Another great review for 'Work it Out with Business Idioms'

After a great review from Teflgeek last week, another blogger (Pete at eltplanning.com) has been kind enough to share their thoughts on our latest teaching resource. What we’re really pleased about is that Pete picks up on the way our author David Bohlke has structured the resource.

The topic serves as the hook for idioms here, rather than structure/form of the idioms. What I mean is, in books like Watcyn-Jones (2002 – admittedly not business English focused) you’d get idioms arranged in ways like

- idioms including ‘have’

- adjective + noun combinations

- describing things

- idioms using ‘pull’, ‘put’ and ‘turn’

This usually meant they were introduced in isolation because it was hard to throw them together into a cohesive text or dialogue. Bohlke takes a better approach, starting with a topic which allows possible target phrases to emerge a bit more naturally.

We’re looking forward to hearing how the resource works for Pete’s learners.

You can read Pete’s full review at eltplanning.com, and of course you should follow his blog for the latest in his growing collection of teaching tips, reviews, and reflections.