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Individual Idiom Posters

Teach Starter Publishing
PDF | 11 pages | Years: 3 - 7

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.

 

Curriculum

  • ACELT1611

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  • ACELY1698

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

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