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ESL Lesson Plan: Common Idioms

Common Idioms

Lesson Overview

Do your advanced ESL students struggle with idioms? If so, this ESL idioms lesson plan is perfect. The lesson plan break down eight common idioms to ensure full comprehension before challenging students to use the idioms in a natural way. 

This ESL Idioms lesson plan provides excellent, structured exercises which make studying the tricky topic of…

Do your advanced ESL students struggle with idioms? If so, this ESL idioms lesson plan is perfect. The lesson plan break down eight common idioms to ensure full comprehension before challenging students to use the idioms in a natural way. 

This ESL Idioms lesson plan provides excellent, structured exercises which make studying the tricky topic of idioms a breeze. The lesson plan encourages students to learn definitions before using them in practice through various tasks because as we all know - practice makes perfect. 

This following format is followed in this awesome Idioms worksheet: 

Activity Layout

  1. Create the idioms. 
  2. Examples and definitions. 
  3. Sentence completion. 
  4. Dialogues. 
  5. Questions. 
  6. Listening Task.

Homework

  1. Writing task. 

All lessons have an accompanying TV PDF document which provides the answers. The exercises have been designed to ensure full comprehension of the idioms while ensuring that students have fun, and learn in a natural manner. 

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