Idioms and expressions em English – Text: It´s no Wonder

É muito comum em qualquer língua o uso de expressões idiomáticas. Lá vai um exercício para o nível básico com o exemplo de seu uso cotidiano.

Como utilizar em sala de aula:

1. Leia rapidamente com a sua turma o texto, sem se preocupar em traduzir nada. Dê uma cópia do texto para eles, com as expressões em negrito. Se for passar na louça, sublinhe as referidas expressões.

2. Explique o significado das expressões e leia novamente o texto. Pergunte o que eles entenderam. Peça para eles repetirem cada uma das expressões.

3. Leia com eles o texto, parando a cada ponto para que eles repitam. 

It´s no under

Saratov, Russia, One day, Olga Petrovic isn´t feeling well. She goes to the doctor in her small town in southern Russia.

“What´s the matter?”  he asks.

“I have a stomachache. And I´m running a fever”, she tells him.

The doctor takes an X-ray. He´s shocked when he looks at it. There´s a 12-inch piece of metal in Olga’s stomach.

“That´s takes the cake! he thinks. No wonder she has a stomachache.”

Olga remembers an operation she had 25 years ago. Apparently, the surgeon made a big mistake and left a medical instrument inside her.

“We need  to get rid of it,” says the doctor. “You need an operation”.

Olga has cold feet and wants to put it off. But her doctor wants  her to have the operation right away. Now the medical instrument is gone and Olga is recovering. 

Tendo terminado esta primeira parte, peça para eles guardarem as folhas. Você imprime as figuras com as expressões e mostre-as para a classe e a classe tem que acertar o significado. No verso da folha você escreve a expressão em inglês para que eles confiram se acertaram. 

Faça agora algumas perguntas para verificar o entendimento do texto. Estimule o uso do inglês nas repostas:

Answer the questions about the story:

a. What´s the matter with Olga when she goes to the doctor?

b. What does the doctor say when he sees the X-ray?

c. What happened to her 25 years ago?

d. Why does Olga need anothjer operation?

e. Why does she wants to put it off?

Answer the questions about you:

f. Have you ever had an operation?

g. How do you feel today? Do you have a stomachache, a headache, or a cold?

h. How often do you thimk doctors make serious mistakes? Tell about a time when YOU made a big mistake.

i. Are you putting off something that you should be doing? If so, what?

j. Is there something you won´t do because you have cold feet?

k. Do you have any bad habits that you´d like to get rid of?

Write about yourself:

Complete the sentences, writing something true about yourself. 

a. When I'm running a fever, I ________________________

b. I often put off _____________________________ because _____________________________________.

c. I need to ____________________________ right away.

d. I want to get rid of some of my possessions, including ________________________________________________.

Write a dialogue:

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Complete the story. Read this true story and fill in the blanks with idioms from the box.

it´s no wonder

made the mistake

get rid of

is running a fever

has a stomache

right away. 

DOCTORS MAKE A BIG MISTAKE

San Francisco, CA, USA. One day, Richar Kearney, 47, has an operation on 

his bladder. When he returns home from the hospital, he (1)___________. 

Several days later, he has a lot of pain and (2)___________________. 

An X-ray shows that there is something in his stomach. Doctors operate 

(3)___________________  because they know they need to 

(4)____________________ it. When the cut Kearney open, they pull a 

2-foot-long towel out his stomach! Apparentlçy, coctors left it inside him 

during the first operation. 

(5) _____________ that Kearney was in pain. He is taking the doctors 

who (6) ______________________ to court. 

Read or tell the story to a partner. 

Answers: 

a. has a stomachache

2. is running a fever

3. right away

4. get rid of

5. It´s no wonder

6. made the mistake

Expero que gostem. 

Anexos: Figuras com para cada expressão: 

NO WONDER: 

WHAT´S THE MATTER? 

HAVE A STOMACHACHE

RUN A FEVER

THAT´S TAKE THE CAKE

MAKE A MISTAKE

GET RID OF

HAVE COLD FEET

PUT SOMETHING OFF

RIGHT AWAY

Extraído do livro "Can you believe it? Book 2 from Oxford University Press