Congratulations for reaching Year 4 of your English Studies. For Year 4 American English vocabulary, we will work on American English idioms as well as short videos explaining a term heard in a movie.
- Directions: Click on the link below to learn 3 American English Idioms
BAD BLOOD, BARK UP THE WRONG TREE, and BATS IN (ONE’S) BELFRY, HAVE: American English Idioms #9
- Directions: Watch the video below to learn a new English vocabulary term
4.9.1: year 4 English vocabulary term
” Far- fetched”
I watched the above movie and found the new vocabulary word or phrase, ‘far-fetched’ as I understand the meaning of this phrase is, ‘difficult to believe and unlikely to be true’ or unconvincing, unlikely
for example…
1) This is a far-fetched idea.
2) the plotting was far-fetched, but the lotters looked real.
3) It is almost too far-fetched to be true.
4.9.1: Year 4
American English vocabulary, idioms#9
1) Bad Blood: Unfriendly or hostile relations, hatred, resentment.
For example, When the territory was being settled, there was bad blood between
the Pakistan and India.
There has been bad blood between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma for many
years.
There has been bad bold between the two families for years.
2) Bark up the wrong tree: To make the wrong choice, to ask the wrong person, to follow the wrong course, misguided, wrong.
For example, please check your assignment carefully so that your views must not
be barking up the wrong tree.
If you think that we do want another war, you are barking up the wrong tree.
3) Bats in the belfry: Being crazy or eccentric.
Bats in the belfry is a phrase that refers to being crazy or eccentric.
For example, my friend has bats in the belfry, she thinks that the mailman is trying
to steal her cat.