Word Jumble with Muscle Groups

Word Jumble with Names of Muscles!  How many muscle groups in your body can you name? Let us reassemble the following letters to make the names of our muscles. The first letter of each word is Capitalized.

     1.   eloDisidt: ________________

     

     2.   mAnliodsba: _______________

     3.   Oesquilub: _______________

     4.   trsgiamHsn: _______________

     5.   Romdihbso: ____________________

     6.   dcruoAtd: ________________

     

     7.   pscireT: _______________

    

     8.   udairpecQs: _______________

     

     9.   Tsarezpiu: _________________

10. pseiBpc: __________________

Answer Keys

   1.  Deltoids

   2.  Abdominals

   3.  Obliques

   4.  Hamstrings

   5.  Rhomboids

   6.  Adductor

   7.  Triceps

   8.  Quadriceps

   9.  Trapezius

   10.  Biceps

Spooky Expressions on Halloween Day

Are you expecting grim grinning ghosts to come out to socialize tonight? With the Halloween mood fully ripe, let us go over some interesting idiomatic expressions containing spooky words. 😉

   

   1.  witch hunt: a situation where accusations are made freely, especially against someone or something that is not popular with the majority

   2.  ghost town: a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource

   3.  skeleton staff: the minimum staff needed by a company during a time where most staff do not normally work, such as a holiday, weekend, etc

   4.  skeleton(s) in one’s closet / skeleton(s) in the cupboard: shameful or embarrassing secret

   5.  to jinx something: to bring bad luck

   6.  the witching hour: midnight

   7.  boogeyman: an imaginary evil character of supernatural powers, especially a mythical hobgoblin supposed to carry off naughty children.

   8.  to send shiver down one’s spine: to make someone feel very frightened or excited

   9.  like a rat leaving the sinking ship: used to describe people who leave a company, organization etc when it is in trouble

   10.              to quake in one’s boots: to be very nervous, frightened, and scared

Why don’t we use the above idioms in sentences?

   

   

   1.   When Paul’s wife said “Honey, we need to talk.”, he was _________________ in his boots and thought his old mistake came back to haunt him.

   2.   Joe was a great kid who always listened to his mom and dad, so there was no need for his parents to make up a story of a _____________________ to discipline Joe.

   3.   During the upcoming holiday, there will only be ______________________ staff on duty here.

   4.   Throughout 1950s in the States, Senator Joseph McCarthy led a _________________ hunt against people suspected of being communists.

   5.   A: Hey, are you out of your mind? So, you’re seriously fly solo in thunderstorm and lightning? I doubt you’ll make it to the island in one piece.

B: Oh, c’mon! Don’t _______________ it! I’ll be fine!

   6.   Guess I’ve gotta go to bed now. It’s past the ______________ hour.

   7.   The horror flick was way beyond what I had expected! It had sent _______________ down my _____________ from beginning to the end.

   8.   Since most of the big or small stores and shopping malls went out of business in that city, more and more people have started to move out like a ___________ leaving the _______________________________. The city has become a __________________ town now.

   9.   Jackson doesn’t want his fiancé to find out about his ________________ in the closet. He thought she might be disappointed if she learned about his past mistakes.

Answer Keys

   

   1.  quaking

   2.  boogeyman

   3.  skeleton

   4.  witch

   5.  jinx

   6.  witching

   7.  shiver, spine

   8.  rat, sinking, ghost

   9.  skeletons

Interesting Expressions related to Love and Marriage

This week, let me share some interesting English expressions related to love and marriage.

    

    1.   to get hitched: to get married

    2.   sham marriage: a legal marriage that happens primarily or solely for practical purposes, rather than love

    3.   to get cold feet: suddenly become too frightened to do something you had planned to do, especially something important such as getting married

    4.   cupboard love: insincere or superficial love motivated by selfish interest/  a show of love inspired by some selfish or greedy motive (Theidioms.com)

    5.   smitten with…: in love with…/ infatuated with ….

    6.   to let one’s heart rule his/her head: to act according to what you feel (=based on one’s emotions) rather than what is sensible

    7.   to fix someone up with …: to find a romantic partner for …./ to set someone up with …

    8.   shotgun wedding/ marriage: marriage that takes place because the woman is pregnant

    9.   to whisper sweet nothings: to whisper words of affection

    10.               bridezilla: a woman who is planning her own wedding in such a thorough and enthusiastic way that her behaviour seems extreme and unreasonable to other people

Time to practice what you’ve learned!

    

    1.   Her father wasn’t able to stand the scene where his beloved daughter was giggling and whispering _______________  _______________ with her boy friend at the prom.

    2.   Brad knew it was only ________________ love from the beginning, Because Juliet was well known as a gold digger in town.

    3.   More and more young ones today are not quite interested in getting ________________. They’d rather wish to enjoy their single lives.

    4.   Diana’s mom has always told her daughter not to let her _______________ rule her ________________. She would say “Marry in haste, repent at leisure.”

