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2.1. Warm-up.

 

2.1.1. Fill in the following grid with the missing words.

Country

Nationality

Portuguese

Greece

Egypt

French

Russia

Japan

Swiss

Vietnamese

Spain

Danish

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2.1.2 . Idioms
Consult the following website and use its idioms when completing the sentences below.
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/cat/6.html

  1. Jim doesn’t want us to know about his private life. After all he is English and
  2. It takes us a long time to finish that work. I’m afraid it will be
  3. I want to leave the meeting without being unnoticed. I think I have to take a
  4. I didn’t understand a word from what he told us about political theory. It’s all    
  5. My aunt gave me a nice necklace for my 20th birthday. But, I don’t know why she wants it back. I’m afraid she is a(n)    
  6. Pete came to see us and gave us advice on how to solve our marriage problems. He  played the role of a(n)

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