Mystery of English idioms Project work by Kozyakova

Mystery of English idioms Project work by Kozyakova M. , 11 L

Aims Ø To represent my project devoted to English idioms to my classmates Ø To increase knowledge of the English language Ø To get some students interested in learning English idioms. Ø To compare translation of Russian and English idioms

Tasks ü To find out how popular idioms are among young people ü To get to know more about the structure of the English language ü To hold a questionnaire among pupils about how well they know English idioms ü To compare the results of the answers between the pupils of the 11 th and 7 th forms

The relevance of the work Nowadays it is essential for young generation to know more about English idioms for some reasons: • Idioms help to make our speech closer to native speaker’s one • Idioms enable to broaden horizons • Idioms help to increase vocabulary

Idioms words, phrases, or expressions that are not interpreted logically or literally. It means succession of words whose meaning isn’t obvious through knowledge of the individual words but must be learnt as a whole.

I am on Cloud 9!

Cloud 9 Extremely Happy

Ms. Merendino is absent today because she is under the weather.

Under the weather = Feeling sick

Do you like my backpack it costs an arm and a leg.

An arm = A large amount and leg of money

There will be a big test tomorrow, I need to hit the books.

Hit the books = To study hard

Results of the test

The frequency of usage of idioms

Thank you for your attention!