idioms

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• Middelbare school
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The use of idioms in writing is important

Appearance and background

Two peas in a pod

They shared the same sense of humor and zest for life. This idiom is used to say that two people are very similar in either appearance or in character. It alludes to tiny peas in a pod which, more or less all look the same in size, colour.

Write a sentence using the words "two peas in a pod"

An idiom

1. can be taken literal nowadays
2. has a different meaning to the literal one
3. has the same meaning as the literal one

What do you when you give someone the cold shoulder?

What does it mean to rub someone the wrong way?

What does throwing the baby out with the bathwater literally mean?

1. accidentally throwing away the baby with dirty bathwater
2. throwing away the whole bathtub by accident
3. throwing naughty children out of the house
4. throwing out bathwater that is still clean enough to use

The spitting image of

someone or something that looks very much like someone or something else

Write a sentence using the words "spitting image"

all skin and bones

Extremely thin.

Write a sentence using the words "skin and bones"

keeping up appearances

To act as though everything is normal or fine in times of trouble.

Write a sentence using the words
"keeping up appearances"

Is wearing your heart upon your sleeve always about having good "feels"?

1. No, Iago had bad intentions
2. yes and it's a great personality trait
3. only when you wear long sleeves
4. what is a heart

What is the idiom with "hair"
and "place"?

What does the idiom
"mutton dressed up as lamb"
mean?

Which word is wrong?
"Edie looks like ice cream wouldn't melt in her mouth"

1. ice cream
2. melt
3. her
4. mouth

What is the correct idiom with
book and cover?

What does it mean:
"My aunt is a pillar of the community"

1. my aunt is hated
2. my aunt is well respected
3. my aunt is dishonest
4. my aunt is despised

What does it mean;
"she has blue blood"

1. she has a strange illness
2. she is a born author
3. she is of royal descent
4. she is very rich

What does "the wrong side of the tracks" mean?

1. the wrong social background
2. on the other side of the station
3. born before 2000
4. very rich

Homework

Write a description of two people and their relationship by using  at least 5 of the idioms we have discussed today.

You have to use at least 250 words

Hand in your description in Teams Opdrachten