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Idioms are Wonderful...and Confusing!
Every single day we use idioms. They are so difficult sometimes and yet so necessary. Hopefully some of the links below will help you have a better understanding of these important phrases.
So, let's 'get down to brass tacks,' 'roll up our sleeves,' and 'tackle this task' of learning English idioms.
I've created two free downloadable idioms ebooks. Let me know what you think.
All of these Idioms websites in two PDF documents!
Download these two documents and SEND them to the World!!
Idioms Links
- The Idiom Site
- Links to many definitions
- Idioms Dictionary
- Free Idioms Dictionary
- Dave's ESL Cafe
- The best comprehensive ESL site on the web. A very good place to find ESL jobs.
- ESL Idiom Page
- Links to still more idioms for the ESL learner
- Technorati links
- What Technorati has to say about idioms
- Go English
- General ESL learning website
- Using English
- General ESL learning site
- Rong Chang
- Rong Chang's website
New Amazon Standard
Speak English Like an American (Book & Audio CD set)
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 12/29/2009) 
A Year In the Life of an ESL (English Second Language) Student: Idioms and Vocabulary You Can't Live Without
Amazon Price: $20.84 (as of 12/29/2009)
Speak Business English Like an American: Learn the Idioms & Expressions You Need to Succeed On The Job! (Book & Audio CD)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/29/2009)
ESL Magazines
Idiom Blogs
ESL Books
Reading, Writing and Learning in ESL: A Resource Book for Teaching K-12 English Learners (with MyEducationLab) (5th Edition)
Amazon Price: $74.28 (as of 12/29/2009)
Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary For Beginning ESL Learners (Practice Makes Perfect Series)
Amazon Price: $8.60 (as of 12/29/2009)
Bilingual And Esl Classrooms: Bilingual And English-as-a-second-language Classrooms
Amazon Price: $73.00 (as of 12/29/2009)
Free Downloadable Idioms Ebooks
Read them and pass them to the World!
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Comments, Corrections, Suggestions?
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- Spook Spook Feb 2, 2009 @ 4:04 am
- How's about is it and just now as food for thought
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- JackMac JackMac Dec 16, 2008 @ 9:02 am
- You might find this website interesting: http://www.englishdaily626.com/idioms.php#Tongue-in-Cheek. It uses the idiom in one sentence and then follows with another sentence that uses the definition. Idiom and definition are bolded.
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- Idiomatic Idiomatic Oct 15, 2008 @ 8:04 am
- Hi!
Please consider adding this site to the above idiom links: http://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/dictionary/english/idioms
Thank you!
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- KeshiaKola KeshiaKola May 3, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
- The Shesaurus is a great book of female idioms. Check out their website, www.shesaurus.com.
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