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Common Thai idioms
An AR classroom game for Grade 4. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.
This set has 4 rounds in an interactive matching activity.
Curriculum indicatorท 4.1 ป.4/6
A look before you play
Sample questions
A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.
Match each idiom to its meaning.
- หัวหกก้นขวิด (head over heels)
- ปิดทองหลังพระ (gild the back of the Buddha image)
- สอนจระเข้ให้ว่ายน้ำ (teach a crocodile to swim)
- ขว้างงูไม่พ้นคอ (throw the snake and it lands round your neck)
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An idiom says a thing in a picture rather than plainly.
Match each idiom to its meaning.
- พูดไปสองไพเบี้ย (speaking is worth two small coins)
- ฟังหูไว้หู (listen with one ear held back)
- ปากว่าตาขยิบ (the mouth scolds while the eye winks)
- น้ำท่วมปาก (the mouth is flooded)
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Idioms about speaking and listening.
Match each word to its meaning in the idiom.
- ไพเบี้ย (phaibia)
- ขวิด (khwit)
- ปิดทอง (pit thong)
- ขว้าง (khwang)
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Old words that survive in idiom though nobody uses them otherwise.
Before you play
Game teaching guide
What children will practise
Practises the meanings of twelve common Thai idioms and proverbs, plus old words that survive inside them such as ไพเบี้ย and ขวิด. This fits indicator ท 4.1 ป.4/6 (give the meaning of idioms).
What's in the worksheet
4 questions, a matching game with four pairs in each - Match หัวหกก้นขวิด to never still, always into something - Match ปากว่าตาขยิบ to saying one thing and doing another - Match ไพเบี้ย to a very small sum of money - Match อย่าผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง to do not keep deferring the work
How to use it in class
Use it about halfway through an idioms unit, as a 6-8 minute opener. Solo play is fine since each question has only four pairs. In a large class, play in teams and ask the winning team to give a situation where the idiom would fit. Question 3, on the old words, is where children usually stall: pause and describe what laying gold leaf or goring with horns actually looks like before moving on. You can link it to a class and record it in the gradebook.
Common sticking points
- Swapping พูดไปสองไพเบี้ย and น้ำท่วมปาก, since both are about not speaking. Separate them: the first means you could speak but it would do no good, the second that you cannot speak. - Mismatching ขว้างงูไม่พ้นคอ because the image is unfamiliar. Act out the throw. - In question 3, matching ขวิด to to hurl away because the word is new. Get them to picture a buffalo charging with its horns.
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