Andijon davlat universiteti ingliz tili fonetikasi kafedrasi til aspektlari amaliyoti

Here are some common American expressions. What do they mean? When are they are

used? First look at them with a partner, and then share with the whole group.

Idiomatic expression or slang	When is it used?	What does it mean?
It costs an arm and a leg. I am so hungry I could eat a horse. She let the cat out of the bag. He is a couch potato. I am going to catch some z’s. She spilled the beans. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. His bark is worse than his bite. She wears her heart on her sleeve. He is really cool. She is a backseat driver I bent over backwards to help them. Cross your fingers! Those children drive me up the wall. That was the icing on the cake. I’m on the fence about it. She made the cake from scratch.

Lesson 38. Final task

Module:	Vocabulary
Topic:	Final task
Time:	80 minutes
Aims	to work on final assessment

Sample tasks for Mid-course assessment on Vocabulary
1. Banked gap filling

Task 1

Read the text below and fill in the gaps 1-5 using the words in the box. There are more words than you need. There is an example (0) at the beginning of the text.

a) another	b) at	c) extra	d) though
е) to	f) too	g) wonderful	h) wondering

Dear Harry,

Since I won’t be able to send you (0) ___a___ letter soon, happy birthday. I am having a great time here with Viktor (1) ______ his house, I hope you are doing well with your aunt and uncle. Even (2) ______ I’ve been with Viktor, I have been doing a lot of thinking, especially about what Dumbledore said last year. Since You-Know-Who (most wizards were (3) ______ afraid to use Voldemort’s real name, so they said ‘You-Know-Who’ instead) is back, you’ll have to be (4) ______ careful since you do seem to run into him often. I’ve also been (5) ______ about what the jobs are that Dumbledore sent everyone to do. I guess we’ll find out this September.

Sincerely,

Hermione

Key: 1b, 2d, 3f, 4c, 5h
Focus: this type of task focuses on student’s knowledge of vocabulary items from the

vocabulary list. The strategy that students apply in this task is recognition of the word which

should be used in the given context: deciding whether the word suits the gap semantically

(meaning) and grammatically (form).