Thursday, February 4, 2016

Good morning! The first thing we're going to do today is to follow-up on the all the interesting, useful, and varied idioms from the Dictation Triptych on Rec Jobs.

So here are your tasks:

  1. Identify 10 most useful idioms and create a sentence with each one, a sentence that brings out the meaning most clearly.
  2. Using a different work situation, e.g. a restaurant or grocery store, use those sentences in a conversation between a manager and a worker. Feel free to insert interesting details of your own.
  3. Have 3 classmates check your dialogue before publishing it.
  4. Add a picture.
  5. Create an audio recording.
1.hit the road -- to leave a place or begin a journey.
I had better hit the road If I'm to be back home before dark.
2.be so kind as to --This a very polite and formal way of asking somebody to do something.
"Would you be so kind as to help me cross the road?"
"Of course. May I take your hand?"
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3.bob's your uncle---anything will be fine
if you want to have a nice and healthier body, don't eat junkies and follow the doctor's advice and bob's your uncle.
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4.you betcha--of course
you betcha! when we got in there, it was pandemonium in the classroom.
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5.bright-eyed and bushy tailed--alert and ready to do something; as alert and as active as a squirrel. 
You look all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning.
he arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at the studio.
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