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| Contentid | 6617 |
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| Title | Ideas for Teaching Idioms in ESL |
| Body | A TESL-L listserv user suggests the following for teaching English idioms: Visual reminders can go a long way to help students understand and use idioms. I gave an assignment where I had students work in partners. I had idioms written on slips of paper, and the students drew one. One partner wrote the idiom on a sentence strip, and the other partner drew a picture on a large sheet of paper. There were very cute representations of such idioms as: button your lip, on top of the world, like a chicken with your head cut off, etc. We posted as many of these as our bulletin boards would hold. There's a cute poster of a number of idioms illustrated at this website--the top poster--back to school with idioms: http://www.teachertools.org/bulletinboards_dynam.asp#eoy You may be familiar with this website for ideas for idioms: http://www.eslcafe.com/idioms/id-list.html Pfeifer, J. Re: [TESL-L] Idioms-was Cultural Competency. Teachers of English As a Second Language List (TESL-L@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU, 10 Jul 2007). |
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| Inputdate | 2007-08-18 08:52:42 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-08-20 00:00:00 |
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