Uzbekistan and the world Idioms about Earth

Uzbekistan and the world

Idioms about Earth

• 1.    down to earth – unpretentious, practical, realistic  2.    earth to someone – used to get someone’s attention 3.    earth-shattering – important, shocking, traumatic 4.    from the ground up – completely, from top to bottom  5.    heaven on earth – a pleasant/enjoyable place or situation, somewhere that feels like paradise  6.    hell on earth – an extremely unpleasant place or situation

• 7.  to cost the earth – to cost a lot of money 8 like nothing on earth – very strange/unusual, like nothing else 9.    on the ground – where the real, practical work is being done 10.  salt of the earth – someone/a group of people who is/are kind, reliable, and honest  11.  stomping/stamping ground – a regular haunt, somewhere someone spends a lot of time 12.  the face of the earth – anywhere (used for emphasis) 13.  to break (new/fresh) ground – to do something innovative, to discover something  14.  to bring someone back to earth – to pull someone out of excitement or a daydream 

Homework: 1) Mixed letters - EXAMS A really fun way to review vocabulary at the end of the lesson or the week is to mix up the letters of each word. Write a word or words on the board.The students then race to identify the vocabulary.

• lifa
• fail
• usjbect
• tste
• xmeaniatoin
• ssap
• pdlimoa
• aerpp
• eurslt
• Amtch
• grdae
• Dnamissoi
• erxecies
• armk
• tkae
• qliyuaf
• cprojet
• sieths
• yessa

2) Mixed sentences – EXAMS

Rearrange the words to make complete sentences.

1. applied / school / law / admission / for / she’s / to

2. marketing / got / she’s / a / in / diploma

3. homework / essay / pollution / write / want / I / you / to / on / an / for

4. we / CAE / we / studying / because / hard / want / are / pass / to

5. end / at / chapter / of / the / book / exercises / the / has / every

6. fail / work / if / she’ll / she / all / exams / her / doesn’t

7. FCE / Carla / in / a / grade A / got

8. be / down / for / spelling / poor / punctuation / and / you’ll / marked

9. exercise / match / country / city / capital / in / to / you / have / the / first / each / to / its

10. must / candidates / two / answer / questions / paper / each / from

11. very / year / of / end / was / the / difficult / examination

12. college / special / in / had / do / our / third / at / year / everyone / to / project / a

13. 1992 / medicine / in / in / qualified / he

14. results / the / posted / your / exam / be / home / will / to / address

15. school / geography / history / at / favourite / my / were / subjects / and

16. pronunciation / I / course / in / took / a / English

17. you’ve / tested / studied / you’ll / on / term / this / be / everything

18. thesis / took / time / doctoral / write / to / it / a / long / my

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