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Embracing Diversity

Lesson 1: Ageless Idioms
Topic: Language Idioms & Spreadsheets/Statistics

Part of:
Unit: Embracing Diversity


  • Focus: This lesson will focus on teaching children about idioms, expressions that are unique to a language's vernacular and cannot, on the face of it, be understood from the individual meanings of the elements of the expression. Students will learn that each language has its own idiomatic expressions.

Activities | Introduction | Objectives | Resources & Web Sites


Activities

Activity 1A: Ageless Idioms and Extension Internet Idioms

(idiom, culture, idiomatic language, stereotype, age)
 
Activity 1B: Illustrating Ageless Idioms
(idiom, drawing, art, culture, idiomatic language, computer skill, stereotype, age, illustration)
 
Activity 1C: Ageless Idioms in Spanish and Extension Other Language
(idiom, Spanish idiom, Spanish, culture, idiomatic language, stereotype, age)
 
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Introduction

The unit begins with a Language Arts/Reading lesson called "Ageless Idioms." In this lesson students are taught about idioms and the unique forms they acquire for each language. Students are shown that directly translating an idiom from one language to another does not always make sense. Examples of idioms related to aging are presented in both English and Spanish. Internet resources are also listed for finding more idiom-based activities.

Before beginning this activity, explain to the students that an idiom is an expression or phrase that is unique to a particular language. All idioms have an underlying meaning — they can't be interpreted literally! Even when using seemingly common phrases, we may think we are saying one thing when another person, unfamiliar with the language, might think we are saying something else. For these reasons, when idioms are translated word for word from one language to another, they often do not make any sense.

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Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • define idioms
  • "translate" idioms into illustrations
  • discuss differences in “equality” of idioms in English and Spanish

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Resources & Web Sites

Toon in to Idioms - Toons and Voices or Text. Idioms illustrated with cartoons.
http://www.elfs.com/2nInX-Title.html

The Idiom Connection http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6720/

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