American Idioms (Not Idol!!)

A Homemade PowerPoint GameBy

Ulampee KareeratanaThe University of Georgia

The competition!

Game Directions

Story

Credits

Copyright Notice

Game Preparation

Objectives

Game Pieces

The Story of the “American Idioms (Not Idol!!)”

“Hi! I’m Eye-an Secret. Welcome to the “American Idioms”, this competition is not a singing contest but it will bring you to find a new American Idioms Expert. The competitors will be eliminated one by one from the stage when they lost their voters to 0. And the last person on the stage will be a WINNER.

Now it’s time to find out who is the winner. Good luck with your competition. “

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Game DirectionsThe goal of the game is to help the players to be able to understand some American IdiomsTo play the game you have to match the idioms and their correct meaning.At the beginning, each competitor or player will own 5 sIf you match the idiom and its meaning right, you can keep your voters. But if you get it wrong, you will lose 1 voter. To win the game, you have to try to keep your voters as much as you can by getting the question right. If you are not sure, you can pass the question to other competitor, if he/she gets it wrong, you get one of his/her voter but if he/she gets it right, you lose one to him/her.The competitors will be eliminated when they have 0 voter. And the last person or the person who own the most voters will be the winner

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Game Preparation• Print the next slide (slide5 and 6), cut

out all voters and pass 5 voters to each competitors

• To start the game go to the competition page (slide 10), or you may print it out in order to memorize the idiom that already used

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Game Pieces – The Voters

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Game Pieces – The Voters

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CreditsAll teachers and students at non-profit schools can use, revise, or adapt this game

at will at no cost on the condition that all prior designers are cited.

• Originally designed by Ulampee Kareeratana, The University of Georgia, April 24, 2005 with the title “American Idioms (Not Idol!!)”.

• This Project is a part of EDIT6150 class Spring 2005 by Dr.Lloyd Rieber and his assistant Dawn Lauscher (Thank you for your instruction and assistance)

• To find out more about Homemade PowerPoint Game

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• All Images were used in this game are from Microsoft Clip Art

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Educational Objectives• Audience

– This game is designed for International Students from any exchange program

• Subject Area Objectives– Students will be able to recognize the meaning of American Idioms and use

them properly– This game is designed in order to help the international students learn more

about American-English Idioms which they might have to use in classroom or daily life

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Copyright

• Copyright 2005 Ulampee Kareeratana• Permission to copy this game at no cost is granted to all

teachers and students of non-profit schools. • Permission is also granted to all teachers and students of non-

profit schools to make revisions to this game for their own purposes, on the condition that this copyright page and the credits page remain part of the game. Teachers and students who adapt the game should add their names and affiliations to the credits page without deleting any names already there.

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Time for the competition “American Idioms”!

Pick your idiom by its beginning word:

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A All

Beat Beside

At

Big

DirtyCookCheck

GiveGiveGhost

Make Over Pick Put

In

Down

Burn

Back

Two

Ins

Face

Bury

Be

Vanish

Know

Get

Catch

Beat

Burn the midnight oil

• Stay up late studying• Ready, prepared• Angry

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Beat one’s brain out

• Angry• Get information from an expert• Work vigorously, very hard

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Dirty look

• Homeless• Angry or displeased look• Not clean

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Get away with

• Disappear• Go unpunished (to receive no punishment)• Travel to somewhere with someone

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Vanish into thin air

• Stay up late studying• Disappear suddenly• Can not breath

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Be all ears

• Listen attentively• Be careful• Get ready

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Make no secret of

• Reveal, tell openly• Listen attentively• Give someone a chance

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Beat around the bush

• In a similar situation• Details• Not to be direct, not to say exactly what you

want

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A man of his word

• Sale person• Someone who doesn’t break his promise• Someone who tell a story

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Check up on

• Make sure• Investigate• Ready, be prepared

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Ins and outs

• Details• Advantage and disadvantage• Inside and outside

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In the same boat

• Be friends• In a similar situation• Neighbor

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Over one’s head

• Can’t be understood, too hard• Be experienced, know how to do something• Very important person

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Put our heads together

• Discuss, share the ideas• Can’t be understood, too hard• Be friends

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Know the ropes

• Deal with difficult situation with courage• Get information by asking an expert• Be experienced, know how to do something

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Back on one’s feet

• To be back to the beginning• To return to good financial situation• To get up

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Pick the brains of

• Get information by asking an expert• Buy something important• Have a good friend

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All set

• Ready, prepared• Make peace• Not late

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Face the music

• Get information by asking an expert• Deal with a difficult situation with courage• Slightly chance, very little chance

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Give someone the cold shoulder

• Be friend• Ignore, treat someone in an unfriendly way• Help someone pay for something

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Ghost of a chance

• Confused• Do something wrong• Slightest chance, very little chance

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Give someone a piece of one’s mind

• Express one’s opinion frankly, and in a severe or angry way

• Tell someone about a story• Tell the lie

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Bury the hatchet

• Make peace• Ruin everything• Be quiet

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Big shot

• Very big chance• Very important person• Very important place

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Down and out

• Broke, no money• Details• Ruins one’s opportunity

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Cook one’s goose

• Disloyal, untrustworthy• Ruin one’s opportunity• Make dinner for someone

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Two-faced

• Disloyal, untrustworthy• A twin• Change his/her mind easily

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At sea

• Very wide• Comfortable• Confused

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Catch one’s eye

• Be attractive• Look after someone• Very angry at someone

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Beside the point

• Out of topic• Be close to someone• Moreover

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Great Job!! That’s right!!

Keep your voter and get ready to the next idiom

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Sorry!! Wrong answer

You just lost one voter!! Try again

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