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Dear Class,

Dear Class, Your recent work has simply BLOWN ME AWAY . In fact, I'm so impressed by your attitudes to take the BULL BY THE HORNS that I want to PICK YOUR BRAINS even more!

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  1. Dear Class, Your recent work has simply BLOWN ME AWAY. In fact, I'm so impressed by your attitudes to take the BULL BY THE HORNS that I want to PICK YOUR BRAINS even more! So BITE YOUR TONGUES as we OPEN A CAN OF WORMS to enjoy A BARREL OF LAUGHS together. There will be no need to MAKE A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL because we are continuing our 
adventure in the land of English today...

  2. What is an Idiom? An expression that means something other than the literal meaning of it's individual words.

  3. is a part of one's culture An expression, phrase, or word IDIOM Ex: Kick the Bucket common use of 
expressions that has 
a separate meaning its meaning is not word for word an element of figurative speech

  4. Symphony in Slang By Tex Avery

  5. Instructions: Draw a line from the Idiom to it's meaning. When you're finished, move the 
blue box to see if you are right! You have to work for something to get it. You can't just go out and accidently find it. An inexperienced person in a difficult situation It is really raining a lot. To say the wrong thing. Going through a lot of unnecessary trouble to please someone. To not talk very much. To not accomplish anything. To do something without a real purpose; to be silly or play around. To feel that a little time has passed when actually a lot of time has passed. 3. 1. "Time flies" when you're having fun. 2. Stop "monkeying around!" 3. "Money doesn't grow on trees." 4. He's just "running in circles." 5. She is "as quiet as a mouse." 6. He's just a "babe in the woods." 7. You "put your foot in your mouth." 8. "It's raining cats and dogs." 9. He's "jumping through hoops." 6. 8. 7. 9. 5. 4. 2. 1.

  6. 1.Read each sentence. 2. Choose an idiom that can replace some of the words in the sentence. 3. Drag the idiom to the blue line next to the sentence. 4.. Use the pen to cross out the words that can be replaced by the idiom. (Hint: make sure you cross out ALL words to make the idiom complete the sentence correctly.) When you have finished this page, go to the next page to see the correct answers. is as quiet as a mouse monkeying around put my foot in my mouth a babe in the woods time flies jump through hoops __________________________ 1. Mark is so shy that when he is in a group of people, he doesn't talk much. __________________________ 2. When Scott started junior high school, he was inexperienced and didn't know what to expect. __________________________ 3. Whenever I'm on vacation, I can't believe how the days go by so quickly! 4. When my teacher heard me say "my teacher didn't know math", I definitely knew I said the wrong thing!! __________________________ 5. Our class gets very frustrated when John is acting silly and doesn't really pay attention. __________________________ 6. I told my dad we needed to buy a big screen tv, but he said that we couldn't just go to the store and get one, we'd have to work to earn money to buy it. __________________________ 7. When I asked my boss for a day off, he made me do a lot of unnecessary work before he said ok. __________________________ 8. I tried to get my homework done, but I was distracted, couldn't find the right paper, my pencil broke and I brought home the wrong book. __________________________ 9. When I was in Florida last summer, it was raining so hard that the streets filled up with water. __________________________

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