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Originally Posted by blouen  Itīs great!
But I think itīs just one or your pack of ways of teaching idioms, right?
I read about how Noego does it. He grabs a picture/drawing taken from one goodly site, and shows it to his students, giving them the idiom. He allows the students decipher itīs meaning out of the idiom itself and the given picture. If ever his students couldnīt get it, he does give hints and sample sentences.... Have you tried it? |
As I said at the start, there are many approaches to teaching idioms. I gave you one that I try most often.
The trick is to get the student to think while they are reading. Figuring out the meaning of an idiom is no different than figuring out the meaning of a hard word. Native English speakers don't know the meaning of every word/idiom that they read. But when we come upon an unknown word/idiom we take our
best guess at its meaning based on the context of the text around it. Most of the time our guesses are pretty close. If you see the word again in another piece of writing you might change your guess based on it's context or it might confirm your first guess.
Believe it or not...if we are exposed to the word often enough we might even take the time to look up the meaning in a dictionary of words/idioms and add it permanently to our vocabulary.
Evaluating context is very important in English and other languages too for that matter.