Description:
Upgrade your English w/ 300 essential idioms. Idioms & phrasal verbs are difficult for non-natives. Idiom Attack's 25 easy-to-read topics have meanings & examples in English & French for intermediate to advanced English students.
Brief description: Matthew Douma grew up in a small rural town in Southern Canada. Ever since his early childhood years, Matthew has had a deep interest in Asia and made his first visit when he was just fifteen years old. As an avid outdoorsman and adventurer, Matthew enjoys sports of all sorts including Taekwondo. Matthew also has a passion for mountain climbing, sailing and writing as hobbies. Residing in Seoul with his lovely wife Sun Hee and daughter Ennik, he works as an English education consultant and author of English educational material.
Review Quotes:
1." Peter Liptak [...] equipped his readers with the tool that will ensure that all these idioms stick in our cute little brains..." - CorpsLeg (CorpsLeg Review)
2." [...] if those questions were not there, I doubt I would have learned as much as I did." - Annie Abdul (Annie Abdul's Review)
3."Idiom Attack Vol. 1 Everyday Living (Sim. Chinese Edition) helped me understand the beauty of idioms in our conversations [...] I cannot imagine how valuable many Chinese ESL learners will find this book."- Juan Roy (Juan Roy's Review)
4."The book also contains meme-like images that depict some of the idioms contained in the book [...] but most importantly, they helped the idioms stick in my head..."- Shara Scotts (Scotts' Review)
5."There are also exercises that encourage you to talk to classmates and those will definitely be more beneficial for a class." - Cassandra Chan (Cassandra Chan's Review)
6."[...] there is also a distinct section where the author poses a few more general questions about different aspects in everyone's life [...] some of these questions are really intriguing and serve as a good speaking topic in group learning." - Simina Dinca (Simina Dinca's Review)
7."The authors went a step further by providing questions for discussions and exercises to test the readers' understanding of the idioms explained and to see if they can use them correctly." - Lorddenin (Lorddenin's Review)
8. 5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book! "I've studied Chinese for years, and my high school adopted a program where they get a Chinese person (1 a year) to help teach the class and expose us to real Chinese. My teacher got this book to help the assistants figure out what we were saying in English! It's just like our regular textbooks, but sooooo much more useful! I've gone over some of the stuff in here with our assistant teacher and she's getting more comfortable with English, just like I am with Chinese!"