Year of the Monkey: Fun With Idioms

Students will learn 6 idioms about monkeys and then make a monkey origami. With their finished monkey they will paste it onto a bigger piece of paper and illustrate one monkey idiom of their choice.

Here are the idioms:

1. I'll be a monkey's uncle! idiom （表示驚訝）天哪！ 哎呀！used to show you are very surprised

2. make a monkey out of somebody idiom使（某人）出醜；耍弄，愚弄（某人） to make someone appear stupid

3. monkey business騙人的把戲；惡作劇 behavior which is not acceptable or is dishonest

The teacher suspected that there had been some monkey business going on in the class. 老師懷疑班裡有人搞惡作劇。

4. monkey about/around (with sth) phrasal verb胡鬧，搗蛋

to behave, or to use or move things, in a silly and careless way

The children were bored and started monkeying around. 孩子都感到厭煩了，開始胡鬧。

5. throw a monkey wrench (into something) 從中搗亂；破壞計劃 to do something that prevents a plan or activity from succeeding

The funding for the project was withdrawn so that really threw a spanner in the works. 企劃案的資金被撤回，這真的打亂了計劃。

 (Watch Foo Fighters- Monkey Wrench)

6. be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey idiom冷得要命 to be very cold

Resources:

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/12/monkey-business-and-other-phrases/

http://www.englishpractice.com/words/monkey-idioms/

http://www.submerryn.com/2016/01/cny-angpow-monkey-origami.html

http://www.chine-culture.com/en/origami/animals/origami-of-monkey.php