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Idioms Illustrated - Tricia Fuglestad

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8 to 12
 
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This Vimeo site for idioms was created, illustrated, and narrated by students with their teacher, Tricia Fuglestad. The video offers simple explanations for common idioms. This entertaining...more
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This Vimeo site for idioms was created, illustrated, and narrated by students with their teacher, Tricia Fuglestad. The video offers simple explanations for common idioms. This entertaining video is only four minutes long, but the illustrations will delight and the explanations will make the meaning of the idioms clear.

tag(s): idioms (30), vocabulary (241)

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Add this site to your classroom computers and send-home newsletters to help clear up the meanings of often confusing idioms with a humorous touch. Although the focus is on very young or ENL/ESL students, the cleverly done drawings approach of the videos might serve as a model for student creations of vocabulary word explanations. World language students, similarly, could create similar videos or in class presentations using the draw it, tell it technique to explain new vocabulary words. Challenge students to create a video of other idioms they come across, and share it using a site such as SchoolTube, reviewed here).