English Idioms

I make it a point to teach at least one idiom from the 'American' English language a week to all of my students. It is important that they are taught directly idioms and other common sayings peppered in everyday conversations. Due to their deafness, most of my students are not exposed to idioms in the way typically hearing children are. So someone needs to teach them or make them aware and I am glad to help. I tell the parents this too and as always I have some books I recommend.

I thought I put some of them here, so that if you are interested in working with a child in expanding their English language, check these books out:

Parts (Picture Puffins)     More Parts (Picture Puffins)    Even More Parts  In a Pickle: And Other Funny Idioms

Monkey Business   Raining Cats and Dogs: A Collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People  The World Is Your Oyster Monkey Business: Fun with Idioms (Milet Wordwise series)

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7 comments:

  1. Amelia Bedelia help as well.

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  2. I always found that English language awareness books by the Americans, a misnomer in terms :) They leave out many vowels e.g. It's English, just not as we know it lol.........

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  3. you mean like Colour and Color?

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  4. Yes :)

    The Italians they have all the vowels
    the Czech's have all the consonants.
    The Australian cannot finish a word and only use the first 3 or 4 letters,
    the Welsh have extra letters ll's, and no K.

    It's a wonder King George bothered fighting and colonising most of them lol. And the Americans still owe us for the tea they threw away....

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  5. Ok, I changed it to 'American' English.

    Oh yes the tea. . .LOL

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  6. Idioms are always complicated--for Deaf AND hearing kids alike. I've found that if you're able to give the history behind an idiom, Deaf students grasp them better and use them more. I recommend "Idioms for Idiots" by Scholastic, I believe. My book is at my office, so I can't check. I love this book because it gives background on why the idiom began in the first place. Works wonders with my students (English teacher here).

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  7. Checked up on the book. It's the Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms by Marvin Terban. ;-)

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