Tag Archives: idioms

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom high horse, as in “to be on one’s high horse.” This is still, I think, a relatively common expression in American English. In any event, it is one of those idioms that requires prior knowledge and interpretive skills–you know, those things that combine into semantic webs that we no longer teach for, preferring the narrow, blinkered tests that crappy educational publishers produce.

This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one long, kind of complicated compound sentence; you may want to overhaul the text for emergent readers or students for whom English is a second or third language.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “If the shoe fits, wear it.” This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension question. A solid explanation of this once-common idiom (if not still?) in English.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “diamond in the rough.” This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences (and beware the first one, which is a long compound separated by a colon) and three comprehension questions. A short, but thorough, introduction to this commonly used idiom–in English, at least.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom vicious circle.  This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one longish compound containing a colon and a semicolon which might, obviously, be best revised for emergent readers and those working to acquire English as a new language. There is one simple comprehension question and one imperative to use vicious circle in a sentence.

In other words, a basic introduction to this very commonly used idiom in English.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.