For example,
Translate these sentences into mathematish
These could be adapted to suit each topic but overall should help students to understand how expressions are formed and therefore also to interpret them. This falls in line with Anne Watson's thinking that students should be taught to read algebraic sentences out loud to give them meaning.
UPDATE: 28/05/2013
For algebra specific translations, translating english to algebrese
When you take a real-world situation and translate it into math, you are actually 'expressing' it; hence the mathematical term 'expression'.
