The challenges of teaching and learning idiomatic expressions (idioms) - Ricardo Madureira
24/06/2016
Idiomatic expressions pose an exciting challenge to students because their individual words take on a new meaning when the expression is considered as a whole and what is more, some expressions are completely opaque (that is, obscure in meaning), even when the students know…
TO MAKE TRACKS
IR EMBORA
It’s getting late. We’d better make tracksfor the tube station.
Está ficando tarde. É melhor irmos embora para a estação de metrô.
TO LICK SOMEBODY’S BOOTS
BAJULAR; PUXAR O SACO
I refuse to go licking his boots.
Eu me recuso a ficar…
