Idioms in Your Pocket

Learning idioms present a host of difficulties to English learners, primarily because they do not know the culture and history behind English idioms. That is why they often use idioms incongruous with the situation. Indeed, English learners utilize idiomatic expressions very carefully, being afraid of using them incorrectly and being misunderstood. They find idioms very problematic to both understand and memorize.

Working on this quest to understand idioms of English language you have come to a level to use them in your language production at ease. Learning the idioms related to a certain culture helps you learn more about the history customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of it. 

You can expand your inventory of idioms by the following:

• Check for meaning by asking the speaker if you hear an idiom you do not understand. 

• Many books, novels and articles quote many to their context relevant idioms. While you read I encourage you to take note of idioms that occur and to learn their meaning using one of the links provided in this WebQuest. 

• Continue with adding idioms as you read in your Idiom Notebook that you created as an ongoing register or reference guide for this quest. 

• Be brave and confident to use these idioms in your every day conversations and communications, this will help you sound more like a native speaker of English!

• Be proud of yourselves having started 'a journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step!'

  Credits

We would like to thank our Professor Emilija Zlatkovska, for introducing us to the world of the WebQuests.