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Idioms and Slang Discussion: In pairs, ask and answer these questions:

• Do people in your home country use idioms or slang? Do the young people use a lot of slang? What is one of the

common idioms or slang words used in your native language? What does it mean literally?

In your home country do some groups of people use slang more than others? (An age group? An economic group?

A social group?) Do you know something about people just by listening to the way they talk?

In America where do you hear the most slang and idioms used? When is it most difficult for you to understand

English? (Conversations, TV shows, news, telephone, business, etc.)

Have you heard any strange slang words or idioms lately? Do you know what they mean? Talk with a partner.

In English, we have animal and/or food words in many of our idioms and slang. Is it the same in your native

language? If not, what is a common topic in your idioms and slang?

Here are some common American expressions. What do they 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.

With your partner(s) write a dialogue using 5 of these idioms or slang words.

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