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American Idioms, Phrasal Verbs and Slang. ESL Tech Center Workshop Shoreline CC, Shoreline, WA USA. Can you wrap your head around this?. My dog kicked the bucket last night. Learning idioms is a piece of cake! That’s cool! What’s up? I had to give up my car. The payments were killing me.
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American Idioms, Phrasal Verbs and Slang ESL Tech Center Workshop Shoreline CC, Shoreline, WA USA
Can you wrap your head around this? My dog kicked the bucket last night. Learning idioms is a piece of cake! That’s cool! What’s up? I had to give up my car. The payments were killing me. • Idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang are all expressions whose meaning is not predictable.
Idioms • 20 most commonly used idioms http://www.englishforums.com/content/lessons/20-most-common-idioms-in-english-and-what-they-mean.htm Get an online lesson on idioms! http://www.engvid.com/english-idioms-bird/
Test yourself! How many idioms do you know? • http://www.englishclub.com/ref/Idioms/Quizzes/index.htm • http://www.world-english.org/englishidiomstest.htm
Phrasal Verbs are two part verbs that have unpredictable meanings. For Example: Click below for some lists, plus quizzes at the end: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-list.htm http://www.englishclub.com/ref/Phrasal_Verbs/index.htm • Take out • Get up • Give in • Put up with • Run into
Get your self a phrasal verb of the day!!! • http://www.englishclub.com/ref/phrasal-verb-of-the-day.php
Let’s wrap it up! Test yourself here! This website lets you practice idioms, phrasal verbs, and slang. So, you can kill 3 birds with one stone. http://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.html