Can you guess the meaning of the presented idioms? I DARE YOU! ;-)
Button your lips
Drive someone up the wall
Elephant in the room
High as a kite
Living on the edge
Mad as a hatter
Raising the roof
Sitting duck
Sitting on a fence
Storm in a teacup
The grass is greener on the other side
Through the roof
Time flies
Think outside the box
Couch potato
Cut corners
Practice time!!!
Match the idioms with their meaning: 1. Button your lips 2. Storm in a teacup 3. Through the roof 4. Think outside the box 5. Couch potato 6. Cut corners a) A small event exaggerated out of proportion b) Shut up! Be quiet! c) A person who likes doing nothing just watching TV d) Think differently, unconventionally e) Do something in the easiest and inexpensive way f) To become very angry
Make your own sentences using those idioms 1._____________________________________ 2._____________________________________ 3._____________________________________ 4._____________________________________ 5._____________________________________
Look up the rest of the idioms in the dictionary and give an example sentence of your own IdiomsExamples
Idioms Examples
HW: Use some of the idioms to write a short story using as many idioms as possible (150 word limit )