Allen & Stine – Team HNovember 2013

Word Study Station #4: Idioms, Slang, and Dialect

Get AW #22: Idioms, Slang, and Dialect worksheet from Folder B.

Working independently and quietly, complete the Worksheet.

Please refer to your notes for any answers you are not sure of!

Using the Answer Key in Folder C, check and correct your work.

Review any concepts with which you had difficulty.

Go to the following site and read: “The Most Unruly Class in the

World.” Hover over each highlighted idiom

and examine its meaning. Jot down the idioms and their

meanings. Star (*) the ones you already knew.

Get an Idiom Worksheet from Folder D. Working with a partner - and using these

sources - define each of these idioms.

Idiom Site #1

Idiom Site #2

When complete, move on to the next slide…

Working individually, select an attention-grabbing idiom from your completed Idiom Worksheet.

Get a piece of plain white paper (Folder E), and fold it in half (hamburger style).

At the top, neatly write the idiom. On one side, draw the literal meaning and write its

definition. On the other side, draw the figurative meaning

and its understood, i.e. what you now know it to mean, definition.

Use your very best art skills! Proceed to next slide for two examples. You may

not select either idiom from the examples provided.

Drawing an idiom literally might look like this…

Or…

Proceed to next slide for further

directions…

On the back, in sentence form, neatly identify how this idiom could have arrived at its meaning.

Submit to Mrs. Allen or Mrs. Stine for assessment. Move on to the final slide to complete this word

study station.

Independently – and quietly - complete the Review and Quiz from Folder F.

Submit to Mrs. Allen or Mrs. Stine for assessment.

Read quietly or work on something else Language Arts related.

Burke, Jim. Academic Workout: Reading and Language Arts. Waltham, MA: First

Choice Education Group, 2006. Print.

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<http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dialect>.

"Idiom Keep Your Head  with Meaning and Use in a Sentence and Story." Idiom

Keep Your Head  with Meaning and Use in a Sentence and Story. Web. 19 Nov.

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iowastory.html>.

Mile, A. "English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions - UsingEnglish.com." English

Language (ESL) Learning Online - UsingEnglish.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr.

2012. <http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/>.

Money, not spending. "IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common

sayings." IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common sayings. N.p., n.d.

Web. 16 Apr. 2012. <http://www.idiomsite.com/>.

"What is an Idiom?." Heathermeloche.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2016.

<www.heathermeloche.com/What%20is%20an%20Idiom.htm>. MLA formatting by BibMe.org.