English Exercices

Idioms

Fill in the gaps with items for the list, then explain the idioms in your own words. Are there similar idioms in your language?

-appearances –face –eye - ears- lips –teeth –tongue – ear

1. The insurance industry is smocking its_______________at the prospect of more and more people wanting to insure their possessions.

2. Despite the fact that he was in very serious money trouble, he was still concerned with keeping up_______________.

3. He wanted to say something, but he bit his_______________ and decided not to get involved in the argument.

4. Steve and I do not always see eye to________________, but we do our best to get along.

5. Her colleagues thought that she had the manager’s_______________ so they would often go to her with requests or complaints.

6. Two essays and a presentation due next week should give you plenty to sink your_______________ teeth into.

7. She pretends to be poor, but the truth in she’s got money coming out of her_______________.

8. When the boy saw his mother serving the vegetables he pulled a ________________ in disgust.

Reading

Read the e-mail and Answer the questions.

Angie's E-mail

Date: May 20, 2012 10:00 AM

From: Angie Smith <angiesmith@email.com>

To: Brenda Rivers <brivers@fashionnow.com>

Subject: My life

It was great to talk to you on the phone yesterday. It sounds like your life is going pretty well. My life is pretty good too. I've been married now for 3 years. Do you remember Max Shaffer from our biology class in high school? I married him. We have a beautiful baby girl named Anna. I've worked at Wilson High School as a history teacher since I graduated from college. It's really weird being a teacher at the high school that I attended. Some of the same teachers are still working there. Do you remember old Mrs. Johnson, the mean math teacher who we thought was about 100 years old? Well, believe it or not, she's still working there. She's worked at that school FOREVER. She'll probably drop dead one day while she's teaching fractions. I can't wait to see you next month. I've never been to Chicago but my neighbor lived there for 10 years. She's given me a list of things that I HAVE to do while I'm in Chicago. She says that the pizza in Chicago is the best

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