на всякий случай информирую тех, кому интересны новые типы уроков с позиции "а что, и вправду кому-то надо?", что получила заявки на вот такие мини-курсы,

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Animal Similes - What are the missing words? 1. as vain as a p? 2. as busy as a b? 3. as sly as a f? 4. as red as a l? 5. as popular as a s? 6. as quiet as an a? 7. as strong as an o? 8. as fluffy as k? 9. as healthy as a h? 10. as happy as a p? in mud/slop/poop/shit* * Well, that is not the the most polite thing to say :)

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Random Idioms about Unpleasant Things

* what will happen when the ? hits the fan? = (what will happen when the situation gets really bad?) NB! although that's a RUDE thing to say, it might be necessary to understand what the idiom means :) 
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British Idioms

1. If you are a ? hand at something, you are very good at doing it.
2. If someone is as ? as a brush, they are very silly or stupid.
3. If two people are at ? drawn, they are having a serious disagreement. 
4. If a woman cuts a daring ? with her outfit, she impresses other people with her stylish experience.
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Ещё один мегапопулярный запрос - уроки, на которых помогают активизировать idiomatic language (устойчивые сочетания слов - collocations, фразовые глаголы и слова с зависимыми предлогами - phrasal verbs and prepositional expressions, и чисто idioms - идиомы.

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Купила, последний кажется, номер National Geographic - повелась на то, что там про ( Read more... )

source The Art of Teaching Speaking by Folse, p. 38 (Liu, 2003 - провели анализ трёх корпусов со скриптами диалогов и монологов (это проф. термин - a corpus - это что-то вроде базы данных, состоящей из множества текстов. В трёх проанализированных было в общей сложности 6 миллионов слов))

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