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Mastering Common Idioms and Usage

The document contains exercises focused on correcting and rewriting sentences using idiomatic expressions. It includes tasks for identifying mistakes in idioms, replacing phrases with the correct idioms, choosing the appropriate idioms to complete sentences, and engaging in discussion using idioms. Additionally, it prompts the user to create original sentences using specified idioms.

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Mastering Common Idioms and Usage

The document contains exercises focused on correcting and rewriting sentences using idiomatic expressions. It includes tasks for identifying mistakes in idioms, replacing phrases with the correct idioms, choosing the appropriate idioms to complete sentences, and engaging in discussion using idioms. Additionally, it prompts the user to create original sentences using specified idioms.

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1.

Find and Correct the Mistakes


a) I was tickled blue when I heard the good news.
b) He passed his exam with flying ships.
c) I told a black lie to avoid hurting her feelings.
d) She called me out of the red after years of no contact.
e) We go to the cinema once in a green moon.
f) My brother is the white sheep of the family.
g) When people are rude, I see blue.
h) When I saw his new car, I was yellow with envy.

2. Rewrite the sentences, replacing the underlined phrases with the


correct idiom:

a) We go on holiday very rarely. → We go on holiday __________


b) He did an excellent job in his driving test. → He __________ in his driving
test.
c) She was extremely happy when she got engaged. → She was __________
when she got engaged.
d) I became very angry when I saw them break the window. → I __________
when I saw them break the window.
e) When I saw her designer handbag, I felt jealous. → When I saw her designer
handbag, I was __________.
f) I lied to be polite when my friend asked if I liked her cooking. → I told a
__________.
g) He texted me unexpectedly after five years of silence. → He texted me
__________.
h) My uncle is the different one in the family. → My uncle is the __________ of
the family.
3. Choose the correct idiom to complete each sentence:

a) We visit our grandparents ____________. They live very far away.


b) She was ____________ when she found out she had won the competition.
c) He passed his final exams ____________. His scores were excellent!
d) I ____________ when I see people being impolite to waiters.
e) My cousin is the ____________ of the family. Everyone is a lawyer, but she
became a musician.
f) I told a ____________ to my friend when she asked if I liked her new dress.
g) When I saw her brand-new sports car, I was ____________.
h) He called me ____________. We hadn’t spoken in years!

4. Would You Rather? (Discussion Activity)

Answer the questions below using full sentences and the correct idioms.

a) Would you rather pass an important exam with flying colours or receive a gift out
of the blue?
b) Would you rather tell a white lie to protect someone's feelings or always tell the
harsh truth?
c) Would you rather be the black sheep in a family or follow the same career as
everyone else?
d) Would you rather experience something exciting once in a blue moon or have
small surprises every day?
4. Use each idiom in a sentence of your own.

1. Once in a blue moon

2. Tickled pink

3. With flying colours

4. See red

5. Black sheep

6. White lie

7. Green with envy

8. Out of the blue

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