English in Color [antikvár]

FOREWORD English in Color contains 61 idioms In which color plays a principal role. The basic intent of the text is to help students of English as a foreign language increase their knowledge of idiomatic expressions and have fun while doing it. It is interesting to note that the colors most used in the id iomatic expressions are four: black, blue, red, and white, the most common being blue. The fact that blue is the most preferred color of the four probably would lead one to note, at least, that the sky is blue and so is the ocean and both surround the land masses on which people live! No doubt this color proclivity has psychological significance, but it is not the intent of this booklet to examine factors involved in the favoritism of these four colors. We will leave the discovery of the social, political, economic, religious—and emotional parameters—contained in colorful expressions to others. The five sections of each chapter provide an opportunity for lively discussion and practice using the idioms. The text may be used by students individually as resource material and individual study or by teachers as a supplemental language activity book in the classroom. Teachers so using the text are encouraged to elicit more communicative language activities by taking advantage of reactions evoked by the discussions. Some colorful language experiences await you!