Welcome to the quotations and saying section of the website where you can see 47 free, printable worksheets related to this particular topic. This is one such worksheet. It focuses on English proverbs which only your advanced students might be familiar with. There are two activities as well as the answer key included in the file. You may want to use this as a review since students are unlikely to be familiar with all of these phrases. Another approach may be to include a reading passage that uses these proverbs so that students can read through the material to complete the first matching exercise and then look at the context of each to better answer the comprehension matching activity. If you have already created a worksheet on quotations and sayings for your students, please upload it to this site to share it with other busy teachers. Students will not likely be familiar with English quotations and sayings unless they are quite advanced and have been doing a lot of reading in English. One phrase did become famous around the world in 2008; it was Yes we can. which was used as the slogan in Barack Obamas presidential campaign in the United States. If you would like to talk about less recent or less well known phrases, you should choose only a handful to introduce at one time and give students meanings and examples of them before asking them to complete any practice activities.
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A quotation or quote is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by (punctuated with) quotation marks. A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression, especially parts of artistic works: elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition. Quotations are used for a variety of reasons: to illuminate the meaning or to support the arguments of the work in which it is being quoted, to provide direct information about the work being quoted (whether in order to discuss it, positively or negatively, to pay homage to the original work or author, to make the user of the quotation seem well-read), and/or to comply with copyright law.
A saying is something that is said, notable in one respect or another, to be "a pithy expression of wisdom or truth." There are a number of specific types of saying, including Aphorism, Cliché, Epigram, Epithet, Proverb, etc.
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The set of proverbs enables fluency and self-expression of high school students.It can be used as a warming-up or brain-storming at the lesson.What is more, each of it is an excellent impromptu ta ...
There is a good collection of proverbs in this Power Point Presentation. They can be used just for fun, or to develop vocabulary, they also can be used to refer to in any essay, or to compare cult ...
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The PowerPoint Presentation which is supposed to get the students to think and give the explanations to some of the most used proverbs in English language.There are some pictures so they can guess ...
Ted Video Activity. 2-minute video titled Weird, or just different? Teach sayings and more. Pre-watching, vocabulary builder and after watch activity. Great for pre-intermediate to intermediate st ...
This demo package includes 2 quote posters beautifully designed to stand out in your classroom and 2 different student worksheets that will help students with the skill of making inferences. This ...
"Change your thoughts and you'll change the world." You can use the poster as a classroom poster if you print on A3. Related worksheet is included for discussion and inference activity. The questi ...
200 English proverbs, sayings, idioms, conversational clichés and phrases and their reflections in Ukrainian and Hungarian. Here we can see the difference between the translations and how t ...
This is a full lesson about Christmas. I prepared it having in mind my adult students. It starts with a speaking warm-up, followed by a text and vocabulary practice part. There is also a set of qu ...
This worksheet is devoted to articles and can be used as a warm up or as a test for your students. It includes several common proverbs which many students were taught in their childhood, though I' ...
This worksheet contains 10 quotes of famous people. The students match the quotes and the people, put the quotes into indirect speech and discuss the content. Thus the worksheet can be used as gra ...
This is perfect if you would like your ss to learn some vocab that has double meanings and understand some clever plays-on-words. First watch the youtube video of 'Milton Jones - Teachers' (3 min ...
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Questions and vocabulary about the video. Listening Comprehension, questions students have to answer related with the video and an exercise on the vocabulary used with its defenitions. Students ...
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