    5.   I saw the movie Green Card, which is about _________________ marriage with an undocumented immigrant from France.

    6.   Heather has been such _______________ obsessed with every single detail about her upcoming wedding, but right before the big day, she got _____________ feet.

    7.   Ken became  _________________ with Barbie from the very first moment he saw her. He was utterly head over heels for her.

    8.   It was not a ____________________ wedding. Jack and Jill has made up their mind to get married last year.

    9.   Drew’s auntie felt bad for her nephew who had never dated anyone in his life. So she was trying to ____________ him up with a smart and good-looking girl way before Christmas came along.

Answer Keys

    

    1.  sweet nothing

    2.  cupboard

    3.  hitched

    4.  heart, head

    5.  sham

    6.  Bridezilla, cold

    7.  smitten

    8.  shotgun

    9.  fix

Word Puzzle from NPR

Let’s have fun with NPR Sunday Word Puzzle from this last week! (This show was on the air on September 29^th, 2019)

Question:  

Every answer today is a word, name, or familiar phrase in which the only consonants are D and N — repeated as often as necessary. All the other letters are vowels.

Example: Had a fancy meal --> DINED

1. Poet John who wrote "No man is an island"

2. The Hoosier State

3. Cul-de-sac (2 words)

4. Signaled at an auction

5. Any of the celebrated 1930s quintuplets

6. Movie "Crocodile ___"

7. Epic poem by Virgil

8. Brand of yogurt

9. Supplementary parts of books

10. Oblique remark about someone that casts aspersion on them

11. Verily or without a doubt

12. Relating to the lymph glands

13. Girl in the musical "Oklahoma!" (2 words)

14. "Beats me!" (2 words)

15. Interminably (3 words)

16. Like zombies

Answer Keys

    

    1.  Dun

    2.  Indiana

    3.  Dead End

    4.  Nodded

    5.  Dionne

    6.  Dundee

    7.  Aeneid

    8.  Dannon

    9.  Addenda

   10.              Innuendo

   11.              Indeed

   12.              Adenoid

   13.              Ado Annie 

   14.              No Idea

   15.              On and on 

   16.              undead

Fun Puzzle with Anagrams from NPR

This week, let me share the Sunday puzzle from the On-Air challenge on the National Public Radio. Every answer is a holiday that goes by "____ Day." With the given anagrams of the words that go in the blanks, you name the holidays.

Example: ROAR + B => ARBOR (Arbor Day)

              GAL + F => FLAG (Flag Day)

 

1. HARE + T => _____________  Day

2. BOAR + L => _______________ Day

3. RESHOT + M => _______________ Day

4. STRAFE + H => _______________ Day

5. SERVANT + E => _________________ Day

6. IMMORAL + E => _______________ Day

7. DISPENSER + T => _______________ Day

8. VENETIANS + L => ________________  Day

9. INDENTATIONS + U (2 words) => ______________   _________________  Day

Answer Keys

1. Earth Day

2. Labor Day

3. Mothers Day

4. Fathers Day

5. Veterans Day

6. Memorial Day

7. Presidents Day

8. Valentines Day

9. United Nations Day

Back-to-School Idioms

The back-to-school season is here! I bet all students and teachers are excited about going back to their major stomping ground. Hopefully…..

This week, we are going to cover some school-related expressions in English.  

    1.  to call the roll/ to take the roll: to call the students’ name on a roll to check if they are present in class

    2.  honor roll: a list of students who have earned grades above a specific average during a semester or school year

    3.  to get/ have a leg up (on the competition): to be in a position of advantage over another person or in a situation/ to headstart on ….

    4.  to keep one’s ear (close) to the ground: to be well-informed about what will be happening

    5.  to cover a lot of ground: to go over/ present a lot of information

    6.  an eager beaver: a person who is excessively diligent or overly zealous

    7.  to dilly-dally: to goof off or waste time doing nothing

    8.  to crank out (a paper): to produce something quickly/ to write an essay/ paper in a quick, mechanical way

    9.   to draw a blank: to fail in an attempt; be unsuccessful; to fail to comprehend or be unable to recollect something completely; to get no response when you ask a question

   10.               to make the grade: to attain a specific or satisfactory goal; to succeed

Let’s practice using the above expressions in sentences!

    1.   Lolita has been ________________________ throughout this semester. She had to ____________________ the term paper right before the due date.

    2.   Brian is such an ______________________ who always has a __________________ in school works and exams. No wonder he will make __

__________________ to be in that medical school next year.

    3.   Jared is always tardy and sneaks into the classroom after his teacher finished calling the __________________. Pigs will fly when he is on the ________________ roll.

    4.   You need to keep your ear close to __________________________ in Mrs. Thomson’s class. She talks very fast and covers a lot of __________________ in each class.

    5.    Kathy drew a __________________ when she was asked to solve the easiest question by her Math teacher. She has recently been getting unusually forgetful and confused, which worries her parents.

Answer Keys

    

    1.  dilly-dallying, crank out

    2.  eager-beaver, leg-up, the grade

    3.  roll, honor

    4.  ground, ground

    5.  blank