Why Learn Phrases For The 11+ Exams?
It is important to learn some 11+ phrases for comprehension and writing. In all 11+ comprehensions, there will be some expressions (or idioms) that students will be expected to understand. It is often quite difficult to work out the meanings of these English idioms, you either know them or you don’t, and if it is the latter, they can cause students considerable confusion.
Below are a list of some common 11+ phrases that have appeared in past 11+ comprehensions and which will also help boost your creative writing. These expressions should be learnt, or at least recognised, as it seems 11+ examiners are very keen to use them.
11+ Phrases
- A favourite haunt: a popular place where people gather
- When something “is rife”: when something is in widespread use or existence (e.g. disease, corruption)
- It had always struck me: it had always seemed to me / was clear to me
- A chapter in one’s life: a period or stage in one’s life (e.g. childhood)
- To find a parallel in something: to find something similar or the same
- To hedge one’s bets: to protect yourself against any loss (often by supporting more than one possible result)
- It had never occurred to me: I had never thought of something
- For something to stand you in good stead: something that will be of great use or benefit to someone
- To scrape the bottom of the barrel: the very last or the very worst of something
- To get the ball rolling: to get something started
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