Self-learning - Based on Colour Idioms

LanguageCircle:
Self-learning
basedon
ColourIdioms
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Objectives
• Review and practice the Colour Idioms. Use them to unscramble
some sentences in a related activity.
• Learn new vocabulary
• Read a text and answer true and false questions
• Speak about your own self-learning experiences
• Learn about punctuation: The Oxford Comma
• Reflect on your learning today

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Review the idioms
in this related lesson
https://livelearn.ca/lessons/language-training/colour-idioms/

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Review the idioms
in this related lesson
“a green thumb” – someone who has a natural talent for growing plants
“white elephant” – a possession that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of
“pink slip” – a notice of dismissal from employment
“blue collar” – relating to manual work or workers
“black sheep” – a disfavoured or disreputable member of a group
“in the red” – spending or owing more money than is being earned

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Idioms Activity:
Unscramble the sentence:
worked a green summer. all My son who garden
has thumb on his

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Idioms Activity:
worked
a green
summer.
all
My son who
garden
has thumb
on his

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Idioms Activity:
white in pool one year. became a
only Their elephant

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Idioms Activity:
Answer:
elephant
a
year.
one
Their pool
only
became white
in

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Idioms Activity:
is got Ursula why the slip
pink It unclear yesterday.

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Idioms Activity:
Answer:
got
why
yesterday.
slip
It is
pink
unclear Ursula
the

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Idioms Activity:
for blue She for trained job
six her months. collar

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Idioms Activity:
Answer:
collar
her
months.
six
She trained
for
for blue
job

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Idioms Activity:
Adam been black the of has
the sheep family. always

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Idioms Activity:
Answer:
black
been
family.
the
Adam has
of
always the
sheep

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Idioms Activity:
at restaurants their Eating in red
fancy put family. the

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Idioms Activity:
Answer:
their
restaurants
red.
the
Eating at
in
fancy put
family

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Agenda
1. Vocabulary
2. Reading
3. Speaking
4. Punctuation
5. Reflect on learning

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curriculum (noun) to gauge (vb.)
to enrich (vb.) matriculated (adj.)
medium (noun) sense of purpose (phr.)
1. improve or enhance the quality or value of to enrich (vb.)
2. to be enrolled
3. the subjects comprising a course of study in a school
4. an agency or means of doing something
5. estimate or determine the magnitude, amount, or volume
of
6 the quality of having a definite goal

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2. to be enrolled matriculated (adj.)
3. the subjects comprising a course of study in a school
of

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3. the subjects comprising a course of study in a school curriculum (n.)
of

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4. an agency or means of doing something medium (n.)
of

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of
to gauge (vb.)

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of
to gauge (vb.)
6 the quality of having a definite goal sense of purpose (phr.)

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Read the following text and answer the questions:
Self-learning
Self-learning is anything you learn outside a classroom environment by yourself
without a set curriculum or examinations.
Unlike traditional methods of schooling, your self-learning efforts are not measured by how well you
perform on an exam. Self-learning lets you gauge and improve your knowledge via practical applications
with no matriculated evaluation. This makes it all about pure learning.
Self-learning also helps in developing your skill levels and enriching your experiences through practical
applications. Here are some reasons why you should consider self-learning:
* Self-learning helps you develop your problem solving skills.
* Self-learning is stress free. There are no exams, no deadlines. Only pure satisfaction and curiosity being
answered.
* You gain secondary skills that will help you advance your career.
* Self-learning comes out of your personal desire to learn something new. Thus, you get a feeling of
accomplishment and feel a sense of purpose.
* You get to choose the way you learn. You can find your comfortable medium, videos, texts, experiments,
or webinars, and other diverse mediums can be efficiently used to learn.
Adapted from Source/https://www.lifehack.org/853724/self-learning

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Answer the questions with True or False:
1. Self-learning requires a set curriculum.
2. Self-learning also helps in developing your skill levels and enriching your experiences through
practical applications.
3. Self-learning is not stress free. There are exams and deadlines.
4. You gain secondary skills that will help you advance your career.
5. When you learn something on your own, you get a feeling of accomplishment and feel a sense
of purpose.
6. You get to choose the way you learn.

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1. Self-learning requires a set curriculum. False
practical applications.
of purpose.

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practical applications. True
of purpose.

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3. Self-learning is not stress free. There are exams and deadlines. False
of purpose.

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4. You gain secondary skills that will help you advance your career. True
of purpose.

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of purpose. True

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of purpose. True
6. You get to choose the way you learn. True

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Speak about your own self-learning
experiences
• Did you learn something by yourself in the last two
years? If yes, what and why?

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The Oxford Comma
The Oxford (or serial) comma is the final comma in a list of things.
For example: Please bring me a pencil, eraser, and notebook.
The Oxford comma comes right after “eraser”.
Whether or not you use the Oxford comma is generally up to you. However, omitting it can sometimes
cause some strange misunderstandings.
For example: I love my parents, Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty.
Without the Oxford comma, the sentence above could be interpreted as stating that you love your
parents, and your parents are Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty.
Here’s the same sentence with the Oxford comma: I love my parents, Lady Gaga, and Humpty Dumpty.
Source: Grammarly.com

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Let’s practice: Rewrite these sentences using the Oxford Comma
1. Because she has a green thumb, she decided to take three online courses: the basic
gardening, the advanced flower gardening and the virtual landscaping course.
2. His first year in university made him tired, lonely and in the red.
3. Receiving the pink slip affects everyone: you, your co-workers and your family.
4. As her new house was a white elephant, she took DYI advice from family, friends and YouTube.
5. He is not called the black sheep anymore, since he enrolled to community college, got a part
time job and helped his sister to move.

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Because she has a green thumb, she decided to take three online courses: the basic
gardening, the advanced flower gardening, and the virtual landscaping course.

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His first year in university made him tired, lonely, and in the red.

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Receiving the pink slip affects everyone: you, your co-workers, and your family.

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As her new house was a white elephant, she took DYI advice from family, friends, and YouTube.

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He is not called the black sheep anymore, since he enrolled to community college, got a part time
job, and helped his sister to move.

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What did you learn today?
• Review and practice the Colour Idioms. Use them to
unscramble some sentences in a related activity.
• Learn new vocabulary
• Read a text and answer true and false questions
• Speak about your own self-learning experiences
• Learn about punctuation: The Oxford Comma
• Reflect on your learning today

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Homework
1) Use the Colour Idioms learned in sentences of your own.
2) Make a list with three self-learning activities you plan to do this
year. Write a paragraph about each of them and send them to
your teacher.

Thankyou!
Questions?
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Created by : Ruxandra Nicolescu – English Online

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