Friday 27 November 2009

More Idioms!

Here we have the teacher again teaching us some interesting idioms. This time, he presents three different 3 different idioms related to the topic of vegetables. Enjoy!

"It's a hot potato" = a delicate issue where people don't agree.

"A carrot and stick" = when someone tries to persuade us to do something using an incentive and a threat.

"To be like two peas in a pod" = when two people look very similar to each other.

You can follow the video with the script by clicking on the link below:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/the_teacher/teacher_071011_vegetables_transcript.pdf