Illustrated Everyday Idioms with Stories, Book 2 Perfect Paperback – January 1, 2003

This is a terrific idiom book for ESL learners. I have been a volunteer ESL tutor for 8 years, and I am using this book now. The idioms are extremely useful, Americanized phrases -- not "silly" idioms like "piece of cake" or "beat a dead horse." Rather, they are phrasal verbs and phrasal idioms such as "might as well," "look over," "stay put," "under the weather," and "fed up with." Each chapter contains 10 idioms, and each idiom is well defined, with examples. There is a practice exercise (multiple choice) for the student, a dialogue practice and a story that contains all the idioms in every chapter. A teacher or creative tutor can easily create his own exercises as well, for additional student practice. I don't like Book 1 in this series as well. It doesn't seem as well developed. But this book, Book 2, is very useful and enjoyable for students.

This "Everyday Idioms" series is great for self-study at an intermediate level. The books include not idioms specifically, but chunks such as idioms, phrasal verbs, expressions, etc. It offers chunks, gives a couple of short, easy examples followed by little practice dialogues and exercises and finally a story. Easy on the eye and fun to use. In Series 2 there are more activities thank in Series 1 (which I like) and chunks are no longer sorted alphabetically but somewhat randomized, which makes it more fun.

This book is amazing!Very easy to understand and teach the idioms to my students (I also bought the Cd's). It was very difficult to find this collection out there and I finally found it at Amazon!I am pretty happy with this purchase and impressed with Amazon fantastic service. The best and the fastest shipping ever!Thanks Amazon!!

Although many are the idioms books with a huge number of idioms, this book encountered me with the most common idioms. In addition, the method of teaching is unique. You see funny pictures about any idiom, active practices, and a story about each lesson. I highly recommend this book to people who want to improve their English and also, whom want to participate in Toefl exam.

I just received this book and after reading it, give my recommendation. In each lesson contains a list of target idioms, explaination, examples, a practice exercise, and a story using the targeted idioms. The idioms are commonly used in conversations. Eventhough I haven't had the opportunity to use the book yet, experience has it that it will be very practical and help TOFL students improve their english.

Very useful book sent in the condition stated, new.

Makes me easier to understand in reading the original meaning. When writing articles to be more vivid. This book is great!

Great for ESL students!