English Conversations

Practice and Learn Module

90 minutes

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The following are your objectives:

• Be familiar with everyday conversational phrases that Americans use in their language

• Practice and adopt new colloquial terms and phrases

• Accomplish the group assignment on this module

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Overview

• Went like clockwork• Really chic• It’s a cross• Put to sleep• He got a taste for• Been told off before• Wipe out• Stamp out• I’m in the dark

• Give us a lift home• In low spirits• With open arms• He’ll see red• Pay through the nose• Tailor your resume• Smell a rat• Got his head screwed on• Chewing the fat

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• Take after• Hit the sack• A close shave• A far cry from• Daylight robbery• A stone’s throw away• Hanging out• Popping the question• Get a hang of it

•Take the bull by the horns•A bee in your bonnet•Give up the ghost•Playing hardball•Up to the hilt•At a premium•Capital gains•Went up the wall

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Went like clockwork

Really chic

It’s a cross

Put to sleep

Got a taste for

Has been told off

Wipe out

Stamp out

In the dark

A lift

In low spirits

With open arms

See red

Pay through the nose

Tailor

Smell a rat

Got his/her head screwed on

Chewing the fat

Take after

Hit the sack

A close shave

A far cry

Daylight robbery

Stone’s throw away

Hanging out

Popping the question

Get a hang of it

Bee in your bonnet

Give up the ghost

Playing hardball

Up to the hilt

At a premium

Capital gains

Went up the wall

Group Assignment

Groupings1. Form 4 teams, with

approximately 10-15 members each.

2. Assign a team leader who will have to talk to other team leaders about which TASK NUMBER your team will be working on.

““WWrite a dialogue rite a dialogue using the using the

terms/phrases terms/phrases assigned to your assigned to your

group, which you’ve group, which you’ve learned and studied learned and studied

on this module.on this module.””““Be prepared as you will Be prepared as you will present this in a present this in a role play role play on our next meeting!” on our next meeting!”

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Group Assignment

TASK # 1• Went like clockwork• Really chic• It’s a cross• Put to sleep• He got a taste for• Been told off before• Wipe out• Stamp out• I’m in the dark

TASK # 2• Give us a lift home• In low spirits• With open arms• He’ll see red• Pay through the nose• Tailor your resume• Smell a rat• Got his head screwed on• Chewing the fat

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Group Assignment

TASK # 3• Take after• Hit the sack• A close shave• A far cry from• Daylight robbery• A stone’s throw away• Hanging out• Popping the question

TASK # 4•Get a hang of it•Take the bull by the horns•A bee in your bonnet•Give up the ghost•Playing hardball•Up to the hilt•At a premium•Capital gains•Went up the wall

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Glossary

“A dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog) is a conversation between two or more people. It is also a literary form in which two or more parties engage in a discussion. It is used to make a person feel like they are there listening to the conversation happen in person.”

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Your script/dialogue, written down and submitted, will be your exercise for the day.

10 points correct usage

10 points role play