English Grammar Daily

#SUNDAY #SHORTS 📺 This week’s Sunday short is about IDIOMS. 👉 Click HERE to see the original video! See if you can guess the idioms from the emojis. 🌧 🐈🐈‍⬛ 🐕🐩 It’s raining cats and dogs 🙅‍♀️ ☕️ it's not my cup of tea 🍰 it's a piece of cake 🍎 👁 the apple of one's eye 🌙 🦉 night owl Come back later for the questions!

🎶 #SINGALONG #SATURDAY 🎶 🤓 We've learned about IDIOMS this week and this song has lots of them! 👇 Read the lyrics and guess what the underlined idioms mean! There's a fire starting in my heart Reaching a fever pitch, it's bringing me out of the dark Finally I can see you crystal clear Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare See how I'll leave with every piece of you Don't underestimate the things that I will do There's a fire starting in my heart Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark Pre-chorus: The scars of your love remind me of us They keep me thinking that we almost had it all The scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling Chorus: We could've had it all Rolling in the deep You had my heart inside of your hand And you played it to the beat Baby, I have no story to be told But I've heard one on you, now I'm gonna make your head burn Think of me in the depths of your despair Make a home down there, as mine sure won't be shared Throw your soul through every open door Count your blessings to find what you look for Turn my sorrow into treasured gold You pay me back in kind and reap just what you've sown

🏴‍☠️ TALK LIKE A PIRATE! 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ As tomorrow is INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, let’s take a look at some seafaring-related idioms! 🌪 ‘Batten down the hatches’ was a call to prepare for a storm. Now it means preparation for any difficulties. 🧠 ’The ropes’ is a metaphor for knowledge, so you can ‘know’ or even ’show somebody the ropes’. 🤐 “Pipe down!” Originally a call to go below deck, now it means ‘be quiet’. chock-a-block ⛵️ The ‘jib’ is a small sail on a ship. If you ‘don’t like the cut of someone’s jib’ it means you don’t like their attitude or the way they look. 🥃 Finally ‘three sheets to the wind’ is what many pirates were after a hard day’s pirating - very drunk!

COLOUR #IDIOMS 🎨 IDIOMS can add colour to the language; colour can also make a good idiom! 🟥 A ‘red herring’ is a deliberate distraction. 🐟 ⬜️ A ‘white elephant’ describes a gift that is unwanted. 🐘 🟦 A ‘bolt from the blue’ means some unexpected news. The ‘bolt’ is a lightning bolt ⚡️and the blue the sky. 🟩 If someone has ‘green fingers,’ they’re good at gardening. 👨‍🌾 ⬛️ Farmers would prefer white sheep for wool; now a ‘black sheep’ is an outcast. 🐑

🍞 What do we call this in English?

#BINOMIALS 🤓 BINOMIALS are pairs of words that MUST be in a specific order. If the words are in a different order, it sounds strange: • Postage and packaging is free on all our products. This is true even if the words RHYME: • It’s make or break for United in the semi-final. Sometimes we just repeat the SAME WORD: • He’s been proven wrong time after time. Sometimes binomials are completely IDIOMATIC: • They might be twins but at school they are like chalk and cheese!

#LITERAL OR #FIGURATIVE? 🤓 IDIOMS can be hard to understand if you take them LITERALLY. If we can use a word in its BASIC MEANING, not a metaphor, it’s LITERAL: • I like to put mustard in my sandwich. When it’s not used in in its basic meaning, it’s FIGURATIVE: • The latest article he’s written doesn’t cut the mustard. Let’s take the word ‘buck’ (a male deer) literally: • I slowed down so that a buck could cross the road. IDIOMATICALLY, we combine it with other words for new meaning: • Don’t try to pass the buck - you’re the one responsible.