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The competition!
Hi! Im Eye-an Secret. Welcome to the American Idioms, this competition is not a singing contest but it will bring you to find a new American Idioms Expert. The competitors will be eliminated one by one from the stage when they lose their voters to 0. And the last person on the stage will be a WINNER. Now its time to find out who is the winner. Good luck with your competition.
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Game Directions
The goal of the game is to help the players to be able to understand some American Idioms To play the game you have to match the idioms and their correct meaning. At the beginning, each competitor or player will own 5 voters If you match the idiom and its meaning right, you can keep your voters. But if you get it wrong, you will lose 1 voter. To win the game, you have to try to keep your voters as much as you can by getting the question right. If you are not sure, you can pass the question to other competitor, if he/she gets it wrong, you get one of his/her voters but if he/she gets it right, you lose one to him/her. The competitors will be eliminated when they have 0 voter. And the last person or the person who owns the most voters will be the winner
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Game Preparation
Print the next slide (slide5 and 6), cut out all voters and pass 5 voters to each competitors To start the game go to the competition page (slide 10), or you may print it out in order to memorize the idiom that already used
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Credits
All teachers and students at non-profit schools can use, revise, or adapt this game at will at no cost on the condition that all prior designers are cited.
Originally designed by Ulampee Kareeratana, The University of Georgia, April 24, 2005 with the title American Idioms (Not Idol!!). This Project is a part of EDIT6150 class Spring 2005 by Dr.Lloyd Rieber and his assistant Dawn Lauscher (Thank you for your instruction and assistance) To find out more about Homemade PowerPoint Game go to
All Images were used in this game are from Microsoft Clip Art
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Educational Objectives
Audience
This game is designed for International Students from any exchange program
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Copyright
Copyright 2005 Ulampee Kareeratana Permission to copy this game at no cost is granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools. Permission is also granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools to make revisions to this game for their own purposes, on the condition that this copyright page and the credits page remain part of the game. Teachers and students who adapt the game should add their names and affiliations to the credits page without deleting any names already there.
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Beat
All
Beside
At
Big
Back
Burn
Be
Bury
Beat
Catch
Check
Ghost
Cook
Give
Dirty
Give
Down
In
Face
Ins
Get
Know
Make
Over
Pick
Put
Two
Vanish
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Dirty look
Homeless Angry or displeased look Not clean
Be all ears
Listen attentively Be careful Get ready
Make no secret of
Reveal, tell openly Listen attentively Give someone a chance
Check up on
Make sure Investigate Ready, be prepared
All set
Ready, prepared Make peace Not late
Ghost of a chance
Confused Do something wrong Slightest chance, very little chance
Big shot
Very big chance Very important person Very important place
Two-faced
Disloyal, untrustworthy A twin Change his/her mind easily
At sea
Very wide Comfortable Confused