Episode 175 given half a chance (rebroadcast)

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Episode 175-Transcript and Idiom Notes

Thursday, 16 August 2018

given half a chance

INTRODUCTION

An Idiom a Day…Top 20 Countdown

Number 7

Episode 62 | given half a chance

From the theme …Irish-American Heritage Month

This episode originally aired on 6 March 2018

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 TRIVIA

Bingo is a game of chance and there are at least 6000 non-repeating number combinations on one bingo card.

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 DID YOU KNOW…

Bingo cards were first used in German schools in the 1800s as an educational tool to teach students spelling, animal names, and multiplication tables. Today in many classrooms around the world bingo is still used as an instructional tool. The numbers can be replaced with unsolved math problems, pictures or vocabulary for teaching both English as a second language and English as a foreign language. B-I-N-G-O

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 Hello and welcome to episode 62…of… An Idiom a Day

I’m Gina Johnson and the Idiom of the Day …is… given half a chance

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One chance is all you need.

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given half a chance … if someone or something is given half a chance…they will do something if they get a slight opportunity

If he got a small opportunity, he would leave his job today.

Here is the same sentence using the idiom… given half a chance

If given half a chance, he’d leave this job today.

Here are a few more sentences using the idiom … given half a chance

Given half a chance, many people would eat pie for breakfast.

I’d live full-time in Paris given half a chance.

Given half a chance, he’d skip going the gym tomorrow morning.

chance is used as a noun in the idiom…given half a chance

Chance means if there is a chance of something happening, it is possible it will happen.

There is a slight chance of rain today.

#CONVERSATION STARTER

QUESTION

Have you ever played bingo for money?

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