Idioms
3-part multi-word verbs
Persuasive techniques in presentations
Christmas special
100
What idiom is this?
a fish out of water
100
Keep up with
to be up-to-date, to keep pace, to follow at the same speed
100
A question asked of the reader that they don’t actually answer
Rhetorical question
100
Continue the song:
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
200
To be extremely happy and excited
To be on cloud nine
200
Visit someone to see are them okay
Check in on
200
Identify the persuasion technique:
"Yes, we have to try! And then, we have to try again!"
Repetition
200
What is Santa Claus called in Finland?
Joulupukki
300
To feel very frightened
Blood runs cold
300
Feel up to
to have the energy to do something
300
Saying that a thing is similar to something else or that it IS that something else
Simile or metaphor
300
Who sings the song “All I Want For Christmas Is You”?
Mariah Carey
400
Fill in the blank:
"We don't have a set plan for the road trip, we'll just ... and see where the day takes us."
play it by ear
400
To delay / to wait until later
Hold off on
400
Identify the persuasion technique:
"These techniques can make you happier, healthier and more productive."
The rule of 3
400
What hotel did Kevin stay at in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?
The Plaza Hotel
500
The first term appeared in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1727): “Something in their countenance ... with a horror I cannot express.”
To make one’s flesh crawl
500
"I wanted to ... his high ideals."
live up to
500
Negative inversion is
a grammatical structure that starts with a negative auxiliary verb and is usually completed in a separate clause
500
Sing your favorite Christmas song