Today’s phrase is….
There’s no telling/knowing….
Introduce it with a few examples:
There’s no telling who’s going to win the next elections.
There’s no knowing how the situation in Ukraine is going to develop.
Lead students to the meaning: “nobody knows/it’s impossible to know”, point out that the expression is typically followed by a question word. Challenge them to work in pairs to complete the sentences below while covering a range of topics:
- There’s no knowing/telling who…
- There’s no knowing/telling what…
- There’s no knowing/telling where…
- There’s no knowing/telling how long….
- There’s no knowing/telling how much….
- There’s no knowing/telling which…
- There’s no knowing/telling when…
Topics: politics, pop culture (music, films, video games, etc.), school/class/exams, class gossip, celebrity gossip, science and technology, finance and business, etc.
Here’s the Quizlet set of all the previous phrases of the day.
