IV. Compose situations on suggested topics using the idioms studied

1. Two strangers are shouting at each other in the middle of the street.

2. A customer is trying on a skirt, after making some awkward movement she tears it up.

3. A small girl sets her mother’s hand free and runs across the road just in front of the approaching bus.

4. An unexperienced driver bumps into a car in front of him.

5. Two girls are whispering about something in the corner of the class.

6. The secretary hadn’t locked the door of the office and it was robbed.

7. Several doctors are examining a seriously-ill patient.

8. An icicle is falling down on a passer-by.

9. A new shop has been opened near the center of your town.

10. A famous actor has come to your institute to speak about his career and how he has become so successful.

V. Complete the following sentences using the idioms studied

1. He waited for about 10 minutes to let his reply-----.

2. “You speak English perfectly.” “It’s----- to my teacher.”

3. I can’t tell you anything about him. I-----.

4. Whenever she speaks, she never-----.

5. Don’t-----. You see I’m very busy at the moment and can’t read to you.

6. I’ve never seen a person so----- as he is.

7. Even when you have no patience left, try not to-----.

8. -----he`ll be the first in this race.

9. I was really----- when I saw him in the doorway.

10. You can’t even-----. That’s why I don’t want to speak with you any more.

11. When you start-----I’ll listen to you.

12. It is only a bad parent who thinks his child-----.

13. I couldn’t utter a word as I was-----on hearing his explanation.

VI. Make the following story more idiomatic using the idioms studied

“I do not pretend that I was faithful to her. She was not young when I married her and we had been married for ten years. She was small and thin, and she had a bad complexion. She had a bitter tongue. She was a woman who suffered from a fury of possession, and she couldn’t bear me to be attracted to anyone but her. She was jealous not only of the women I knew, but of my friends, my cat, and my books. On one occasion in my absence she gave away a coat of mine merely because I liked none of my coats so well. But I’m of an equable temperament. I will not deny that she bored me, but accepted her acrimonious disposition as an act of God and no more thought of rebelling against it than I would against bad weather or a cold in the head. I denied her accusations as long as it was possible to deny them, and when it was impossible I shrugged my shoulders and smoked a cigarette.” (W.S. Maugham)

VII. Make up a humorous story using the idioms studied lesson 13

let alone – not to mention, to say nothing of

1. That was the best you could say of it – this next war could not last for months, let alone for years. (A. Barker)

2. Yet he was much, too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask. (D. Lawrence)

3. And it certainly wouldn’t be fair to her, confronting her with something that could hardly fail to disturb and upset her in the short run, let alone what might happen later. (k. Amis)

to come back to – to recall, to remember

1 .And the old saying came back to him: “A man’s fate lies in his own heart.” (J. Galsworthy)