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AMERICAN IDIOMS
Pamela McPartland
This text helps intermediate-level ESL students understand and use 87 high-frequency phrasal verbs and verbal idioms. The idioms are presented in meaningful contexts throughout each chapter, and a variety of exercises and activities provides extensive practice with the idioms in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Appropriate for special classes in idioms, vocabulary, or listening comprehension, or as an ancillary text for grammar, conversation, listening, reading, or writing courses.
• focuses on high-frequency verbal idioms (e.g., grow up, get in touch with, sign up for, turn down, and take over)
• each chapter introduces 6 to 12 idioms related to a specific topic (e.g., sports, education, politics, and lifestyles)
—idioms are introduced in reading selections about contemporary topics (e.g., the Olympics, illiteracy, dieting, lifestyles)
• re-introduces the idioms in meaningful contexts in exercises and follow-up activities,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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AMERICAN IDIOMS
Pamela McPartland
This text helps intermediate-level ESL students understand and use 87 high-frequency phrasal verbs and verbal idioms. The idioms are presented in meaningful contexts throughout each chapter, and a variety of exercises and activities provides extensive practice with the idioms in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Appropriate for special classes in idioms, vocabulary, or listening comprehension, or as an ancillary text for grammar, conversation, listening, reading, or writing courses.
• focuses on high-frequency verbal idioms (e.g., grow up, get in touch with, sign up for, turn down, and take over)
• each chapter introduces 6 to 12 idioms related to a specific topic (e.g., sports, education, politics, and lifestyles)
—idioms are introduced in reading selections about contemporary topics (e.g., the Olympics, illiteracy, dieting, lifestyles)
• re-introduces the idioms in meaningful contexts in exercises and follow-up activities, some of which draw attention to the syntactic and semantic properties of the idioms. Each chapter contains:
—warm-up exercises
—reading exercises (comprehension, inference, main idea) —meaning exercises (the subjects and objects that are appropriate to each idiom)
—grammar exercises (prepositions and participles; the position of object pronouns)
—listening comprehension exercises (the correct placement of stress for
each idiom) —writing exercises
—conversation activities (acting it out; talk it over)
• includes two review sections that provide additional practice and allow for the integration of idioms from different chapters
• provides an answer key
• features stimulating photographs, some funny, others intriguing, all designed to generate discussion
CONTENTS:
1. Sports. 2. Family. 3. Communication. 4. Education. 5. Food. Review I: Mix Them Up. 6. Persistence. 7. Politics. 8. Success. 9. Sickness. 10. Lifestyles. Review II: What's Up? Vissza