In class today I read out an Idiomatic Love Story that I created a while ago.
Below is an animation of one of the 10 chapters of the book. The hero Frederick, abandoned his girfriend and then turned up again a year later....
An Idiomatic Story Part 4 by Janet Bianchini on GoAnimate
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I pre-taught the idioms in the story by handing out a set of flashcards printed from Quizlet. I asked the students to do a matching exercise and to try to work out the meaning of each idiom by checking with each other, and also looking up in their dictionaries or digital devices.
I think the idioms were fairly difficult, but we were able to discuss the meanings before I actually read out the story. The students were then easily able to identify the idioms I had pre-taught via the flashcards, and the context became clear.
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