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The main objectives of this advanced worksheet on idioms are to:
- learn and practise idioms in different situations;
- watch segments of films to understand expressions;
- talk about experiences and opinions.
Students explore idioms related to communication, preferences and difficult situations (e.g. chew the fat, in one’s element, grasp at straws). They watch short film clips, complete dialogues and texts with idioms and use expressions to discuss personal experiences, social topics and preferences. Students also create a synopsis for a film and play a fun game to review and reinforce the target idioms.
IDIOMS ON COMMUNICATION, RELATIONSHIPS AND BUSINESS
In the first activity of this advanced worksheet on idioms, students complete idioms about communication (e.g. chew the fat, speak volumes, take a rain check) and watch film segments to check their answers. They also watch more film clips and respond to situations using the idioms they explored. In the second activity, students complete film descriptions with the correct form of idioms (e.g. bad books, carry a torch, wet blanket) and create a film synopsis using the idioms. In the third activity, students match statements containing idioms (e.g. throw in the towel, grease the wheels) with follow-up questions. They then discuss the questions about work and success. In the next exercise, students complete idioms in dialogues using words represented in pictures (have the cheek). Then, they write new lines for the dialogues.
MORE IDIOMS ON PREFERENCES, SKILLS AND REACTIONS
In this part of this advanced worksheet on idioms, students match statements with their responses and underline idioms (e.g. for the life of me). They explain what the idioms mean. Next, students respond to comments using the idioms. In the next activity, they look at statements about preferences and match idioms with their synonyms (e.g. right up one’s street – perfect). They rewrite the sentences that are untrue for them using idioms. Then, students discuss ideas (e.g. fostering a dog, gardening) using the idioms and explain why some ideas don’t appeal to them. In the next task, students complete idioms (e.g. drop a bombshell, grasp at straws) and discuss social issues shown in photos (e.g. high cost of living). Finally, students play a Jeopardy game choosing topics (e.g. verbs 100) and completing tasks. The person who gets the most points wins.
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Deeply involving and inspiring stuff !
It made my C1 students dazed and confused at a sight of abundance of phrasal vebs and idioms in English.
Thanks for the clue how to cope with them. Ususal memorizing wouldn’t work.
More of that, please!
Thanks 🙂
Great lesson plans. Thanks for the good work, my C1 students loved it and it’s good practice for CAE exams.
Thanks, I’m glad your students liked it.
Very good class and students enjoyed learning new idioms, but it really would help to have the answers for slide 7. I asked the students what they thought comes next, but they really wanted to know what actually comes next.
Hi, thanks! The thing is that whatever comes next in each clip does not contain the idioms which students are asked to use. So I think students might feel dissapointed when shown the responses without the idioms.
I’ve used and enjoyed this lesson very much. However, I would have liked to have answers or suggestions on the Teacher’s version on the second part of the first exercise. Let me explain — there are 8 idioms in the first part of exercise 1, but in the second part, there are 10 situations. There are two situations specifically that don’t correspond to the idioms in the first part and video.
Just saying…
But otherwise, good fun and brings up lots of discussion about why and where and how come.
Thanks!
Thanks! We’ll take a closer look at the task again and see if we can improve it.
the lesson is developed wrongly from methodological point. Improve it, folks
Hi there! This is a worksheet with standalone activities, each of which introduces several idioms. Each set of idioms is then practised in the second/third part of the activity, and all of them are revised in the last activity. So this is not really a lesson plan but rather activities which you can use separately.