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Tag Archives: idioms
6 Online Dictionaries for English Learners
Elena Shvidko
Dictionaries are an extremely useful source of information about a language, and they can certainly be very helpful to our students as well. Luckily, nowadays, various dictionaries are freely available on the internet, and I believe many of you are … Continue reading
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Tagged as collocations, etymology, evergreen, idioms, online dictionaries, online resources, synonyms
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Adapting Folktales for ELL Learning Activities
Nathan Hall
We content-based teachers often struggle with how to make students focus on the specific reading skills we want them to learn without being distracted or overwhelmed by the language. This gets more difficult when my activity focuses on fiction, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged as classroom practice, evergreen, fiction, idioms, Nathan Hall, reading comprehension, secondary education, teaching culture
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It’s a Piece of Cake: Easy Ways to Teach Tricky Idioms
Nathan Hall
If I described your writing assignment as “horse horse tiger tiger,” what am I saying about it? Would you “try to cut the pear in two” to figure out what my feedback meant? Or would you assume I “don’t have … Continue reading
6 Websites for Learning English Idioms
Elena Shvidko
When you ask university-level English language learners how they would like to improve their English, many of them say they want to use more idiomatic expressions. Unfortunately, teachers seem to rarely have time to explicitly teach idioms in class. Luckily, … Continue reading
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Tagged as elena shvidko, ESL writing, evergreen, idioms, online resources, self-directed learning, teaching writing, writing resources
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Teaching Idioms to Young English Learners
Judie Haynes
Well-chosen children’s literature can provide an excellent opportunity to explicitly teach the concept of idiomatic language to young English learners. Thematic units on friendship or feelings are an especially good way to introduce idioms and tie them to the lesson … Continue reading
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Figuring out the frequency of two word verbs
Joe McVeigh
The December 2011 TESOL Quarterly contains a wonderful study by Dilin Liu analyzing the frequency of phrasal verbs across several corpora. This is a really useful article for teachers and materials writers, with lots of great information in it and … Continue reading
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Tagged as analysis, corpus, Dilin Liu, ELT, ESL, frequency, idioms, Joe McVeigh, phrasal verbs, teaching, TESOL Quarterly, two-word verbs
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