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Idioms: in the world , the classroom and E nglish as a L ingua F ranca

Idioms: in the world , the classroom and E nglish as a L ingua F ranca. What is… E nglish as a L ingua F ranca?. ‘English when it used as a contact language between people from different languages ( including native English speakers )’ (Jenkins, 2014: 24). EFL. E L F.

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Idioms: in the world , the classroom and E nglish as a L ingua F ranca

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  1. Idioms: in the world, the classroom and English as a Lingua Franca

  2. What is… English as a Lingua Franca?

  3. ‘English when it used as a contact language between people from different languages (including native English speakers)’ (Jenkins, 2014: 24).

  4. EFL ELF ESL L1

  5. What is the place of idiomaticity in English as a Lingua Franca?

  6. Native English metaphors and idioms are local forms that do not have international currency (Jenkins, 2014: 54)

  7. idiomatic usage, slang, phrasal verbs, puns, proverbs, cultural allusions and the like...as far as EIL is concerned, this sort of knowledge of the English language is ‘irrelevant’ ...if ELF is to succeed as a worldwide lingua franca. Its speakers will have to avoid this sort of cultural baggage. (Jenkins, 2000: 220).

  8. Spot the idiom…!

  9. ? POLONIUS: My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.

  10. POLONIUS: My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.

  11. POLONIUS: My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. HAMLET: You cannot, sir,take from me any thing that I willmore willingly part withal: exceptmy life, exceptmy life, except my life.

  12. ? HAMLET: Sir, I lack advancement. ROSENCRANTZ: How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark? HAMLET: Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,’ - the proverbis something musty.

  13. HAMLET: Sir, I lack advancement. ROSENCRANTZ: How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark? HAMLET: Ay, but sir,'While the grass grows,’ - the proverbis something musty.

  14. While the grass grows the good horse starves (first attested 1350)

  15. While the grass grows the good horse starves (first attested 1350) To content myself, according tothis English proverb that it is my hap to starve like a horse, while the grass doth grow (letter, Edward de Vere 1576)

  16. ? SHYLOCK: Do as I bid you; shut doors after you: Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.

  17. SHYLOCK: Do as I bid you; shut doors after you: Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.

  18. ? ROMEO: A torch for me. Let wantons light of heart Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels. For I am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase, I’ll be a candle holder, and look on.

  19. ROMEO: A torch for me. Let wantons light of heart Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels. ForI am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase, I’ll be a candle holder, and look on.

  20. The idiomatic puzzle

  21. What I’d like to demonstrate today. Here and 1____, all things being 2______, And time waiting for no 3______, Is to explain, and, at this point in 4_____, Without further 5______, it might be appropriate To reflect on the matter in 6______, In other words, so to 7______, what I mean by this, without Jumping on any specific 8_______, And please feel 9_____ to Contradict me, as I’ve often said, And I think this is particularly Relevant, indeed I could Go on about it at some 10______, At the end of the 11_____, despite All appearances to the 12______ Life is not always a bowl of 13________.

  22. What I’d like to demonstrate today. Here and 1____, all things being 2______, And time waiting for no 3______, Is to explain, and, at this point in 4 time, Without further 5______, it might be appropriate To reflect on the matter in 6______, In other words, so to 7______, what I mean by this, without Jumping on any specific 8_______, And please feel 9_____ to Contradict me, as I’ve often said, And I think this is particularly Relevant, indeed I could Go on about it at some 10______, At the end of the 11_____, despite All appearances to the 12______ Life is not always a bowl of 13________. now equal man ado hand speak bandwagon free length day contrary cherries

  23. The problem is often one of collocation… Gwyneth Fox

  24. ? Hercule Poirot… On a wild gooseberry hunt…

  25. colligation…

  26. ‘Aha!’ said Poirot. ‘Aha! Mon Dieu! Japp thatgives one to think, does it not?’ I saw that it had certainlynot given Japp to think.’

  27. ‘Aha!’ said Poirot. ‘Aha! Mon Dieu! Japp thatMAKES YOU THINK, does it not?’ I saw that it had certainlyNOT MADE Japp THINK’

  28. What can happen to idioms in the classroom?

  29. ? I learnt how to make Turkish coffee easily, but Italian espressowas a completely different kettle of fishes.

  30. ? When the new cook started work, Basil wasalways pulling his legs

  31. ? Mrs Johnson said she wasglad to see Pablo’s back

  32. ? Don’t worry about the kids arguing it’s justa storm in a cup of tea

  33. ? Raffaella was having an argument with her sister when she suddenlyturned me on

  34. ? I’d forgotten that Mrs Mathews’ sister died last week, so when I asked who the photograph was of, I reallyput my foot on it.

  35. What do we mean by idiomaticity?

  36. an idiom is a combination of two or more words which function as a unit of meaning. (Cowie and Mackin, 1975).

  37. Type Cliches, fixed expressions Pragmatic idioms Collocations Binomials, trinomials ‘colourful’ idioms Proverbs and sayings Quotations, allusions Discourse Markers Phrasal verbs Colligations Compounds One-offs Examples The wages of sin; the coast is clear Pleased to meet you; say when River+rise; make+application heavy+fine Bed and breakfast; hook, line and sinker Red herring; fly off the handle, run the gauntlet It never rains but it pours; kill two birds To be or not to be; the best laid-schemes You know; I mean; of course, sort of Take off; make up for It is interesting/likely/true that Dry cleaner; phonecard Kith and kin; arms akimbo; by dint of; on bended knees

  38. What can happen to idioms in the world?

  39. - It’s rainingkittens and puppies - It’s like puttingthe cat before the horse

  40. What type of idiomaticity is this?

  41. the  Iraq Dossier had been ‘sexed up’… BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan. 29 May 2003. Alastair Cambell, Blair’s‘Spin Doctor’.

  42. Whenever I really don't want to do something I say:Wild horses on their bended knees...wouldn't get me etc.

  43. Wild horses couldn’t drag me away

  44. Whenever I really don't want to do something I say:Wild horses on their bended knees...wouldn't get me etc.

  45. What is Creative Idiomaticity?

  46. Regular variation on and off / off and on built-in/in-built drag your feet/heels take the biscuit/take the cake

  47. Creative idiomaticity Irregular variation

  48. ? get one's knickers in a twist

  49. University organisation is a bit of a mess,they have their knickers in a twistwith time tables…

  50. The stuff that most peopleget their knickers in atangleover What seems to havegottwistedis somebody’sknickers Somebody’sreally being gettingher drawersin a twist

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