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: A born-and-bred mid-western boy, Peter Liptak is a poet, world traveler and lover of language. Unlike most English majors, he actually made use of his degree teaching English to children and adults in South Korea for the last 20 years, as a private tutor, preschool teacher, and adjunct at Incheon University. While teaching and writing in Seoul, Peter completed a Master's in Korean History, and using Korea as a source of inspiration, linguistic and otherwise, penned several books including the controversial book of Korean Slang: As much as a Rat's Tail, translated the scathing graphic novel The Great Successor Kim Jong Un: a Political Cartoon, and created the Idiom Attack series. You can follow Peter at www.peteliptak.com or www.idiomattack.com
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!
"I've studied Japanese for years, and my high school adopted a program where they get a Japanese person (1 a year) to help teach the class and expose us to real Japanese. 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 Japanese!"
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Classroom Use! June 1, 2017
A very good tool. My friend used this in Spain while teaching English, and she said the students began using idioms whenever they could squeeze them into a sentence. It provides great example sentences, and you can easily turn the book into a lesson plan or create flashcards from it. English learners and English teachers alike should have these books.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Tool June 1, 2017
It's a very useful book. I like the many examples and the good organization of the book; it's easy to read and learn from. The color makes it stick out from other textbooks, too. I would recommend this series to anyone learning English. It really helps you understand everyday English phrases.
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great learning tool June 1, 2017
This is a great learning tool. Not only does it provide multiple examples of these idioms in English sentences, it also has fill in the blanks and crosswords to help you learn how to use them. These exercises and the CD make the book stick out (look, an idiom). This means you see the idioms, you hear them, and you practice using them. I'm glad there's a second book to this one.
5.0 out of 5 stars 유용합니다. October 31, 2012
미국에서 생활하면서 어려웠던 부분중 하나가 idiom이었는데요
많은 도움이 되었습니다.
그동안 접해왔던 책들은 조금 어색하거나 잘 쓰이지 않는 말이 많았는데 이책은 꽤 쓸만합니다.