Guess that idiom
Fractions and Decimals!
Explain the Idiom
Colonization Vocabulary
100
What idiom means to get to know someone?
Break the ice
100
What math term means the same amount?
Equal or equivalent
100
Explain what this idiom means: A penny for your thoughts
Asking someone what they are thinking
100
What is a colony?
A place that is ruled by another country.
200
What idiom do you say to someone to wish them good luck before a performance?
Break a leg!
200
What would you call these? 5/10 and 1/2
Equivalent fractions
200
Explain this idiom: Beat around the bush
Not speaking directly about something or avoiding a topic.
200
What is a settlement?
A place where people move to live and are not ruled by another country.
300
What idiom do you say to someone when they are getting a lot of answers right over and over again?
On fire or On the ball!
300
What is this in a fraction form?: .02 You must pronounce it correct to get the points!
2/100
300
Explain this idiom: Knock your socks off!
Something that impresses or amazes people.
300
What country ruled the colonies?
England
400
What idiom means you can't spit out what you want to say because you are probably nervous about something?
Cat got your tongue?
400
What is this in fraction form?: 2.65 You must pronounce the fraction right in order to get the points!
2 and 65/100
400
Explain this idiom: Take the bull by the horns
To do something you are afraid to do or to confront a problem.
400
What was the Triangular Trade route?
The route that went from England to Africa to the Carribean then to the colonies and then back to England.
500
What idiom means you are making to sure of plans for something that might not happen in the future.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch!
500
What is this in decimal form?: 365/1000 You must pronounce the decimal right in order to get the points.
.365 three hundred sixty-five thousandths
500
Explain this idiom: Cold turkey
To quit something by never doing it ever again.
500
Put these words together in a few sentences to describe how they are connected. (Hint: this is just like what I had you guys do for the video): Africa, England, Colonies, Caribbean, Middle Passage, Triangular Trade, captives, cash crops, labor, plantations.
Example of an answer: The Triangular Trade route went from England to Africa to the Caribbean to the colonies. The Middle Passage was the part of the route from Africa to the Carribean. They took the Africans as captives to use them for labor to work on the plantations to grow their cash crops.
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