English powerpoint

1. Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
The Aga Khan University
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Year I, Semester I
April 6th
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April, 2015

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3. 1. Kick the bucket = to die
2. Raining cats and dogs= rain heavily
3. A hard cookie = a determined person
4. Barking up the wrong tree= Looking for information
in the wrong place; asking the wrong person
5. Money does not grow on the tree= it is not easy to
earn money
6. The apple of someone’s eye= the person who someone
loves most and is very proud of:
7.Butterflies in the stomach= way of describing those
nervous, fluttery feelings you might get before a test or
an important game (caused by a reduction of blood flow
to the organ)

4. Idiomatic Expressions= figurative language
Idioms are words, phrases or expressions that cannot
be taken literally. In other words, when used in
everyday language, they have a meaning other than
the basic one you would find in the dictionary and are
fixed.
 a particular expression whose meaning cannot be
readily understood by either its grammar or the words
used. Idiomatic expressions cannot be translated word
for word.
NB: Every language has its own idioms. Learning idioms makes
understanding and using a language easier and more fun.

5. Medical and Health Idioms
There are many idioms in English that people use to
describe health and illness. Similarly, there are idioms that
use words related to health and illness, but carry a different
meaning.For Example:
Idiom: a bitter pill to swallow
Meaning: a situation that is very unpleasant but
must be accepted
Sentence: When Ali failed the English exam, it
was a bitter pill to swallow. OR
The naked truth is always a bitter pill to swallow

6. Medical and Health Idioms
as fit as a fiddle: to be healthy and physically fit
Despite being over ninety, my Mom is as fit as a fiddle
black-and-blue - bruised, showing signs of having been physically
harmed
His arm was black-and-blue after falling off his bike
clean bill of health - a report or certificate that a person or animal is healthy
My doctor gave me a clean bill of health after my annual check-up
flare up - to begin again suddenly (an illness or a disease)
My skin problem flared up when I changed soap
go under the knife - to have an operation in surgery, often cosmetic surgery
Jane went under the knife yesterday to get her nose chiseled.

7. Medical and Health Idioms
Idiom Meaning Sentence
As fit as a
fiddle
to be healthy and physically fitto be healthy and physically fit Despite being over ninety, my grandfatherDespite being over ninety, my grandfather
is as fit as a fiddleis as fit as a fiddle
Black
and blue
bruised, showing signs of havingbruised, showing signs of having
been physically harmedbeen physically harmed
His arm was black-and-blue after fallingHis arm was black-and-blue after falling
off his bikeoff his bike
Clean bill
of health
a report or certificate that a persona report or certificate that a person
or animal is healthyor animal is healthy
My doctor gave me a clean bill of healthMy doctor gave me a clean bill of health
after my annual check-upafter my annual check-up
Flare up to begin again suddenly (anto begin again suddenly (an
illness or a disease)illness or a disease)
My skin problem flared up when I changedMy skin problem flared up when I changed
soap.soap.
Go under
the knife
to have an operation in surgery,to have an operation in surgery,
often cosmetic surgeryoften cosmetic surgery
Jane went under the knife yesterday forJane went under the knife yesterday for
her spleen removed.her spleen removed.
Splitting
headache
a severe headachea severe headache I have been suffering from a splittingI have been suffering from a splitting
headache all morningheadache all morning

8. Phrasal Verbs
A phrasal verb consists of a verb and a
preposition or adverb that modifies or changes
the meaning; 'give up‘ (verb+preposition) is a
phrasal verb that means 'stop doing'
something, which is very different from 'give'.

9. Phrasal Verb – Up

11. Phrasal Verbs with ‘Out’

12. Difference between a phrasal verb and idiom
Phrasal verb: a phrase which consists of a verb in combination with
a preposition or adverb or both, the meaning of which is different
from the meaning of its separate parts as highlighted in the following
sentences:
Examples:
1. The child is well looked after by his parents.(Looked
after=taken care of)
2. He has gone down with fever. (gone down with=becomes ill
with disease)
• Idiom: (figurative language)
• group of words in a fixed order forming an expression whose
meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its
constituent elements/words.

13. Phrasal Verbs- Health
Phrasal verbs, or multi-word verbs, are verbs
that are combined with one or two particles (a
preposition or adverb), for example, 'in' or 'out',
to make verbs with new meanings. These new
meanings are usually non-literal. For example, to
throw means to send something through the air
(He threw the pen to me) but to throw up
means to vomit or be sick (She was really ill
after eating that seafood and she threw up).

14. Phrasal verbs - illness
1. come down with something:
become ill with an illness that's not very serious
I think I'm coming down with a cold.
2. bring up something / bring something up:
vomit
The fish wasn't cooked properly. And as soon as she ate it, she brought it up.
3. pack up:
stop working or functioning
He smoked so much for so many years it was no surprise when his lungs
packed up.
4. get over something:
become better after being ill, recover from being sick
When he gets over the flu, he'll go back to work.

16. Idiom Phrasal Verbs- Group Activity
Idioms Meaning
1.drop dead to die suddenly
2.fall ill to become sick or ill.
3.feel fit to feel well and healthy
4.as pale as a ghost extremely pale
5.at death’s door
Phrasal Verbs Meaning
1.To pick it up get an illness from someone
2.Pig out to eat a lot of food
3.bolt it down eat food very quickly
4.Come around regain consciousness
5.Pull through recover