TEACHING LETTER WRITING AMONG STUDENTS USING IDIOMS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

The English language has thousands of idioms. Idioms are expressions in which the meaning of the whole expression has a different meaning from the meanings of the individual words. If you want to understand a language, you have to know what the idioms in that language mean. You have to figure out its "hidden" meaning, not the literal meaning. Many idioms are similar to expressions in other languages and can be easy for a learner to understand. Other idioms come from older phrases that have changed over time. “To hold one's horses” means to stop and wait patiently for someone or something. It comes from a rime when people rode horses and would have to hold their horses while waiting for someone or something.