Better safe than sorry...
Do you remember what an idiom is? Can you give a couple of examples?
Can you guess?
Do you know the idiom better safe than sorry? Do you know what it means? Can you guess?
Put a check (?) next to the answer you think it is.
If you’re safe, you will be sorry.
I’m sorry that I haven’t been safe.
You should choose to be safe or something bad might happen.
People who focus too much on safety are usually sorry.
What it means...
Read this definition from Oxford Learner’s Dictionary.
Listen and repeat
Go to Youglish and notice these people using Better safe than sorry in context. Click on the blue arrow to listen to lots of different versions. Listen and repeat the phrase with clear pronunciation each time you hear it.
Talk about it
For each situation, can you explain what better safe than sorry means?
Open Exercise 1 below and choose the situations in which you can use Better safe than sorry.
When you’re finished, come back and open Exercise 2, Better late than never and answer the questions.