Ul Tate Cools [ue = to) All Clear Listening and Speaking s d Editi With Collocations — atom Helen Kalkstein FragiadakisListening and Speaking Helen Kalkstein Fragiadakis THOMSON HEINLE Australia» Canada » Mexico « Singapore » Spain + United Kingdom + United StatesTHOMSON i HEINLE All Clear 3 ening and Speaking Helen Kalkstein Fragiadakis Publisher, Academic ESL: James W. Brown Executive Editor, Dictionaries and Adult ESL: Sherrise Rochr Director of Content Development: Anita Raducanu Associate Development Editor: Katie Carroll Associate Development Editor: Jennifer Meldrum Director of Product Marketing: Amy Mabley Senior Field Marketing Manager: Donna Lee Kennedy Associate Marketing Manager: Caitlin Driscoll Copyright © 2007 by Thomson Heinle, a part of The ‘Thomson Corporation. Thomson, the Star logo, and Heinle are trademarks used herein under license. Al rights reserved. 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Any additional questions about permissions can be submitted by email to thomsonrights@thomson.com, ISBN 10: 1-4130-1705- ISBN 13: 978-1-4130-1705-2 ISE ISBN 10: 1-4130-2099-2 ISE ISBN 13: 978-1-4130-2099-1To my Family, yesterday and today— Acknowledgements The original All Clear idioms text came out more than twenty years ago, and the additional two texts at higher and lower levels appeared years later. It was always my dream for these three texts to become a comprehensive listening and speaking series using idioms and other expressions as springboards for activities, and I have many people to thank for making this dream come true. ‘To Jim Brown, publisher, and Sherrise Roehr, executive editor, thank you for getting the ball rolling on this project. To Katie Carroll and Jennifer Meldrum, my developmental editors, thank you for your wonderful attention, and detailed suggestions. To Maryellen Eschmann-Killeen and the rest of the production team, thank you for your enthusiasm and creativity. Twould also like to express my gratitude to the many colleagues who over the years gave me extremely valuable feedback, which I incorporated into the new editions. I would especially like to thank Inocencia Dacumos, Rosemary Loughman, Helen Munch, Kathleen Papert, Ellen Rosenfield, and Larry Statan. Aig thank you goes to my daughter Melissa, who for years has enthusiastically given me feedback to help make the language in All Clear dialogues as natural as possible. Thank you, Melissa, for using your wonderful sense of what people really say to answer such questions as "How would you say this?”, "Would you ever say that?”, "Does this sound natural?”, and "What's another way to say... 2” I would also like to thank my many students for their interest and insightful questions as I taught with the All Clear texts. While teaching, I jotted down your questions in the textbook margins. And then, while revising the texts, I used your questions as guides to improve the material. Finally, I would like to thank Michael Lewis, who has put the lexical approach in the center stage of language acquisition. I wrote the first All Clear in the early 1980's, and ten years later it was a revelation to hear Lewis talk about the value of teaching “chunks” of language—collocations and fixed expressions. I have found that focusing on lexical items (many, but not all of them, idiomatic) in a natural dialogue can pri le concrete material that can serve as a springboard for numerous activities in a listening/speaking class. Thank you, Michael Lewis, for bringing the lexical approach to the forefront of language teaching and learning. Helen Kalkstein Fragiadakis March, 2006CONTENTS eter! pee RETR oe eects Ber ets et ame cS ECL Tecbreaker LESSON 1— Meeting ‘What's eating you?; get something Conversation Stress and Ata Party— New People offone'’s chest; keep something _ starters; small tal Linking in Taking the bottled up; have the guts to; give ite dating customs; Phrasal Verbs Initiative shot; wouldn't be eaught dead idioms with eat; Poge 1 skip it/ship over/skip something phrase origins Page 150 bite the bullet; put something off; hit it off; That'll be the day.; take the initiative; Now you're talking!; be bound to; pass up Speech