This Slideshare was created by Chatterplot, with the goal of helping teachers teach and ESL students learn funny and commonly used English expressions.

1. English Expressions
The Ultimate Guide

2. How it works:
Each image represents an expression/idiom
in English.
1. Guess what the expression means.
2. Teacher reveals expression
3. Create a story using this expression.

3. Practice tenses!
Optional Use: Practicing
Tenses
A picture is worth a thousand words and in
this case, a thousand stories.
Try to tell the story of each image: What
happened before, during and after?
If you could give any advice to any
person or animal each picture, what
would you say?

12. Pause!!

20. Pause!!

30. Pause!!

43. Solutions
2. Jog your memory 3. Don’t put all your eggs
in one basket. 4. Barking up the wrong tree. 5.
Beat around the bush. 6. Open up a can of
worms. 7. The last straw 8. To have a green
thumb 9. That’s how the cookie crumbles. 10.
To get cold feet. 11. Get out of my hair! 13.
Miss the boat 14. It’s not over until the fat
lady sings! 15. Hit the hay 16. It costs an arm
and a leg. 17. To walk on eggshells 18. Walk all
over someone 19. Jump on the band wagon.
21. Use your noodle. 22. Hindsight is 20/20.
23. When hell freezes over. 24. Off the record
25. Kill two birds with one stone. 26. Packed
like sardines. 27. Under the weather 28. Steal
your thunder 29. Bite off more than you can
chew. 30. Who let the cat out of the bag. 32.
Break the ice 33. 34. Off your rocker 35. Over
your head 36. Pull your leg 37. Piece of cake
38. To be in a sticky situation 39. Cry over
spilled milk 40. Take a rain check 41. When
shit hits the fan. 42. Play it by ear.

44. About Chattercards
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