WORKING THE EXPRESSIONS

In college we watched a video of a man telling a story about a chocolate cake. It was a simple story: 

"There was once a mother who made some delicious chocolate cakes, and every day she gave his son a piece for lunch. But one night, the child, hungry, got out of bed and went down for a bit more and eventually eat it whole. The next morning he had no lunch and his mother was angry". 

 

As you can observe it is a simple story, fantastic characters, magic and imagination. The point of this story is expressiveness. So I like to work it in the classroom, because I consider it of great importance.

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 We can use music videos to teach the different gestural expressions and then working them through games.

 

  

               

We may also teach them idioms and common expressions.

1. Más vale tarde que nunca: “Better late than never”
2. Me importa un bledo/un comino: “I don’t care"
3. Meter la pata: “Mess up/screw up”.
4. Se me ha ido el santo al cielo: “It totally slipped my mind/I completely forgot”
5. Enamorados como tortolitos: “Like lovebirds”.
6. Feliz como una perdiz: “As happy as a clam”.
7. Menos da una piedra: “Like squeezing blood from a stone”.
8. Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”.
9. Hacerse el sueco: “To blow somebody off”.
10. Irse a la francesa: “To sneak out without a peep/without so much as a word”.
11. Esto está donde Cristo perdió la zapatilla: “This is in the boonies”.
12. Tener más cuento que Calleja: “To be a drama queen/to be more trouble than your worth”.

The 10 Most Common Expressions in English 

I hope you enjoyed this educational proposals!

Created by: MªJosé Inestal Santolaya.