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ESL Lesson Plan: Idioms: New Year

Idioms: New Year

Lesson Overview

Is there a better way to close out the year than studying idioms? We created this New Year’s idioms lesson plan to ensure that your ESL students fall in love with studying idioms and you fall in love with teaching them!

This New Year’s Idioms lesson plan provides excellent, structured exercises which make studying the tricky topic of idioms a…

Is there a better way to close out the year than studying idioms? We created this New Year’s idioms lesson plan to ensure that your ESL students fall in love with studying idioms and you fall in love with teaching them!

This New Year’s 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 New Year’s Idioms worksheet: 

Activity Layout

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

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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