I Love Idioms: With Cartoon Illustrations
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Ahmad Shafiq Ahmad Kamal
Dr Shahida Sulaiman (Dr Shahi) is an associate professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She has been serving in the academic line since 2004. Her research fields include software engineering and knowledge management. As an academician, she has a strong interest in finding ways and strategies to ease learning mainly in English as a Second Language (ESL). As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) grows rapidly and most studies are in the English language, she believes one must master the language in order to be competitive. This book is hence one of her strategies to inspire readers to love English by learning the commonly used idioms in a fun and easy way. Ahmad Shafiq Ahmad Kamal (ASAK) is an aspiring young cartoonist. His first creative work was the illustration for a book entitled “Senangnya Cakap Inggeris” written by Dr Shahi. This book will be his first book with Dr Shahi that includes all his cartoons based on the concepts designed by Dr Shahi. Currently ASAK is creating his own cartoon characters for his own comic. Dr Zarina Mustafa is a senior lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She specialises in Curriculum & Instructions, and also in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Teaching has always been her passion. She has a colourful experience in the discipline, having had the opportunity to teach in daily secondary schools and also at the tertiary level. Her research area of interest is the sustainability of curriculum innovation, mainly on the adoption of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in the classrooms. As an educationist, she warmly welcomes this pedagogically designed book as a part of the endeavour to motivate fun learning of idioms.
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I Love Idioms - Ahmad Shafiq Ahmad Kamal
I LOVE
IDIOMS
with Cartoon Illustrations
D:\Shahida\MyBook\English-Idiom\CoverPage\TheBestOfBothWorlds_colored.jpgShahida Sulaiman,
Ahmad Shafiq Ahmad Kamal,
Zarina Mustafa
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ISBN: eBook 978-1-4828-3017-0
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Idioms as a Noun or Noun Phrase
1. A Bad Egg
2. A Bird’s Eye View
3. A Blessing in Disguise
4. A Bookworm
5. A Chip on One’s Shoulder
6. A Dime A Dozen
7. A Drop in the Bucket
8. A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
9. A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
10. A Piece of Cake
11. A White Elephant
12. Actions Speak Louder than Words
13. Apple of One’s Eye
14. Cock and Bull Story
15. Dry Run
16. Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
17. Field Day
18. Flash in the Pan
19. Good Samaritan
20. Gut Feeling
21. Practice Makes Perfect
22. Rise and Shine
23. Rule of Thumb
24. Scapegoat
25. The Ball is in Your Court
26. The Best of Both Worlds
27. You are What You Eat
28. Zero Tolerance
Chapter 2 Idioms as an Adjective or Adjective Phrase
1. All Ears
2. All in the Same Boat
3. As High as a Kite
4. At One’s Fingertips
5. Back to Square One
6. Blood is Thicker than Water
7. Cast Iron Stomach
8. Chicken-Hearted
9. Down-to-Earth
10. Fixed in Your Ways
11. Icing on the Cake
12. In Black and White
13. In the Dark
14. It’s a Small World
15. It’s Anyone’s Call
16. Last but Not Least
17. New Kid on the Block
18. Off the Record
19. On the Same Page
20. Rome was Not Built in One Day
Chapter 3 Idioms as a Verb or Verb Phrase
1. Add Fuel to the Fire
2. Barking up the Wrong Tree
3. Beating around the Bush
4. Bend over Backwards
5. Building Castles in the Air
6. Buy a Lemon
7. Crack Someone Up
8. Cry over Spilt Milk
9. Cry Wolf
10. Cut to the Chase
11. Don’t Count Your Chickens before They Hatch
12. Don’t Put all Your Eggs in One Basket
13. Drink