| LESSON OVERVIEW
The goal of this worksheet is to teach eight happy and sad idioms. There are 4 tasks all together in which your students will discover new idiomatic expressions and practise using them both in speech and in writing.
VOCABULARY
First, students read short dialogues and choose the correct word in each idiom for expressing happiness and sadness. For example, they have to decide whether it should be: over the star, moon, or sun. Thanks to these short dialogues, they will discover the meanings of idioms such as such as ‘be over the moon‘, ‘sb’s heart sank‘ or ‘go to pieces’.
SPEAKING
The speaking part of the worksheet starts with a short task in which students have to react to some situations using idioms from the previous exercise. Next, to practise and reinforce the idioms further, students get a few pictures. First, they need to say what idioms they represent and then write down 5 Wh-questions with the happy and sad idioms they’ve learnt. Finally, they work in pairs, and ask and answer the questions they’ve created.
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Thank you for the lesson, but this could improve a lot. There are no visuals in this e-lesson. It’s basically just text and that makes the lesson boring. I whish you would have more visuals in your e-lessons in general. Everylesson I checked so far needs visuals
Hi Nicole! Thanks for the feedback. We currently mainly use visuals for practical reasons, e.g. as speaking prompts. What we don’t do is, for example, illustrate each new idiom with a graphic representing it. I’m not saying you’re referring to that but I’ve seen such an approach around. All in all, we’re listening to user feedback and if the general consensus is that we need more visuals, we’ll consider doing that.
I agree with Nicole and share her wish – especially with this lesson visuals would make it a lot easier (and really fun!) to remember and retain certain idioms. e.g over the moon/under the weather.
Hi Hannah! Thanks for your comment! After some consideration, we modified one of the tasks by extending it and adding pics that might help students retain these commonly used idioms. We also updated the worksheets according to our new PDF template. Hope you like the changes!