Teaching Resource
Individual Idiom Posters
A set of posters showing idioms and their meaning.
Idiom posters include:
Hold your horses – To hold on or wait.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket – To make everything dependent on only one thing.
The icing on the cake – Something which makes a good situation even better.
Barking up the wrong tree – Looking in the wrong place.
All ears – Listening intently; fully focused.
All thumbs – To be clumsy or awkward.
Raining cats and dogs – To rain heavily; a great amount.
Not my cup of tea – Not your choice or preference.
A piece of cake – A job, task or other activity that is pleasant.
Two heads are better than one – Two people working together have a better chance of solving a problem than one working alone.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN3-1A
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
- EN3-2A
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
- EN3-6B
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
- EN3-7C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
- EN3-8D
Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELY317
Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to context
- VCELT328
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
- VCELA339
Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects
- VCELT342
Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts
- VCELY358
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
- VCELT316
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
- VCELA352
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1698
Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to contextElaborationsidentifying the narrative voice (the ...
- ACELA1518
Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effectsElaborationsexploring a range of everyday, community, literary and informative texts...
- ACELY1714
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audienceElaborationscreating informative texts for two ...
- ACELT1611
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odesElaborationsdiscussing how figurative language including simile and metaphor can ...
- ACELT1798
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authorsElaborationsdrawing upon fiction elements in a range of model texts - for example main idea, characterisation, setting (time and place), narrative ...
- ACELT1615
Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different textsElaborationsnoting how degrees of possibility are opened up through the use of modal verbs (for examp...
- ACELA1525
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinionElaborationsidentifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the variou...
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