Mystery of English idioms Project work by Kozyakova M., 11L

Aims To represent my project devoted to English idioms to my classmates To increase knowledge of the English language To get some students interested in learning English idioms. To compare translation of Russian and English idioms

Tasks To find out how popular idioms are among young people To get to know more about the structure of the English language To hold a questionnaire among pupils about how well they know English idioms To compare the results of the answers between the pupils of the 11th and 7th forms

The relevance of the work Nowadays it is essential for young generation to know more about English idioms for some reasons: Idioms help to make our speech closer to native speaker’s one Idioms enable to broaden horizons Idioms help to increase vocabulary

Idioms words, phrases, or expressions that are not interpreted logically or literally. It means succession of words whose meaning isn’t obvious through knowledge of the individual words but must be learnt as a whole.

I am on Cloud 9!

Extremely Happy Cloud 9

Ms. Merendino is absent today because she is under the weather.

Under the weather = Feeling sick

Do you like my backpack it costs an arm and a leg.

An arm and leg A large amount of money =

There will be a big test tomorrow, I need to hit the books.

Hit the books = To study hard

Results of the test

The frequency of usage of idioms

Thank you for your attention!