Lesson opener 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3-6

What are idioms?

Idioms and meaning

Idioms are expressions which have a meaning that is not obvious from the individual words - For example the idiom drive someone round the bend means make someone angry or frustrated, but we cannot know this from just looking at the words. 

The best way to understand an idiom is to see it in context. If someone says: That noise is driving me round the bend!, It's so annoying! Then the context and common sense tells us that drive round the bend means something different from driving a car round a curve in the road. The context tells us the noise is really annoying and is having an effect on the person hearing it. 

1. Happiness 

Extreme Happiness

There are many informal idioms which mean extremely happy

I'm on cloud nine

I'm over the moon

I'm in seventh heaven

I'm thrilled to bits.

I am/feel on top of the world

Homework

Vocabulary

Character adjectives

Exercises 1 -4 on page 12

Review of the tenses GR p166-169

Page 12 in your Result book

Let's have a quick re-cap: How to recognise a tense!

• Present simple /Past simple /Future (simple)
• Present continuous (verb to be+verb+ing) Past  continuous (was/were +verb+ing)  Future continuous (will be going/ we are leaving)


• Present perfect (*have + PP * I've/we've/they've/you've)/ Past perfect (*had + PP * I'd/she'd/he'd/we'd/you'd they'd)
• Present perfect continuous(have + been + verb + ing)/ Past perfect continuous (had + been + verb + ing)

If you are unsure.....

Either look at the Grammar review on page 166 or the next slides in this LessonUp Or watch the video at home (last slide).

Past perfect

Use the Past perfect to put events that happened in the past in order:

The robber had run away by the time the police arrived. 

Sentences in the Past perfect

The school had closed before the summer holiday because of Corona virus.

I had travelled to England before the quarantine started

Past perfect continuous

The Past continuous is used to emphasise a longer action. This action continues up to the time of the main action.

I wasn't suprised that Dave and Amy emigrated. They had been thinking about it for years. 

Sentences with the Past perfect continuous

I knew that Coen would pass the CAE. He had been studying hard for two years. 

She wanted to go on a World trip all her life, she had been saving for years.

I hoped the library wouldn't notice I hadn't returned the book. I had been avoiding them for months.

In pairs: Exercises 1 up to and including 3

Remember: 

Certain verbs are never used in the continuous form and that some of the most common of these are verbs which express :

a) thoughts or opinions

b) likes or preferences

c) states or possession 

Look at GR p169 on Continuous verbs Before you do tasks 4-6 

What is wrong with this (gramatically speaking? 

Verbs of  'like and preference 'should not use the continuous (ing) form. Grammatically speaking this internationally recognized slogan should say: I love it!

homework

Read GR p169 on Continuous verbs and do tasks 4-6 

Please write the answers in your notebooks as I want to check the answers : )