Idioms: from the known to the new

Watch this great webinar organised by AACI Certificates, Bell English and The English Corner by Clare Henderson! More info:

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Just like single words, idioms are born and die out. Over the past few decades, some have become mainstream, arriving from such sources as TV series, films, and internet culture.
In this webinar, we will recap what we understand by ‘idiom’, and consider idioms’ teachability and learnability. Using a lexical set (‘body’ idioms), we can see how a scaffolded lesson moves from prior lexical knowledge to collocation to exploration of idiomatic meaning.
We will also look at some more up-to-date idioms, with their meanings and origins, so you can broaden your own lexical repertoire and enjoy this fascinating language area ‘big time.’

OUR SPEAKER
Clare Henderson has been an EFL teacher since 1987 and a trainer since 1996. She has given teacher training workshops in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg and has worked at Bell Cambridge since 1994. She is a regular reviewer for Modern English Teacher magazine, a proof-readr for Cambridge Assessment and a former examiner. She has run the Contemporary English course for Bell Teacher Campus every Summer for the past 10 years. Her interests are language evolution and change, testing, course books and grammar.