Idiom, Meaning, and Examples in English
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Storyboard Description
Have students practice idioms in English by illustrating what they mean and providing examples!
Storyboard Text
- A penny for your thoughts!
- IDIOM
- MEANING
- Tell me your thoughts.
- EXAMPLE
- Is everything ok? Penny for your thoughts?
- Don't cry over spilled milk!
- There's no use in worrying over past events which cannot be changed.
- There's nothing we can do about it. What's done is done. Don't cry over spilled milk.
- Like two peas in a pod!
- They're always together.
- Jesse and Dana are like two peas in a pod!
- That ship has sailed.
- It's too late.
- I really wanted to see that movie!
- We see eye to eye.
- We agree or are alike.
- We both like the same food and the same hats!
- I thinkthat ship has sailed! The food is taking so long and the movie has already started!
- Yeah! We reallysee eye to eye.
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