Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán
División de Humanidades
Licenciatura en la Enseñanza del Inglés
Topic: Vocabulary Relationships (Idioms)
1. To get on like a house on fire: To meet somebody at first, and become friends quickly.
2. To get on one´s nerves: To Irritate or exasperate somebody.
3. To put a great strain on: To burden or overload something or somebody.
4. To put somebody down: To hurt somebody´s feelings.
5. To have it in for someone: To intend to harm somebody, especially because of a grudge.
6. A rocky relationship: A relationship which often goes up (in terms of mood, trust, affection, communication) but also often goes down.
7. To turn sour: To become unbearable or unpleasant, stop working properly.
8. To turn one´s back on somebody else: To stop being involved with somebody.
9. To take to: To become fond or attached to.
10. An instant dislike to somebody: A strong feeling of dislike against somebody who somebody else has just met.
11. To look up to somebody: To admire.
12. To look down on somebody: To show contempt for somebody.
13. To keep oneself to oneself: To remain remote or distant from someone or something.
14. To keep in touch with: To maintain communication with somebody.
1. Mary seems to get on like a house on fire very quickly whenever she meets new people.
2. I´ve never meant to get on my teacher´s nerves by asking questions very often, but unfortunately I did.
3. Robert, my girlfriend´s ex-boyfriend, is calling her up every day. That has put a great strain on our relationship.
4. Hadn´t you made fun at Rachel, you wouldn´t have put her down.
5. Since Patrick dared to question the teacher´s methodology, she seems to have it in for him.
6. There is many people trying to avoid rocky relationships, but it seems that there is more trying to not to do so.
7. Peter and Stella´s relationship soon turned sour after she discovered he had already had another family before.
8. Turning your back on a friend in trouble is the worst of the betraying acts.
9. “Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other” (Jack Kerouac)
10. Despite Martha did her best to get close to Ben, he took an instant dislike to her.
11. Ph. D John F. Nash has always devoted his life to research, his work is well-known all over the world, and many scientist look up to him.
12. I can´t stand Johnny anymore, he is always looking down on us. He says there´s no more skilled players than he.
13. I like to keep myself to myself during holidays because I do think they are for rest not for socializing.
14. Without keeping in touch with his ex-classmates, Julia managed to gather them all in a nice party last week.
Complete the sentences using the vocabulary in the previous section. Write between 2-5 words.
Note: Write using ONLY SMALL-CASE.
1. Hadn´t Jill and Kelly met at high school, they wouldn´t have gotten on , they are very close friends.
2. Asking silly questions all the time, Martin really teacher´s nerves.
3. Working extra hours every day has put my relationship, we hardly see each other.
4. To tell that somebody is not smart enough to learn another language .
5. At first, it seemed that my coach , then I realized he just wanted me to do my best.
6. Some people think that if you relationship, it becomes boring.
7. After ten years of doing the same routine every day, Mike and Julia´s relationship .
8. Although The General Manager has showed intentions to fire a great deal of his workers, they, however, have never .
9. I wish Sam. Now I realized there are many things I don´t like of her.
10. Daniel has always behaved in a becoming manner, but his girlfriend´s father to him when she introduced him to her father.
11. Being a single mother of a handicap child is a very difficult issue to manage. It should make people mothers.
12. The engineer the masons if he hadn´t experienced the hard work that they do.
13. isn´t the best way to find a couple.
14. Had my relatives, I would know the place where they are living now.
Adonai Jaimes & Erika Muñoz
