Vocabulary & listening activity
A) Study the
following idiomatic expressions related to the rain.
Charge it to the dust and
let the rain settle it.
A phrase people say when they do not expect to pay for something or be
paid.
Come in out of the rain
Fig. to wake up to reality; to come down to earth.
It's raining pitchforks /
it’s raining cats and dogs
It is raining very hard..
Pouring rain
very heavy rain.
Rain (something) down
to pour something, such as criticism or praise, onto someone or
something.
 Rain check
a piece of paper allowing one to see an event, which has been
canceled, at a later time. Fig. a reissuance of an invitation at a later
date.
Rain down on (someone)
to fall or drop down like rain.
Rain on someone's parade
Fig. to spoil something for someone or spoil someone's plans.
Come rain or shine
To do something whatever happens.
Right as rain
To feel well.
When it rains it pours or
It never rains but it pours.
when one bad thing happens, a lot of other bad things also happen,
making the situation worse.
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B) Complete the
following sentences with one, two or more words related to the idioms above:
- I’d love to come for dinner, but I’m busy on Friday. Could I take a.....................?
- First of all it was the cellphone breaking down, then the car and now the washing machine. When ....................!
- Take an umbrella because it's raining ..........................out there! You’ll get soaked.
- The critics .......................compliments on the actors.
- I hate to rain ..........................., but your picnic idea for Sunday is all wrong. There will be a thunderstorm this weekend.
- Pete: Who's going to pay me back for Maggy’s birthday present?
Colleague: Charge it
...........................!
- I'll be as ....................as soon as I take something for my headache.
- Confetti ................................on us at the party. It was hard to get it out of my hair.
- Please, come ..................................! Don't you see that your sister is taking advantage of you!
- I'll be there ........................, I promise.
- My clothes were soaked after playing soccer in the .............................
C) Listen to a
fragment of a radio show “A Way With Words” where the hosts and Isabelle, a
caller, talk about idioms that describe rain.
What do you
call a fierce rainfall? There are lots of vivid terms besides “it’s raining
cats and dogs.”
1.What is the phrase the caller mentions?
“It’s raining ...................................... and hoe handles,”
2.Where did she hear that phrase?
3.These phrases signify something ( heavy/ light) falling from the sky.
4.a toadstrangler, stumpwasher and a ditchworker are terms used to describe a
(heavy rainstorm / light shower)
5.In which countries do they use these picturesque phrases involving
imaginary falling things?
It’s raining...
...chair legs
...female trolls
...husbands
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