Expressions of the Heart


	Expressions of the Heart
	Words for emotions are sometimes expressed by phrases that use the word ‘heart’, such as kind-hearted. Copala Trique, spoken in Oaxaca, expresses many such ideas using a word for ‘inside’. There are perhaps thirty or forty of these phrases in common use. Here are a few: to be colorful inside means to be cheerful to get hot inside means to get angry to cool off inside means to stop being angry See if you can match the following phrases with their correct meanings: 1. To be destroyed inside a. To be lazy b. To hold a grudge c. To be disappointed 2. To get dressed inside a. To be proud b. To wake up c. To be hopeful 3. To reach inside a. To dare, to be bold b. To be envious c. To be undecided 4. To go away inside a. To be surprised b. To be double minded c. To be uncaring 5. To cut off inside a. To be stubborn b. To be insensitive c. To change one’s mind How did you do? Here are five more: 6. To arrive home inside a. To be humble b. To feel one has “made it” c. To endure 7. To become true inside a. To be generous b. To be happy c. To be convinced 8. To be two inside a. To be vacillating b. To be angry c. To feel dizzy 9. To stop inside a. To be worried b. To be disgusted c. To like 10. To tuck inside a. To be selfish b. To realize, catch on c. To be welcoming Previous Section home Next
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