2016-02-23 Vocabulary: dating idioms

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: complete p. 113
1 Come on, you’ll go stir crazy!
2 You just have to let it run its course. (if Al is still sick)
  Don’t worry, it’s run its course. (It has run its course = now it’s finished)
3 If I dissect a frog, I’ll be as sick as a dog.
4 Just wait to be in the pink before going out.
5 I don’t feel sick, but I do feel kind of blah.
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p. 118 - Guess whether the definitions are true or false, from the sentences and the pictures.
1 true
2 false
3 true (“get hitched” is also an idiom for marriage)
4 true
5 true
6 false
7 true (dump = break up with)
8 true
9 false
10 true
11 true
12 true
13 true
14 true
15 false

If you go in blind to a situation, it means you don’t have any information or preparation about it before.
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p. 121 - With your partner, try to figure out what the reduced words really are. (We will check this tomorrow.)
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Homework: Write a list of five slang words or idioms you hear or see outside of class (in music, movies, TV, books, or other people’s conversations) and find out what they mean.