Give me some of your best idioms?
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1) Let's have a butcher's = Let's have a look at (something). This is a uniquely British idiom and comes from cockney rhyming slang. 2) To be between the devil and the deep blue sea = To be in a VERY difficult situation where all the options you have are bad ones. 3) It'll knock the backside off a concrete elephant = Something that is very strong, potent or powerful. Again, a uniquely British idiom.
1. It takes two to tango 2. Variety is the spice of life 3. Every cloud has a silver lining
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I am on cloud nine Bread and butter It's a steal Born with a silver spoon in your mouth
- JennyCertified ESL Teacher who helps her student in Conversational English.
my favourite is "apple of the eye" :)
Spill the beans Under the weather Kill two birds with one stone Over the moon Break a leg Through thick and thin Once in a blue moon
I know someone or something like the back of my hand. I eat like a horse or bird. Let alone
- SamanthaCertified and friendly ESL teacher with 1year formal teaching experience ready to help you learn.
''What goes around comes around..''
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"' To kill two birds with one stone "'
The best of both worlds. Time flies when you're having fun.
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- Can you share your experience how you teach students conditionals?
What kind of method do you use to explain clearly each conditional for students? Do you provide some examples from real life and how you do it? Thank you!
Best answer
Tsebo Lucia Lehloa
The best approach is to expose students to the what conditionals are through explanation. Explain all the types of conditionals providing examples for each. Then the details of the structure of each type of conditionals would better come last, then strengthen understanding by having the student produce written and spoken language. Lastly, expose them to more reading and real life listening examples regarding this, sometimesas homework. To gauge their understanding of the structure, give fill in exercises.
- Could you explain me, please, when I need to use 0,1,2,3 and mixed conditionals? Thank you!
Can you provide examples?
Best answer
Mixed conditional combined second and third conditionals to talk about the past situations has a present consequence or a present situations that is a result of a past action Structure: If + past perfect + would +verb If I had studied medicine, I would be a doctor now.
