Idiom Box
(a) Complete the following definitions with the correct idioms from the box making the essential changes
pulled strings face the music on the tip of your tongue out of sight, out of mind eat out of the palm of sb’s hand ring a bell call the tune |
1. If you say that someone is ……………………your……….., you have made him very willing to believe you or do what you want
2. If someone ……………………to get something they want, they get it by using their friendships with powerful and influential people often in a way that is considered unfair.
3. If you say that someone ………………………, he is in a position of authority so that he can give orders and make decisions.
4. If you say that you …………………………, you are ready to accept criticism or punishment for something you have done.
5. If something ……………….., it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is
6. If a name or word is ……………….., you usually know it but have difficulty remembering it at the present moment
7. You use …………………… to say that people soon stop thinking about other people if they do not see them for a while.
(b) Match up the following jokes and quotes
1. What is HNO3? Just a minute. It’s on the tip of my tongue…
2. If you think you have someone eating out of the palm of your hand,
3. “Out of sight, out of mind,” when translated into Russian (by computer) then back again,
4. Name a man who originated studies into conditioned reflexes.
5. My brother’s a puppeteer. How did he get a job like that?
6. He’s always willing to face the music
a. Oh, he pulled a few strings.
b. – so long he can call the tune.
c. it’s a good idea to count your fingers.
Martin Buxbaum
d. became Invisible maniac.”
Arthur Calder-Marshal
e. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
f. Well, spit it out. It’s nitric acid.
Higher Education in the USA
UNIT 2
I. Before you read
Wise People Talk
Discuss the quotations in groups. To what extent do you agree with the authors?
Education has in America’s whole history been the major for improving the individual and society.
Gunnar Myrdal Swedish social scientist and Nobel laureate
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Billie Joe Armstrong
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom, go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.
F rank Zappa, American composer and rock musician
Phrase Bank
To go right to the heart of the problem…
There’s a diversity of opinions among…
One can state even more categorically that…
I’m not claiming there’s anything new in this all
There’s uncertainty about the precise cause behind this...