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Idioms through EC Tool Box (Game-4)

Posted on: 16 Mar, 2009|Comments: 2|Views: 190|Likes: 1| INT

Idioms through EC Tool Box:

 

 

Please choose the correct idioms from the following list within brackets,  to match with the  meanings given from 1-5.

 

(the pot calling the kettle black, take pot-luck,  a watched pot never boils, keep the pot boiling, go to pot)

 

Steps to follow:

 

-Choose the idiom.

-Copy it as suggestion instead of xxxxxxxxxxxxxx words.

 

Hope this game is interesting to learn and play.  Answers are given as a document at http://www.englishcafe.com/node/14585

 

 

 

1)To get into a bad or worse state(refers to meat  being cut up and stewed in a pot)-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

2)To keep something going or operating-yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

3)To have a meal at someone's house, without any special preparations-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

4)Criticizing someone for doing something that he does himself-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

5)When one is waiting for something to happen, the time taken seems longer if one is constantly thinking about it-bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

 

 

 

 

gomathigomathi

Have added the answers for this game in a document http://www.englishcafe.com/node/14585    Thanks Kenneth for reminding me:)

KennethKenneth

Could you post the answers and link to them in a document? It's always helpful to be able to check your answers. Thanks.

   
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