Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom

1. Ilhana Škrgić, PhD student &teacher @ the elementary school “25. novembar” Velika Kladuša, Bosnia and Herzegovina Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom

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5. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Idioms are often a complex and difficult component of English language that we have to teach to our students – so why not have fun with figurative language in the classroom and provide a clear understanding of these important cultural elements?

6. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom This workshop is focused on idioms with body parts, particularly with the component „heart“, as these idioms are closely connected to human emotions, with which our students are often preoccupied on a daily basis in their pre-teen and teenage years.

7. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Bothmetaphor and metonymy play a large role in understanding idioms and other language features.- embodiment -

8. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “...languages... reveal a tendency to employ the domain of internal body organs as a source of conceptualizations for the human faculties of thought and emotion, for personality traits, for mood, etc. This is not astonishing, in view of the fact that people all over the world, independent of their cultural backgrounds and culture-specific conceptualization of the body itself, do have bodies that are basically similar and therefore necessarily share bodily experiences.“(Sharifian et al, 2008)

9. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Differentcultureshavedifferentpointsoflocation for the human mind, identifyingthreemaincenters: theabdomenregion, theheartregion, andtheheadregion. Languages, therefore, canbedividedinto:-abdomenocentric,-cardiocentric, and-cerebrocentric

10. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom CLASSIFICATION:1. Heart as a metonymy for A PERSON‘S FEELINGS2. Heart as a metonymy for a PERSON AS A WHOLE3. Heart as an OBJECT OF VALUE4. Heart as a CONTAINER5. Heart as a metonymy for WILL/REASON6. Heart as a MEASURING INSTRUMENT7. Heart as a CENTER

11. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Heartas a metonymy for A PERSON‘S FEELINGS (1)close to someone's heart Animal rights is an issue very close to my heart.

12. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Heart as a metonymy for a PERSON AS A WHOLE(2)be a bleedingheartPeoplekeeptelling me to stop beingsuch a bleedingheart. «That's life», theysay.

13. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Heart as an OBJECT OF VALUE(3) lose yourheart to someone or somethingPaul Gauguin lost his heart to the Pacific islandswiththeirsilky white sandsandParisian-style cafes.

14. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Heart as a CONTAINER(4) pouryourheartoutI'd only met him once, and here he was, pouring out his heart to me.

15. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Heart as a metonymy for WILL/REASON(5) have a change ofheart«Goodfellas» marked a change ofheart for Scorcese, who had sworn he wouldnevermake a film abouttheMafia.

16. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Heart as a MEASURING INSTRUMENT(6) know/learnsomethingbyheartHe's myfavourite poet. I knowseveralof his poemsbyheart.

17. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Heart as a CENTER (7) inyourheartofhearts I knewinmyheartofheartsthatsomethingwaswrong, but I justwasn't ready to dealwith it.

18. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “...if they are amused, angered, challenged, intrigued or surprised the content is clearly meaningful to them. Thus the meaning of the language they listen to, read, speak and write will be more vividly experienced, and, therefore, better remembered.”(Wright et al., 1994)

19. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Useful tips:- introduce idioms thematically- introduce them to younger students too (the easy idioms)- make sure all words are familiar- use idioms in everyday questions- use them in context

20. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Games- incorporate all four skills- motivate your students-provide a fun time in the classroom!

21. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom The Magnificent Seven:“Little Picasso” “Charades”“Pictionary”“Idiom Sneak”“X-Rays”“Indioma Jones”“Sing Me An Idiom”

22. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “Little Picasso”- for students who are not yet capable of conversing in English, idioms can be presented simply as a theme of an art project (topical posters presenting somatic idioms, animal idioms, etc.)

23. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “Charades”- organising students in groups, where each group receives a prompt in the form of an idiom that they have to act out in order to receive points (e.g. pretending to „be a bleeding heart“, where the other students need to guess the idiom)

24. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “Pictionary”- after learning about new idioms, have your students draw a representation of an idiom and guess their partner’s idiom based on the drawing (pair work)

25. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “Idiom Sneak”- organise competitions where students need to lead a normal conversation in English using as many idioms as possible (teacher can provide additional constraints such as using idioms learned in previous classes, etc.)

26. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “X-Rays”- have students draw or in some other way present an idiom as being different from the learned phrase (for example, „Queen of Hearts“ would then be drawn as the „queen of spades“ card – reversed association), where their pairs need to guess the right idiom

27. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “Indioma Jones”- for advanced students, idioms can also present a challenge in discovering the origin – etymological research using modern technology

28. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom “Sing Me An Idiom”- using lyrics of contemporary songs that appeal to their current taste in music, have the students find and underline idioms present in the text

29. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Song suggestions:ABC – “All Of My Heart”Phil Collins – “True Colors”Katy Perry – “Firework”Adele – “Rolling In The Deep” - Weird Al Yankovic “Genius in France”

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32. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom Useful links: http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/idiom-day-hearthttp://quizasunaexpresioninglesameayude.blogspot.com/2010/03/wear-your-heart-on-your-sleeve.htmlhttp://www.theenglishstudent.com/blog/category/idiomshttp://headoverheelsforteaching.blogspot.com/2014/02/workshop-wednesday-bring-idiom-to-school.htmlhttp://learningenglishwithmichelle.blogspot.com/2014/02/idioms-of-heart-for-valentines-day.htmlhttp://hahasforhoohas.com/thank-you-from-bottom-of-heart-funny-ecardhttp://busyteacher.org/4572-5-must-know-tips-on-teaching-idioms.htmlwww.pinterest.com

33. Win Your Students’ Hearts: Fun with Idioms in the Classroom ilhana.skrgic@bih.net.bawww.cursedpoet.net