Teaching Aims:

1. Students are expected to learn idioms in English.

2. Enable students to understand and use.

Teaching Important and difficult Points:

Develop the students’ ability of using idioms.

Teaching Methods:

Explanation and exercise

Teaching Procedures:

Step1 lead-in

I thought the exam would be a piece of cake, but it was much harder than expected.            easy

Sherry really enjoyed chemistry, so writing an essay about it was a child’s play.

Anything that is easy to do.

Noun phrases

This allows you to prepare good answers and means you won’t have to answer questions off the top of your head during the interview.

Answering sth. quickly without having time to think about it

This allows you to prepare good answers and means you won’t have to answer questions off the top of your head during the interview.