A worksheet designed to look at old words and expression that are ticky to look up in the dictionary because their meanings or uses are obsolete although the expressions still remain. There is a quiz on the origins of the expressions at the end that can be done in teams. The answers are on the back page and below is a video that can be used to introduce the subject. Not my video, by the way, but pretty good all the same: 

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyA3TMQ-MTk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyA3TMQ-MTk</a>

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A worksheet designed to look at old words and expression that are ticky to look up in the dictionary because their meanings or uses are obsolete although the expressions still remain. There is a quiz on the origins of the expressions at the end that can be done in teams. The answers are on the back page and below is a video that can be used to introduce the subject. Not my video, by the way, but pretty good all the same: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyA3TMQ-MTk

Fossil Words and Expressions

fossil-words-and-expressions

A worksheet designed to look at old words and expression that are ticky to look up in the dictionary because their meanings or uses are obsolete although the ex…