C1Unit 56
Idioms for life
Choices, relationships and reversals
3 lessons36 min60 words
Lessons
What you’ll learn
- Discuss risk, effort and choices with measured use of idioms.
- Recognise agreement, challenges and unequal treatment in colloquial expressions.
- Describe unexpected turns and recognise irony in judgements.
New words
by cutting corners
take a shortcut
reinvent the wheel
fight a losing battle
hit a brick wall
pull the strings
dig my heels in
play it safe