So here are your tasks:
- Identify 10 most useful idioms and create a sentence with each one, a sentence that brings out the meaning most clearly.
- 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.
- Have 3 classmates check your dialogue before publishing it.
- Add a picture.
- 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?"
"Of course. May I take your hand?"
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.
4.you betcha--of course
you betcha! when we got in there, it was pandemonium in the classroom.
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.
A great start, Xiaoyun.
ReplyDeleteWould you like to post some of your more recent artefacts?