With Flying Colors (Russian-English)
Description
What does it mean to have a green thumb?
How do you show your true colors?
Idioms can be confusing, but they help you to understand English and are a lot of fun to learn!
With clever multicultural illustrations, literal translations of the idioms, meanings in 2 languages, and English example sentences, With Flying Colors explains common color idioms in a way that makes them easy to understand. It's a perfect book to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students.
With Flying Colors includes bonus material to support English language learners and promote culturally responsive teaching, such as links to:
● English audio of the book
● Information about the history of the idioms in the book
● Additional color idioms, their meaning, and history
● Lesson plans to help teach idioms while exposing children to other cultures
With Flying Colors is a great resource to build language skills while having fun!
Other books in the Language Lizard Idiom Book Series (available in English and bilingual editions):
● Fresh as a Daisy - English Nature Idioms
● Icing on the Cake - English Food Idioms
● The Lion's Share - English Animal Idioms
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Person
Anneke Vanmarcke Forzani is the President and Founder of Language Lizard (https://www.LanguageLizard.com), which provides multicultural resources in over 50 languages to schools, libraries, and literacy organizations. She has presented workshops about using multicultural resources in diverse classrooms at educational conferences. She also writes about multicultural issues online and manages https://blog.LanguageLizard.com - Supporting Multicultural Classrooms & Bilingual Families. Anneke speaks Dutch, French, and Japanese. She is the author of the forthcoming bilingual children's book, Happy After All.
