2. SESSION 8 DEVELOPING LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS

3. ENJOYMENT AND APPRECIATION: IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS ACT 1: Funny ha ha To develop listening and speaking skills for enjoyment ACT 2: More than one meaning To enable teachers to study idiomatic expressions and explore new vocabulary

4. ACTIVITY 1: FUNNY HA HA 1.Listen to the story “The Pekingese”. 2.Identify facts and details, infer and evaluate the story. 3.Answer the following questions. a.What kind of dog did Henry buy? b.Why did he buy the dog? c.What does the dog know? d.What size is the dog? e. How does one express disbelief? Small & scrawny To protect his wife karate A Pekingese ………, my foot!

5. A Storyteller’s skills repetitionemphasis Delivery elements pausetransition Be earnest Animation Enthusiasm

6. ACTIVITY 2: MORE THAN ONE MEANING Idiomatic expression MeaningIdiomatic expression put by put up with put up put off drop in look down on get away with to reserve for later use to give up; discard I try to PUT some money BY every month towards our summer holiday. To tolerate, to endureI can't PUT UP WITH my neighbour's noise any longer; it's driving me mad. Allow someone to stay at your house for a night or a few days. She PUT me UP for the night because I'd missed the last bus and there were no night buses running. i.Postpone ii.Stop liking something or somebody i.The concert's been PUT OFF until next month because the singer's got a throat infection. ii.I was really PUT OFF by the way he eats with his mouth open. Visit without having made arrangements I was in the area so I DROPPED IN at the office to see her. Have a low opinion ofHe LOOKS DOWN ON his colleagues because he thinks he's better than they are. Not get caught, criticised or punished for doing something wrong Thieves GOT AWAY WITH two Picassos, which were never found

7. More idiomatic expressions He tried and tried and tried but in the end he decided the time had come to throw in the towel. You certainly couldn't call him modest because he's always blowing his own trumpet. Saying how clever he is You can always rely on him to throw a spanner in the works and suddenly everything stops. Make things go wrong Stop trying

8. Washed Up at Eighteen? It was the morning of the final exam. I had stayed up very late the night before reading up on my English. I woke up late that morning; I was tired, nervous and had to hurry up. I had really got up on the wrong side of the bed. My sister was kicking up a fuss at breakfast so I told her to shut up because if she kept it up she would really get my back up and I wouldn’t put up with it.stayed up reading up on got up on the wrong side of the bedkicking up a fuss get my back up Mom knew I was fed up with things and not feeling up to par, but let me borrow the car so I wouldn’t be late for the exam. I backed up the car but forgot to buckle up. There was no let up in the traffic and the car was acting up, making strange noises. A cop pulled up next to me and signalled me to stop. I was up in arms when he gave me a ticket for not wearing my seat belt. Then a hose blew up in the car and I had to push it to the curb.feeling up to parno let up acting upup in arms blew up I had to face up to the fact that I was getting even later. I dug up some money from my pocket. I called up my Mom and owned up to the problem with the car. I used up the remaining change to take the bus. While sitting there I tried to bone up on my English some more, but I had to put up with the noise from my fellow passengers.bone up on By the time I got to school I did not feel up to snuff. The teacher asked me, “What’s up?” I decided to play it up and try for some sympathy, but the teacher told me to shape up and pull up my socks. I prayed for some questions that would be up my alley, but I had no such luck. When I saw the questions, I knew I was up the creek. I had to face up to the fact that I could not measure up on that exam.feel up to snuffplay it up shape up pull up my socksup my alleyup the creek I gave up and pulled up stakes. Maybe I should just forget about school and join up. I feel all washed up and I’m only eighteen.pulled up stakesjoin up washed up

9. Activity 3: Put on your thinking caps 1.In groups, create a story using 10 idiomatic expressions. 2.Present your story. 3.Vote on the best story based on the evaluation criteria. evaluation criteria