Don’t count your chickens before they hatch Bury your head in the sand Bury the hatchet
Give someone the cold shoulder Green-eyed monster
Give someone a leg up Take the wind out of someone’s sails Toe the line
Ruffle a person’s feathers Below the belt
Avoid facts and reality by pretending they do not exist To be jealous
Behave/do what you are told Unfair
Don’t be too confident or make plans based on an outcome that may not happen
Frustrate someone
Ignore a person or treat them with noticeable disrespect
To help someone Make up after an argument
To have annoyed someone, either on purpose or by accident
CREATE
Working with a partner, look back at the English idioms you wrote down earlier. Choose five of them and try to find out their origins. You can then present some of these to the class.
If you speak any other languages, you might like to tell your classmates an idiom from that language and explain what it means. Try to find out its origin.
A Literary Extract to appreciate and critique literary fiction; to introduce a
surprising detail into a conversation/story What I will learn:
PREPARE
Writers are often given awards for their writing. One of the most prestigious awards given to people who write fiction is the Man Booker Prize, given once a year to the writer of a new English-language novel. Since the inaugural (meaning ‘first’; say: in-aw-gral) award in 1969, many Irish authors have been nominated for and won the Booker Prize, such as Anne Enright (pictured), who won in 2007. You can browse all nominations and winners of the Man Booker Prize on www.themanbookerprize.com.
