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IDIOM Lesson #2: READING, LISTENING and WRITING
IDIOM: 'It Cost an Arm and a Leg'
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Below: Sentence Match (Page 2)
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PAGE 1 -  READING & LISTENING PRACTICE
Topic: Shopping

Vocabulary:
cost and arm and a leg, extremely,
perhaps, purchase, several,
unfortunately, used to
 
Conjunctions:
because, however


Verb Tense:
Past Simple


PAGE 2 - READING & LISTENING EXTENSION
Match the sentence halves.  Listen to check your work.
PAGE 3 - WRITING PRACTICE
Now it's your turn!  Write a short paragraph about something you bought that cost a lot of money.
PAGE 4 - ANSWERS
Page 1 - Complete the paragraph
(1)
purchase, (2) extremely, (3) perhaps, (4) Because, (5) several, (6) salesman, (7) choose,
(8)
bought, (9) said, (10) Unfortunately, (11) leg, (12) time


Page 2
- Sentence match
6  /  9  /  8  /  4  /  10  /  7  /  1  /  12  /  13  /  5  /  2  /  3   

More practice
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