With Flying Colors - English Color Idioms (Haitian Creole-English)

“The Language Lizard Idiom books are ... a teacher’s dream come true!… #1 pick for teachers everywhere. … readers will have a whale of a time discovering new phrases and expressions, while turning pages with laughter and joy.” - Tara Brown, ESL teacher

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

Anneke Forzani is the President and Founder of Language Lizard (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 the blog Supporting Multicultural Classrooms & Bilingual Families at blog.languagelizard.com. Anneke speaks Dutch, French, and Japanese, and is the author of Building Bridges with Bilingual Books and Multicultural Resources.

Dmitry Fedorov is a professional artist and illustrator living in the Ukraine. He creates both digital concept art as well as illustrations using traditional instruments such as pencils, markers, soft pastel, charcoal, watercolor and oil paint.