Презентация к исследовательской работе "Английские идиомы"

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  Project :
  ‘English and Russian idioms:
  are they like ‘chalk and cheese’
  or ‘two peas in a pod?’
  is done by Skorokhodina Viktoriya,
  the student of the 11th grade,
  Lyceum №4
  the teacher: Chernyh Natalia Ivanovna.
  

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  This presentation includes the main points of the project in brief. Every part of the research is illustrated with pictures suitable for giving a better idea of every kind of idiomatic expressions. Five main groups of idioms studied during the process of doing the project are presented here. In order not to make it too complicated, this presentation involves only idioms with the illustrations, without examples and definitions.
  

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  Content of the project
  1.Introduction
  1.1. Purposes of the project
  1.2. Actuality
  1.3. The process of working and main phases
  2. Research
  2.1. Idioms, completely similar to Russian ones
  Idioms, including names of parts of the body
  Idioms including names of animals
  Idioms including types of food
  Idioms including common words
  2.2. Idioms, which are slightly different from Russian expressions
  Idioms used for describing people
  Idioms, including names of parts of the body
  Idioms connected with emotions or feelings
  Other idioms
  2.3. Idioms having more significant differences
  2.4. Exceptional idioms
  2.5. Purely English idioms widely spread
  3. Conclusions
  

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  2. The actuality
  1. The main purposes of the project
  In the modern world much attention is devoted to the interaction of languages, to their integration and to the mutual penetration of words and whole phrases. The comparison of figures of speech, in this case, idioms, lets us give a definite answer to the one of sharp questions - do different languages, belonging even to various families of languages, have similarities and include the same constructions?
  
  the results of the research in idiomatic expressions are not only the value for modern linguistics, but it is also important for other fields of the science and of our lives- culturology, the Social Science, psychology and even the international political science.
  •Finding and explaining important similarities between idioms of English and Russian languages.
  
  •Suggesting ideas about the closeness between British and Russian cultures.
  
  •Studying the adoption of some English idiomatic phrases.
  

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  3. How did I do this project?
  1.Working out the strategy how to find material for comparing;
  
  2.Studying Russian idioms in order to divide them into different groups;
  
  3.Collecting information;
  
  4.Distribution of the idioms into groups formed;
  
  5.Drawing conclusions;
  Main stages:
  

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  1st group:
  
  Idioms completely similar to Russian ones
  
  Idioms including names parts of the body
  Idioms including names of animals
  Idioms including types of food
  Idioms including common words
  2nd group:
  
  Idioms, slightly different from Russian expressions
  
  Idioms used for describing people
  Idioms, including names parts of the body
  Idioms connected with emotions or feelings
  Other idioms
  4th group
  
  Exceptional idioms
  do not have equivalents in the Russian language
  5th group
  
  Purely English idioms become widespread
  Idioms
  3rd group:
  
  Idioms having more significant differences
  
  

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  To bury somebody’s
  head into the sand
  Never look
  a gift horse
  in the mouth
  Two heads are
  better than one
  Crocodile tears
  To kill time
  First group
  

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  As blind as a bat
  To be a bull in a china shop
  A storm in a teacup
  To have a whale of time
  Second group
  

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  =
  =
  To cry over spilt milk
  Плакать у
  разбитого корыта
  When pigs fly
  Когда рак на
  горе свистнет
  Third group
  

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  Forth group
  To be like chalk and cheese
  To go bananas
  To be as cool as a cucumber
  (My favourite)
  

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  Fifth group
  To be or not to be?
  Othello...
  Time is money
  To grin like a
  Cheshire cat
  

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  1.The English and the Russian languages have a lot of points of contact. Some idiomatic expressions are completely the same. The group of such idioms mainly consists of figures of speech which include the names of parts of the body.
  
  2.Although there are a lot of worldwide stereotypes of animals’ characters, the expressions including the names of them are slightly different. Some Russian idioms seem to be more emphatic while the English ones are more neutral.
  
  3. Studying idioms and comparing them, it is wiser to find their equivalents in the other language since it gives a better idea of their definitions. Simply translating them word by word we are in danger of getting very confusing definitions which are not connected with the correct meanings.
  
  4. Studying figures of speech gives the opportunity to become closer to the culture of the country, the mentality of inhabitants, to its history and literature. Besides, it is a chance to learn some facts about the geography of the country.
  Conclusions