Animal Idioms and their Use in Foreign Language Lessons

By Mandy Busse

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 "Bindf den" (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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3668353212
• ISBN13: 9783668353213
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.0" x 8.3" x 11.7"