jueves, 23 de mayo de 2013

As easy as a piece of cake

Now it's the moment to study for the exams and you have to use the new vocabulary, the new expressions, idioms, similes andvthe new structures you have learnt during the year.
I know it isn't easy but you have to show how much you have improved and putting the newly acquired into practice is the best way to "impress" your teacher.

Here you have an easy exercise to review the similes and animal idioms we have seen.

Name a person you would associate these similes or animal idioms or related to money with:
- is as deaf as a post (no comments)
- is as good as gold
- as stubborn as a mule
- is as blind as a bat
- is as quick as a flash
- is as white as a sheet
- eats like a horse
- drinks as a fish
- sleeps as a dog
- does all the donkey work
- takes the bull by the horns
- took the lion's share
- makes a real pig of himself
- is now in the doghouse
- is a bit of a dark horse
- whose bark is worse than their bite
- spends money like water
- has more money than sense
- is in the red
- lives beyond their possibilities
- can't make ends meet
- is really tight-fisted

Possibilites if you don't want to think much:

Nicole Kidman, Angela Merkel, Louis Braille, the King od Spain, Puttin, Marta Domínguez, Heather Mills, Mr Scrooch, Carpanta, Teresa of Calcutta, Heliogabalo, etc.

Or something that:
- works like a dream
- costs a fortune
- is good value for money

Or an occasion when you or someone:
- felt like a fish out ot water
- killed two birds with the same stone (no shoots allowed, Carlos)
- walked off with his tail between his legs
- could smell a rat
- felt it was the last straw



 

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