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'Hold your horses'
If someone tells you to hold your horses, you are doing something too fast and they would like you to slow down.
Literal:
Mantén tus caballos.
Spanish equivalent:
'Calmada venada'

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It's raining cats and dogs.
To rain very heavily.
Literal:
Están lloviendo gatos y perros.
Spanish equivalent:
Está lloviendo a chuvazcos.

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A night owl
A person who is or prefers to be up and about late at night.
Literal:
Un búho de noche.
Spanish equivalent:
'Pareces muerto en vida'

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Send someone packing
To ask someone to leave immediately.
Literal:
Enviar alguien a empacar.
Spanish equivalent:
'Aguacandolala'

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Lie low
To hide so you will not be caught by someone.
All we could think to do was to get into the woods - any woods - as fast possible and just lie low.
Literal:
Mentir poco.
Spanish equivalent:
Mentira piadosa

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At a snail's pace
Very slowly.
Etymology:: from the fact that a snail moves very slowly.
Literal:
A paso de caracol
Spanish equivalent:
Le pesa la milonga.

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Break the ice
1. To make a start.
2. To relax a tense or unduly formal atmosphere or social situation.
Literal:
Romper el hielo.
Spanish equivalent:
'Dar el primer paso'

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Idiom:
1. A penny for your thoughts.
Meaning:
1. This idiom is used as a way of asking someone what they are thinking about.
Literal:
Un centavo por tus pensamientos.
Spanish equivalent:
¿Qué tramas?
Para preguntar lo que una persona está pensando.

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Activity 2. Read the story and answer the following questions.

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For a completed action in a time before now.
-I met a hippopotamus in 2003.
For events that were true for some time in the past.
-I studied at the CRM for two years.
For a list a completed actions in the past.
-Claudia walked and played with her skateboard.
For habits in the past.
-When i was a child, I played with dolls.
To talk about an action in the past that takes place in the middle of another action.
-When they went to the wedding, I was watching movies on Netflix.
For past facts.
-I didn't wear caps before.

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Write sentences in PAST SIMPLE: affirmative, negative, interrogative (yes/no)

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Write sentences in PAST SIMPLE: affirmative, negative, interrogative (yes/no)

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Activity 1 Simple Past - Lecuona Cruz Claudia Araceli

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What were you and others doing? Answer the questions using the past progressive.

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What were you and others doing? Answer the questions using the past progressive.

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Example:

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Use the past progressive in the following contexts.

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Use the past progressive in the following contexts.

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Past progressive                                 Formation

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Past progressive                                 Formation

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While phone breakfast, the Alex was  rang eating.

While Alex eating breakfast, the phone rang.

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playing while football, it they began were to rain.
While they were playing football, it began to rain.

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Complete what Jenny says the following verbs in the Past Continous.

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he sun shining The was got up when.
The sun was shining when he got up.

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when Jack called walking down was the street the police he an accident. saw He.
Jack was walking down the street when he saw an accident. He called the police.

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came into While were watching the room TV, they a burglar their money and stole.
While they were watching TV, a burglar came into the room and stole their money.

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The internet (part 1)
Need wifi?

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Idiom:
2. Add insult to injury.
Meaning:
2. To make a bad situation even worse.
Literal:
Agregar un insulto a la herida.
Spanish equivalent:
Échale más leña al fuego.

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Idiom:
3. Once in a blue moon.
Meaning:
3. When something happens very rarely.
Literal:
Una vez en una luna azul.
Spanish equivalent:
Y ese milagro?

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Idiom:
4. See eye to eye.
Meaning:
Idiom is used to say that two (or more people) agree on something.
Literal:
Ver ojo a ojo.
Spanish equivalent:
Yastas.

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Idiom:
5. Hear it on grapevine.
Meaning:
5. This means ‘to hear a rumor’ about something or someone.
Literal:
Escúchalo en la vid.
Spanish equivalent:
Me lo contó un pajarito.

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Idiom:
6. Miss the boat.
Meaning:
6. This idiom is used tos ay that someone missed his or her chance at something.
Literal:
Perder el bote.
Spanish equivalent:
El que se fue a la villa, perdió su silla.

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Idiom and Meaning

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Definition:
Modal verbs are a special kind of helping verb. A modal verb helps the main verb to express the mood of the subject and at the same time it can indicate possibility, persuasion, ability, willingness, etc.