Idioms are an important part of English because they are what native speakers use on a regular basis. My experience has been that students enjoy finding out the meaning of the idiom phrases, and get particularly motivated when they hear idioms in films or TV programmes that they watch.
But as I mentioned in class today, mastering the use of idioms is difficult. So for now, only use the idioms taught in class in your spoken English and avoid using them in your writing unless you are totally confident about how to use them (do remember that idioms are generally used in more informal occasions!).
The best way to learn idioms is to use them. Make sentences which are personal to you to make you remember the idioms taught. So for example:
Today, I was meant to be meeting the Principal about something important. But because I'm such a goldfish I totally forgot about the meeting and went to play football instead. Unfortunately, because we did not have the meeting, the oringinal plans we had ended up in smoke. So that I didn't get in trouble, I lied to the Principal that I was too ill to attend the meeting. Please don't let the cat out of the bag, otherwise I will get in serious trouble...wait, speaking of the devil, the Principal has just walked into the room...
So of course the above is not true!!! But, by writing a short story using the idioms, it makes it easier for me to remember them. That's why I would like each group to make a short drama to present the idioms starting from next week - make it memorable for yourselves and your classmates and everyone will be able to remember the idioms a bit better.
Hope you have fun learning the idioms!
(I will definitely take some pictures tomorrow to upload to the blog!)
No comments:
Post a Comment