V. Compose dialogues using the idioms studied. Suggested topics:

1. Your friend tells you that somebody let her down. She is at her wits end as to how to take it all and how to act in the future.

2. You ran out of petrol somewhere in the middle of a desert forest-path. It’s getting dark and you have to find a way out.

3. Your best friend comes over to your place to tell you she’s in trouble. You ask her what’s the matter and give her some advice.

4. You’ve just quarrelled mortally with your boy friend. You are going to walk out on him. And he is trying to persuade you to think twice before doing it.

5. Yesterday you acted as a teacher for the first time in your life (as your teacher had fallen ill and asked you to help her). And now you are sharing your impressions with your girl friend.

6. You and your friend have just seen a film and on your way home you discuss its merits and flaws.

7. You’ve got a bad mark again. You are too cocksure to go to your teacher and to ask him to listen to you once more. Your mother tries to convince you that you are not quite right.

VI. Make the following story more idiomatic using the idioms studied

Hubert did not look up. The water slid and slid away before his eyes; Minnie’s fingers played in his hair, ran caressingly over the nape of his neck. As for his feelings there was a sudden hatred for this woman. Idiot! Why couldn’t she take a hint? He did not love her. And why on earth had he ever imagined that he did? All the way in the train he had been asking that question. Why? Why? And the question had asked itself still more urgently just now as, standing at the garden door, he had looked out between the apple tree and watched her, unobserved, through a long minute – watched her sitting there on the parapet, turning her vague brown eyes now at the water, now towards the garden, and smiling to herself with an expression that had seemed to him so dim and vacuous that he could almost have fancied her an imbecile. (A. Huxley)

VII. Complete the following sentences using the idioms studied

1. When she bursts out crying-----.

2. The students understood it was no use to try to tease their new teacher as she---.

3. I can’t stand her. She is constantly-----.

4. I can fully rely on him. He’ll-----.

5. -----, I don’t know anything about him.

6. Don’t worry, I’ll be with you----- by nine p.m.

7. I’m so exhausted and tired. This won’t do. On Monday I’ll-----.

8. We’re not going to bargain. The price is final. So-----.

9. I’m sorry, I don’t remember his name. I just-----.

10. I don’t know what to do with this spare time, I’m-----.

VIII. Compose situations based on your home-reading using as many idioms as possible lesson 9

to pull one’s leg -to deceive a person

1. However, this method of criticism was so unconventional that readers believed the critic was pulling their legs, and his boss had to let him go. (E. Caldwell)

2. He remembered Milly asking whether Dr.Hasselbacher ever pulled his leg. (Gr. Greene)

3. "You never pull my leg, do you, Milly?" "No, why?" (Gr. Greene)

to make sense - to have sense

to make sense of something - to understand the meaning of something.

1. It didn’t make sense. People couldn’t get ill like this. (D. Cusack)

2. It’s rather hard, isn’t it, Sid, to make sense of it? (W.S. Maugham)