This text helps students understand and use 100 high-frequency American idioms in various grammatical and situational contexts.
-- Twenty self-contained lessons move from highly controlled to less-controlled use of idioms.
-- Provides intensive practice in exercises designed for fluency attainment as well as comprehension.
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Each lesson features a seven-part dialogue that introduces the idioms,
with usage notes, structure practice, and comprehension exercises.
Learning idioms is an essential element for English as a Second
Language students. This book not only contains an extensive list of
useful and commonly used idioms but, in contrast to others, includes
exercises with each lesson helping ensure that the material is
remembered.
Phrases and Idioms DEFINED AND EXEMPLIFIED (with exercises)
Цель данного учебного пособия — способствовать развитию навыков разговорной речи и обогащению лексики и фразеологии при изучении разговорного английского языка. Сборник включает около 700 словосочетаний, фразеологических оборотов и идиом, значение которых раскрывается при помощи синонимичных выражений или путем описательного объяснения на английском языке. Каждое словосочетание, оборот и идиома сопровождается примером на употребление их в предложении и в диалоге.
The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer
Book Description
"Bite the bullet", " get on the stick",
"make no bones about it", " take the cake". The American Heritage(R)
Dictionary of Idioms covers almost 10,000 expressions. Its main fare
is, of course, idioms - groups of two or more words that together mean
something different from the literal meaning of the individual words.
In addition, this book discusses verb phrases such as " act up",
"freeze out", and " get down", figures of speech such as "dark horse"
and "blind as a bat", interjections and formulas like "says who" and "
tough beans", common proverbs like a "bird in the hand", and slang
terms such as "buy the farm" and "push up daisies". Each entry is
defined and has an example sentence showing the expression in context.
Most entries offer an explanation of the expression's literal meaning
or origin and include information about its first appearance in
English.
McGraw-Hill's
Essential American Idioms
Dictionary
The Up-to-Date Guide to the Idioms of Modern American English
Whether you are a learner of English who is having difficulty understanding expressions in everyday speech or a native speaker who wants to expand your written or spoken range, you need a comprehensive reference for idioms, common phrases, and sayings of American English.
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