SAYINGS and Common Phrases in American English

A souvenir from The 80s Camp
7th, 8th and 9th December 2012:)

• Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched
• I’m blown away!
• Ignorance is bliss. What you don’t know won’t hurt you.
• What doesn’t kill you, make you stronger.
• Up shit creek without a paddle.
• Six of one, half a dozen the other.
• If it was a snake, it would have bitten you.
• You can’t see the woods for the trees.
• Shit happens.
• They are two peas in a pod.
• That is the last straw!
• Happy as a pig in shit.
• When the shit hits the fan.
• When it rains, it pours. ( good or bad)
• Is the Pope catholic? ( obvious)
• The actress said to the bishop! ( after a dirty line)
• Hungry as a horse
• It’s neck to neck ( very close)
• You can’t have the cake and eat it too.
• You’ve dug your own grave.
• All bark and no bite.
• To be a YES man
• He wouldn’t hurt a fly.
• Like a dog with a bone.
• I have ghandis flip flop in my mouth/ as dry as ghandis flip flop.
• It’s a dog eat dog world.
• You’ve made your bed, now sleep in it.
• Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
• The early bird gets the best worm.
• Idle hands are the devil’s playground.
• I’m gonna make like a tree and leave.
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack.
• To be over the moon.
• To be on cloud nine ( in love)
• Walking on sunshine.
• To be under the weather ( sick)
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• Home is where the heart is.
• Let bygones be bygones.
• Put your foot down ( to be stubborn)
• Put your money where your mouth is.
• Put the pedal to the metal ( a las chapas)
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it. (Take that!)
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
• Youre preaching to the choir.
• Put-luck: To have a pot-luck)
• You’re plaing with fire.
• To burn the bridges.
• He’s playing hardball ( very stern, stubborn)
• It’s as plain as the nose on your face. ( obvious)
• To hit the nail on the head
• Liar, liar pants on fire. ( for kids)
• As easy as a pie
• Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
• It gets under your skin.
• Walk a mile in another mans shoes.

END -OF- TERM Celebration!!!

THANKS for SHARING
 THIS YEAR TOGETHER!!!!!!!!

HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY SEASON and
MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE in 2013!!!!!

With love,
AA

PASSWORD:

• A quotation by your character!!!! ( real or imaginary)

B&B for the last class!!!!

• Choose a character from the films we watched this year. 
• Dress up as this character ( one item of clothing would be Ok!)
• Prepare a presentation or short speech about yourself.

Mr Viktor Navorsky ( a traveller)

 Mr Jack Hall (a climatologist)

 Jack Sparrow (a pirate)

 Young Elizabeth( a princess)

  The Zorro (an avenger)

Shrek (a cartoon ogre) 

 Mr. Nathan Algren ( a USA Captain / samurai warrior)

 John Anderton ( a pre-crime police officer)

 Maximus ( a Roman soldier) 

Marcus ( a Roman Emperor)

or any other...... 

Good luck!!!!!!!!!!

VOCABULARY FOCUS:

Sanitation: the systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect people's health
Scrolls: a long roll of paper or similar material with usually official writing on it

Consuls: an official chosen by a government to live in a foreign city, in order to take care of people from the official's own country who travel or live there, and to protect the trade interests of that government

To head: to be in charge of a group or organization

She heads one of Britain's leading travel firms.

Rome wasn't built in a day : All things take time to create. And great things like the city of Rome took a very long time. So we shouldn't expect to accomplish something or achieve success immediately.

GRAMMAR FOUS:

Phrasal verbs:
To pick on: to criticize, annoy, or punish someone repeatedly and unfairly:He gets picked on because he’s small.
To run into: to meet someone by chance.
To dress down: to wear more informal clothes to work than you usually do:Staff have been told that they can dress down on Fridays.
To give in: to decide to do what someone else wants.
To bear down: on someone or sth. to move toward someone or something in a way that is threatening
To tee off: to make someone very angry: It really tees me off when she won’t listen to me.
To load up on sth: to gather a large amount of something:The tourists started loading up on perfume and cosmetics.
To sit in for: to fulfill a responsibility for another person:The vice president will sit in for the president at today’s meeting.

Sentences with phrasal verbs:
• We haven’t ruled out the possibility of a cure. (to stop considering something as a possibility )
• The competition judges picked out he best display. ( to choose, find, or recognize something or someone in a group )
• The little boy’s ears stuck out from under his school cap. ( to reach beyond the surface or edge of something )
• Tracy’s boyfriend took her out to the disco
• The steam train pulled slowly out of the station. ( to leave )
• The royal servants laid out the banquet in the palace. ( to arrange in a pattern or design; to plan something by showing how its parts fit together )
• The farmer found it hard to keep the foxes out of the chicken shed.( to prevent something or someone from entering a place )
• I can’t quite make out Marcella’s handwriting. ( to see, hear, or understand something or someone with difficulty )
• When my favourite sweater wore out, I bought another one just like it.
• Just as we set out, there was a clap of thunder. ( to begin to carry out a plan of action )

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