Animal Idioms and their Use in Foreign Language Lessons (eBook)

Mandy Busse (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
19 Seiten
GRIN Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-668-35320-6 (ISBN)

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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, University of Erfurt, language: English, abstract: Idioms are quite pleasant and fascinating linguistic phenomena to me. I connect idioms to a creative and competent use of language. Therefore, I can still remember the first idiom I learnt at school: It’s raining cats and dogs. At that time, it was just a funny gimmick during the English lesson. Today the study of English opens new vistas to this. Why isn’t it raining fish? Or one could as: Why isn’t it raining cats and dogs in Germany, but “Bindfäden” (twines)?

In this presentation I want to engage in the field of idiomatic expressions containing animal names. As this group is unmanageably wide, I will concentrate on phraseological units that are connected to cats and dogs. After having given a short general linguistic overview of the field concerning idioms, I will concentrate on the possibilities of using idioms in primary class. I will not only give arguments for it but also present material one could use in class.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2016
• Verlagsort: München
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• Schlagworte: animal • foreign • idioms • language • lessons
• ISBN-10: 3-668-35320-4 / 3668353204
• ISBN-13: 978-3-668-35320-6 / 9783668353206