LESSON 2— Behavior all ofa sudden: be out of control: Children’s behavior Sentence Stress Kids’ Behavior in Public bbe under control; (nothing) at all; in public; cell phones Publie~The (not) have a clue; go through the in publie; movie Page 153 Bottom Line trouble of; in peace; for once; take theater behavior: Page 19 forever: keep under control; put up types of punishment with; have nothing against; the for children; idioms bottom line; here comes with once Speech Panel Diseussion Guest Speaker REVIEW. Collocation Match-Up and Crossword Puzzle Lessons 1 and 2 LESSON 3— School Life be bored to death/bored stiff/bored Boredom; lean Intonation, In Class— to tears; stick it out/stick out; spark styles; multiple in Statements Bored to Death interest; What a drag!; once ina __ intelligences; or on the Edge blue moon; an awful lot, someone's contexts used with on Page 156 of Your Seat? mind is wandering/wander around; _ the edge of one's seat: Page 39 be on the edge of one's seat; it phrase origins dawned on; What it comes/boils down to is... ; fool around; bomb/flunk a test; buckle down/buckle up; take someone ‘Speech ‘up on something Guest Speaker LESSON 4— Homelessness _ in this neck of the woods; live on; Homelessness: Intonation ‘On the Streets— live from hand to mouth/from _workaholies; the glass in Questions Living from ‘paycheck to paycheck; be dead ceiling; idioms Hand to Mouth wrong/be dead against/be dead _—related to parts of Page 160 Page 57 tired; would turn/roll over ina __the body; proverbs; ‘grave; keep up with/keep it up; let phrase origins ‘up; let someone down; move up the ladder; be/get burned out; be at Speech stake; day in and day out; close Panel Discussion down; That's wishful thinking. Guest Speaker iv | ContentsCONTENTS peers eed REVIEW— Lessons 3 and 4 LESSON 5— Winning the Lottery—He's Got It Made Page 75 LESSON 6— Stuck in an Elevator— Gooped Up and Fitting Tight REVIEW— Lessons 5 and 6 LESSON 7— Violence in the Media—A Bone of Contention Page 113, LESSON 8— Changing Time Zones—A Bad Gase of Jet Lag Page 129 REVIEW— Lessons 7 and 8 pureed Main Expressions Collocation Match-Up and Crossword Puzzle Luck Phobias What's gotten into . . . 2; not have the slightest idea/have no idea/not hhave a clue; beats me/Your guess is as good as mine.; that's unheard of; beyond the shadow of a doubt; to say the least; be beyond comprehension, sink inj Ive goto hhand it to you.; let alone/leave alone; be in store; be up in the air; down the ‘on the lookout; hhave got it made out of the blue/out of nowhere; out of the corner of one's eye; the last straw; be better/worse off: be sooped upr beat the end of one's rope: For erying out loud!; spilt rll love one's head; knock oneself out/be knocked out; make do; climb the walls; have (get) cabin fever; keep a level head: sit tight dwell on; come through Collocation Match-Up and Crossword Puzzle Media Issues Traveling nothing to write home about; leave alot to be desired; have no bearing on; lose one’s bearings: get away with; from someone's standpoint: not hold waters as far as; blow something out of proportion; a bone of contention: get through to: get one's money's worth; drive someone up the wall/drive someone cary Cs) have/avoid/prevent/get over jet lag: eat leepicie's eyes oper be wiped out; stretch out; get a second ae enna naib seratch the surface; in depth; ho} b/iny Tet home, be lavget out of a rut; music to one’s ears; be all ‘ears; to top that off; broach/bring up the subject; sleep on it Collocation Match-Up and Crossword Puzzle cee! Soran catch Superstitions; urban legends; lottei idiom translations, Speech Miss Manners®; Dear Abby®; etiquette: personal space/ roxemies; idioms with oul of euphemisms; quotations: Speech Media violence: parental control; movie ratings; idioms and proverbs with home and auler; quotations; urban legends Speech Panel Discussion Guest Speaker stereotypes; idioms and proverbs with rmusie and ears yeech Rie Play port ttn ‘Thought Groups and Linking Page 162 Contractions and Reduced Forms Page 166 Voiced and Voiceless Consonants and the -ed Ending Page 168 Voiced and Voiceless Gonsonants and the -s Ending Page 178 Contents |v