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Idiomatic expressions - LIVE -
These worksheets include a set of idioms with the word "live" + illustrations, an activity to match those idioms to their meanings and the teacher�s key. Hope you like it!!! :) I�ve already uploaded other similar worksheets to teach my students idioms. You can find them here: http://www.eslprin tables.com/printable .asp?id=325865#theto p http:/...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS - (3 pages) with 13 Cool sentences to improve your Fluency & pronunciation & 8 activities
This is a very good worksheet to improve the fluency and pronunciation of your students. It contains 13 common sentences and the students will practice reading & writing & comprehension and will do 8 activities related to these expressions. Hope it is useful. Thanks a lot for your motivating comments.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
IDIOMS
Ask your stdents to find the meanings of the idioms.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card

 


 
Weather Idioms.
A paper of illustrated idiomatic expression related to weather.Hope it is useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
Idioms of Health and Illness
A small worksheet on idioms about health and illness. There is also a quiz section on the origins of the expressions which can be used as a team quiz activity although I have used some of them in previous worksheets. I therefore use this as a way to revise some of my previous lessons. Answers are provided. If you spot any mistakes, please let me kn...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
GAP FILLING - SENTENCES - FCE & CAE - with a key
enjoy
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
idiom /metaphor:bodies(han d and foot)
Idioms using with hand,foot.All the worksheets in here come in handy(look and find what it means if you don�t know)I couldn�t find illustration for each one.Just them.Enjoy it.(I wrote the answers next to them)
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
Idiom Cards 2
You can use them either as cards for a board game, one side being the image and the other the definition, or as a matching exercise in which case you cut them in two.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card

 


 
Animal idioms
Here are some animal-related phrases to enrich you vocabulary
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
body parts idioms 2
a second worksheet of body parts idioms enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
Similes and Idioms
this is a useful worksheet about similes and idioms containing four interesting activities. I hope you will like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
food idioms
a worksheet consisting of three exercises which aims at teaching/revising food idioms. It can be used with elementary and pre-intermediate students as well as with students with special educational needs. A key is included. I hope you find it useful. The last exercise can be used as a speaking activity as well.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-14
Type: worksheet

 


 
English Idioms - A
English Idioms Cards
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: flash-card

 


 
Family Idioms
Here are some very interesting idioms. Hope you like it! ;)
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
--*--*--*-- Idioms 03! --*-- Animals --*-- Definitions + Exercise --*-- BW Included --*--*--*-- FULLY EDITABLE WITH KEY!
Simple exercise: students match the idioms to their definitions and then complete the sentences. The definitions and the sentences were taken from Cambridge Dictionary (online). Idioms: A little bird told me ~*~ Be like a red rag to a bull ~*~ Flog a dead horse ~*~ (as) Blind as a bat ~*~ A pig in a poke ~*~ The lion�s share.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet

 

 


Idioms 2 (advanced)
Part 2 of Idioms practice for upper to advanced. I use it with my in-company adult one-one classes.
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Idioms 3 (advanced)
Part 3 of Idiomatic Expressions. Use it as a time filler or put all the parts together to present it as a class and then have your students create examples or dramatize the expressions. I use it with one-one adult students and it always serves as a time filler.
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Idiomatic Expressions
Some idiomatic expressions (ppt).
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Idioms of love
Love is in the air
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Idiom Challenge
Enjoyable activity to engage your students in learning idioms in daily life.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Idioms
Fun activity to practice idioms
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Advanced Education Idioms
This is a reupload because I didn�t realize the other one had a copyrighted image.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Food idioms
Idiom presentation with animation for advanced students. Would work with B1+, you can let them try to guess the idiom first if you like, the definition doesn�t pop up till you click it.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Idioms with history
Some sad history so not for kids! Animated to help them guess the answers :)
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


food idioms
A PowerPoint presentation that aims at revising food idioms. In slides 2-4 students have to connect fruits/vegetables/fo od with the correct phrase by clicking on them. In slides 5-9 students have to choose the correct meaning for each phrase by clicking on the correct box. I hope you find it useful!
Level: elementary
Age: 11-14
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Let�s play with the hours
This PDF is to play with your students showing different ways to say the hour
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Song "Unlonely" by Jason Mraz
This ppp includes a vocabulary activity to do before watching the video and listening to the song, and an after-listening activity. Your students can learn vocabulary, practice pronunciation with rhymes and learn idioms.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Baby Idioms

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Idioms
eight common idioms and their meaning. An idiom is presented with multiple choice options for its possible meaning.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Hyperboles
I made this PPT for my class to help explain the meaning of Hyperbole�s and to help them contrast literal and figurative language. Fun and engaging! I had to separate it into 3 parts due to the upload restriction of 3MB per file. This is part A
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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