Idioms are an important part of language learning and are something that students often struggle with. The idiom worksheets in this section are some of the ways teachers have found to address this topic with learners of various levels and ages. This idioms worksheet, for example, includes stories, pictures and a comprehension question for many common idioms. You could use this with any level but they were created with pre-intermediate and intermediate classes in mind. The file is a large packet of idiom worksheets; you can choose to do just one or two at a time and this might be a better approach. There are 168 worksheets available in this section so you can also find material on other idioms and for more advanced learners.
While many teachers leave idioms for advanced learners, you can start practicing idioms with your students much earlier. Intermediate and even some beginner classes will be able to benefit from the introduction of simple idioms. Just like learning new vocabulary, students need to understand the meaning of idioms, complete pronunciation practice exercises, and have sufficient practice using them in order to commit them to memory and feel comfortable using them.
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This is an activity to practice idioms, in a basic way. All the expressions are related to sadness. I adapted this from a book called "English Idioms in Use", by Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'De ...
A quick matching activity for intermediate/upper intermediate students of all ages. Can be followed by a writing activity where students are required to use one or more of the idioms (correctly) i ...
Power point version of the Adobe soccer expressions quiz as written by Alamrani. This version avoids reloading the quiz if a wrong answer is submitted. This allows the quiz to be completed i ...
Worsheet once used in a summer course with intermediate students. The class is based on relationships using one episode from the "Sex & the City". There are lots of idioms in this lesson refer ...
This presentation contains idioms of the English language. I tried to think about the ones I myself as a native English speaker use, rather than the more traditional ones taught in ESL textbooks t ...
This is a rich powerpoint containing plenty of idioms as well as exercises following. So many idioms are given with suitable pictures which are really enjoying. It is a bit long powerpoint but you ...
This powerpoint is only based on exercises which include body part idioms.It has different types of exercises and students try to find the most suitable answers.Students either complete the missin ...
This powerpoint contains plenty of idioms which are freqently used in spoken language.And the pictures which are choosen properly grab students' attention easily. I've used it in the class and I c ...
This is an activity to introduce students to some idiomatic expressions in English that can be considered weird by non-native English speakers. I suggest to use it as an extracurricular activity t ...
In this powerpoint, lots of body part idioms which are commonly used in daily life are given through interesting and enjoyable pictures.Also it draws students' attention easily.I hope you will lik ...
This PowerPoint presentation can be used for teachers of business English. For my lessons I like to add one or two of the slides as a part of the lesson. These were taken from a business idiom wor ...
I started water discussions with my intermediate students and in the middle of the class we had a funny task about water idioms. Water is the essential part of our life. And what's more now they k ...
10 body idioms with pictures which can be used for your pre-intermediate or intermediate class. And also a revision exercise with 7 of them with answers. Includes: to be pain in the neck, to rack ...
This is a PPT of 6 slides about spring and flowers. On the first slide there is a link of a song on YouTube. It´s called "I like the flowers...." . On the next slide there is a cloze text a ...
This is the activity I used for my business English students. I used a part of the third episode of the 3d season. You can find this part on youtube (it starts 11.33) https://www.youtube.com/watc ...
This worksheet contains some idioms with the verb "start" such as "to start off on the wrong foot" etc. as well as some synonyms of this verb such as "burst out". There are two activities included ...
A simple ppt with illustrations to famous idioms that have weather words, but their meaning is not necessarily related to weather:) There´s a suitable listening to provide the context and ex ...
200 English proverbs, sayings, idioms, conversational clichés and phrases and their reflections in Ukrainian and Hungarian. Here we can see the difference between the translations and how t ...
There are two parts of the worksheet. In the first part the students should find out the right matches to the idioms with horse. In the second part they have to use the idioms in the sentences. T ...
Discussion questions about joy! There are nine of them, as well as an idiom, and the dictionary definition of joy. This is something you might want to use when talking about emotions, success, rel ...
You can use this ppt while teaching space vocabulary / idioms. The examples come first so you can encourage students to guess or come up with possible interpretations. You can ask students to give ...
This is a nice worksheet on food idioms. How can you compare people with food? Find out yourself and share the secrets with your ss. The worksheet contains a matching activity and pictures.
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Idioms are an important part of language learning and are something that students often struggle with. The idiom worksheets in this section are some of the ways teachers have found to address this topic with learners of various levels and ages. This idioms worksheet, for example, includes stories, pictures and a comprehension question for many common idioms. You could use this with any level but they were created with pre-intermediate and intermediate classes in mind. The file is a large packet of idiom worksheets; you can choose to do just one or two at a time and this might be a better approach. There are 168 worksheets available in this section so you can also find material on other idioms and for more advanced learners.
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