Listening activity – Voice Of America
It’s official:
Spring is coming. It’s the time to tend the garden or balcony plants, flowers
start blooming and insects are coming back! Swarms of bees, ants, butterflies
and bugs of all kinds.
English has
many expressions about insects. Here,
you’ll be listening to a special report from VOA about this topic.
PART 1. Listen to the clip and connect the expression to the example or
definition on the right column. You can see the transcript in the Answer
Section later.
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1. As busy
as a bee
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A. Go somewhere right away
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2. A
beehive of activity
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B. When you cannot stop talking about something important
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3. Make a beeline for something
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C. When someone asks you a personal question
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4. Be the
bee's knees
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D. You spent your weekend cleaning your house
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5. Have a bee in your bonnet
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E. Ask someone to leave you alone
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6. None of
your beeswax
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F. Your whole family was helping you clean
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7. Talk about the birds and the bees
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G. The best of its kind
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8. Mad as
a hornet
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H. Discuss where babies come from
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9. Stir up a hornet's nest
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I. When someone tells you again and again to do something
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10. Have
butterflies in your stomach
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J. Warm
and happy
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11.Have
ants in your pants
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K. Really
angry
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12.Stop
bugging me
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L. Wish someone good night
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13.Someone put a bug in your ear
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M. Create trouble or problems
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14.Be snug as a bug in a rug
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N. Be restless and unable to sit still
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15. Don't let the bed bugs bite
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O. Be nervous about having to do something
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PART 2: Use the right choice to complete the following sentences.
- My work mate has ........................................... and he will not stop talking about moving to a new apartment in the city.
a) bed bugs b) a bee in his bonnet c) butterflies in his stomach
- John is beginning to ........................................... with his endless questions.
a) bug me b) stir up a hornet's nest c) be snug as a bug in a rug
- Our boss was ........................................... when she came to work this morning.
a) none of her beeswax b) snug as a bug in a rug c)as mad as a
hornet
- The kids were ........................................... as they watched a movie in their parents’ big bed.
a) butterflies in their stomachs b) snug
as a bug in a rug c) as busy as a bee
- My friend Sally put ........................................... all year about going to France and now I cannot stop thinking about it.
a) a bug in my ear b) a beeline
c) a bee in her bonnet
- My dad told me ........................................... during a summer holidays.
a)
butterflies in my stomach b) about the birds and the bees c) none of
his beeswax
- Teachers say some little boys have ........................................... when they kept moving around.
a) ants in their pants b) butterflies in their stomachs c) the bee's knees
- I had ........................................... when I graduated from college.
a) a bug in my ear b) a bee in my bonnet c) butterflies in my stomach
- Last weekend we went to a concerts and were so hungry that we made ........................................... the food stand.
a) a beehive of activity b) stir up a hornet's nest c) a beeline
- It was ........................................... at the office so Jane did not dare ask any questions.
a) mad as a hornet b) a beehive of activity c) none of your beeswax
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