Instructions: Interpret these phrases into a common saying or idiom
1. If a large, solid hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such creature
The common saying is: Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
2. Each mass of vapory collection suspended in the firmament has an interior decoration of metallic hue
The common saying is: every cloud has a silver lining
3. It is not advantageous to place the sum total of your barnyard collections into the same wicker receptacle
The common saying is: Do not put all your eggs in one basket
4. The flying phenomena of the etheric kingdom of a kindred mind come into association gregariously
The common saying is: Birds of a feather flock together
5. Deviation from the ordinary or common routing of existence is that which gives zest to man's cycle of existence
The common saying is: Variety is the spice of life
What strategies did you use to decipher the sentences? If you have material that ELLs need to understand, how can you facilitate their understanding through circumlocution?
To decipher the sentences, I first tried to acknowledge and understand the literal meaning of the sentences and thereafter trying to understand the idiomatic meaning, which encompasses the meaning of the general sentence and expression in an extensive sense. Having material that ELLs need to understand, there are different ways in which I can facilitate their understanding through circumlocution. This includes using vocabulary that I already know, the use of sounds, actions or gestures, and also trying to think of other ways of communicating or conveying the message.
Classroom discourse may vary from teacher to teacher and content area to content area. Describe typical discourse in your classroom. How can you help your ELLs understand the discourse patterns you have established in your classroom?
The typical discourse in my classroom is the initiation, response and evaluation one. It includes asking questions of which the solutions are already known so as to obtain information from the students....
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