Day 3: Conversation Composition using idioms
Today’s objectives
Students are expected to use idioms in real life situations.
Today’s activity
1. Checking assignment (5min.)
Each person in each group will present their homework
2. Showing movie clips containing everyday used idioms (20minutes)
* Students are expected to find out about what they already know about
1. The basis on which posterity will rank our civilization is the quality of our ideas. Our position among civilizations is determined by the _________.
① location of our civilization ② value of our thought
③ influence we have ④ rigidity of our thought
⑤ quantity of our thought
2. As you drive a car on a straight road where the sun is beating down, you may seem to see a shim
① Contraction with “not”
(3) a. He shouldn’t see her.
b. *He worksn’t with her
→ Main verbs cannot contract with not.
(4) a. He may not come.
b. *He mayn’t come.
c. We shan’t be very long.
d. We won’t be very long.
→ May cannot contract with not.
Shan’t exists only in British English.
② Subject-aux inversion in yes/no questions &
tag questions
1. The Great Chain of Being Metaphor
(Christian explanation of hierarchical structure of being from God to the lowest non-being)
-> Dung recognized as filthy thing in
human being’s conceptual frame
2. Rich Image Metaphor
(Low abstraction, low systematicity of mapping, importance of cultural knowledge, conventionality)
->Dung is used in many words which contain negative images in
20 is obviously a wish-fulfillment dream, though Blake would not have been familiar with this Freudian terminology. It is also a miniature allegory, capable of two interpretations, one applying to this world, the other to the next. On the first level--most obviously the wish-fulfillment level--the "coffins of black" are the chimneys the boys work in; the "Angel" who releases them is a wise legisl