. (in Giouchtas mountain in Crete as we are informed by the caption) The weather is cloudy and maybe a little bit foggy. The background has a lush vegetation and generally the aera is particularly stony. Moreover Picture 2 is quite related with the previous Picture due to the fact that is showing the view of the mountain Giouchtas. The scenery is breath-taking and immensely spectacular as we can see the whole valley down of the mountain and we can enjoy - a little bit blurrily due to the high altitude - its variety of vagatation. On the other hand, Picture 3 is completely different to the previous ones since it shows a quiet costal aera, and more specificaly Heraklion's port. We are able to see the calm clean sea and some boats and yachts that surrounds the castle "Koule". The scenery remind us again the picturesque aspect of Heraklion. In contrast, the following pictures are completely different, since they both show aeras that are located in Barchelona, Spain. However, the first picture is refered to an urban Barchelona's aera with many people who surround huge building which could be a company or maybe a shopping mall. In addition, in the bottom right-hand corner there are some trees and a fountain. Generally, a pleasant environment occurs. Furthermore, the last picture shows Park Duell, a world famous park due to its innovative, creative architecture. In the foreground there are some tourists who are taking photographs while they are enjoying the view whereas in the top right-hand corner there is a variety of stange colourful buildings. To sum up, apart from picture 1 and two that are refered to the same place and maybe picture 4 and 5, each pictures shows something different but undoubtedly beautiful.

FCE quizzes and phrases

Describing places- FCE Speaking

http://markaki-students.blogspot.gr/2010/07/describing-places-fce-speaking-part-2.html

How many of these words do you know and actually use? :)

DESPICABLE ME 2

Activity 1
               I completed the online quiz and I am fascinated because of  my memory as I scored 27 out of 30.


Activity 2

              Examples:

                             1) He saw the bus in front of him and decided to hold the horses.( He slowed down)

                             2) Putting all the parts of this puzzle together might take a while. ( Take a lot of time)

                             3) Tom and Marry had so many fights that they decided to break up, so Tom drowned his sorrows by consuming alcohol. ( Handle his problem).

                             4) My maths teacher always says: " There is more to Maths than meets the eye" ( It is more interesting than what I believe)

                             5) After he gave the money to the poor he said: " It was for a worthy case and I don't regret it."

                              6) You have a lot going on in this weekend! ( You are very busy)

                              7) The manager found out how to deal with the problem by exclaiming " I figured it out!"

                              8)  My brother has been working on his writing skills since last summer.

                              9) I held the table tight while I was shocked by the earthquake.

                            10) When she saw that everything was fine, she breathed a sign of relief and she said: " Oh! Goodness!"

                            11) I will go to the cinema tonight. Care to join me?

                            12) When Tom goes to bed, his mother always says: "Sleep tight! Don't let the bedbugs bite."

                            13) Don't be a nut job!  
                               

Learn on Facebook!

Useful phrases and grammar can be easily found on this page:

https://www.facebook.com/C.EnglishTeacher/photos_albums 

Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs






A


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Β


blow up = ανατινάζω


break down = χαλάω


break in/into = διαρρηγνύω


break out = ξεσπώ/δραπετεύω


break up = χωρίζω, σταματώ ένα δεσμό


bring about = προκαλώ, προξενώ


bring sb/sth along = φέρνω μαζί μου κάποιον ή κάτι (sb=somebody, sth=something)


bring back = επιστρέφω κάτι σε κάποιον


bring on = προκαλώ


bring up sth = λέω, αναφέρω κάτι


bring up sb = αναθρέφω κάποιον


C


call off = ματαιώνω, ακυρώνω


carry on = εξακολουθώ, συνεχίζω να κάνω κάτι


check in = υπογράφω για την διαμονή μου σε ξενοδοχείο


check out = ρίχνω μια ματιά , φεύγω από ένα ξενοδοχείο επιστρέφοντας το κλειδί και πληρώνοντας τον λογαριασμό μου


clean up = καθαρίζω, τακτοποιώ


come across = συναντώ/βρίσκω τυχαία




come along = ακολουθώ, πηγαίνω μαζί με κάποιον ή προοδεύω, προχωρώ
come back from = γυρνώ, επιστρέφω
come down with sth = "κολλάω" μια ασθένεια
come from = προέρχομαι
come round = συνέρχομαι, ανακτώ τις αισθήσεις μου ή επισκέπτομαι, περνώ από κάπου
come up = αναφέρομαι, προκύπτω
come up with = βρίσκω, σκέφτομαι (μια ιδέα,ένα σχέδιο κτλ.)
count on someone = βασίζομαι σε κάποιον


D


do up = επισκευάζω, ανακαινίζω
drop by = επισκέπτομαι κάποιον ή πηγαίνω κάπου (συνήθως χωρίς να το έχω προγραμματίσει)
drop off = πηγαίνω κάτι ή κάποιον κάπου με αυτοκίνητο


F


fill in = συμπληρώνω


G


get sth across to sb = κάνω κάτι σαφές σε κάποιον
get along = τα πηγαίνω καλά με κάποιον