... Five Idioms 61–70
Test Six Idioms 71–90
Test Seven Idioms 91–100
After every ten idioms and in a list at the end of the dictionary section, you will find some Phrases Just
for Fun. These idioms ... »
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American Idioms and Some Phrases Just for Fun
An ESL Meaning and Usage Workbook
—
Contains Both Practice Exercises and Tests—
by
Edward Swick
Do...
... against someone or something
7
affiliate (
someone or something
) with
someone or something
Go to affiliate (
someone or something
) to
someone or some-
thing.
affinity for
someone or something
a ... bread and butter”
some amount of money
“about three bucks”
somehow
“without much effort”
someone
“Fred”
some place
“the kitchen”
something
“a toaster”
sometime
“at noon”
and
someo...
... improve their mental and
physical skills, develop their self-expression and independent thinking, and foster their learning in
general.
Play and just simply having fun is, and should be, a young ... Don’t scratch too hard. Just enough
so that the black layer comes off and your bright
colors show through underneath!
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This is a fun game for one person, and even more f...
... SOME USEFUL IDIOMS AND PHRASES (part1)
1/
- be on probation for: thời gian quản chế
- yield to SO/ST: nhường chỗ; đầu hàng, chịu ... thức ăn/serving
- Have real talent for doing ST
- Make a slip: lỡ lời
8/
- Boarding school: trường nội trú
- Disregard of /for SO/ST: ignore
- Linger on/ hesitate for: chần chừ, nấn ná
- A storm ... ai
- Play for time: kéo dài thời gian
- Rough a...
... 2 : some Aspects of American culture and society in
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through short
literary works
II.2.1. American informality
The American are very well-known for their ... never forgave her daughter and her husband for that. The ending of the
story that Norma and her husband splitted up in Shiloh was the beginning of another war, the
war betwe...
... as product and as process5
2.1.4 Thematization 6
2.2 Some major linguistic features 6
2.2.1 Modality 6
2.2.2 Active and Passive voices 7
2.2.3 Kinds of Sentence 7
2.2.4 Special Words/ Phrases 8
2.2.5 ... discourse structure and some major linguistic features
of the International Declaration on Human Rights 11
3.3.1 The Beginning 11
3.3.1.1 The Title and Preamble of the Declarat...
... providing insights into the problems and processes of language use and
language learning, and is therefore of great importance to language teachers. Traditionally,
language teaching has concentrated ... Cook G. (1989), Discourse, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
7. Cook G. (1994), Discourse and Literature: The Interplay of Form and Mind. Oxford
University Press, Oxford.
8. Coulth...
... procedures for the
establishment of social programmes to provide necessary support for the child and for those
who have the care of the child, as well as for other forms of prevention and for identification, ... universal respect for and observance of human rights and
fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest...
... the first and the third parts are to test
grammar and vocabulary, the second part is about writing skill, Part IV and V are supposed
to test some writing skills with sentence building and sentence ... teaching is good and appropriate and the testing is not, we are then likely to suffer from
harmful backwash. Test result will give information for both teachers and learners...