This worksheet is an introduction to tea in Britain. I used 2 different sources from the BBC Learning English website to make it. The first section (listening and questions) uses the audio found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/r ...
This worksheet is an introduction to tea in Britain. I used 2 different sources from the BBC Learning English website to make it. The first section (listening and questions) uses the audio found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/r ...
Introducing '7 Idiom Activities to Get Your Students’ Creativity Flowing' - our third reference poster with 7 fresh and interesting ways to teach or review idioms. You can click the image below to view the full-size poster [HI-RES] for printing. ...
Not really an activity; I have made this one so students can get to know different expressions (in this case, using colors - I used "colors" as in American English). I always try to make them use these in class, so they can speak more naturally. And it ...
There are two pages in this activity: one of them is entirely in English, and the other has its exercise bit in Portuguese (I used it with beginners, so they weren't able to understand the exercise fully in English, that's why). They're exactly the sam ...
In this ppt presentation students have to choose the meaning of an idiom with a name of a colour in it from three possible variants. My students of pre-intermediate level found it great fun. It could be a good warmer or a time-saver activity. Enjoy it!
This worksheet is suitable for intermediate students. There's a role play that can be used as a warm-up. Students are encouraged to learn new vocabulary (slangs, phrasal verbs, etc.) in context. I hope you like this set of exercises. Please feel free t ...
The following activity is designed for students of upper-Intermediate and Advanced students. In the first part of the activity the students have to listen carefully in order to answer the 10 questions about the episode, in the second part the students ...
The following activity is designed for students of upper-Intermediate and Advanced level. It is suggested to play the video without subtitles.The worksheet is divided in two parts, in the first one the students have to listen carefully in order to answ ...
This power point presentation includes twenty slides illustrating some idioms like "big cheese", "piece of cake", "to be in the soup", "one smart cookie" etc. I use it with my students to extend their vocabulary and have some fun too :-) Hope you will ...
Over a hundred printable Taboo Game cards with template for beginner and intermediate students. The objective of the game is for a player to have his/her partner(s) guess the word on his/her card without using the word itself or five additional words l ...
This upload includes a worksheet of prelistening activities and a gap fill for students to complete while listening to the song. Prelistening worksheet: Section A: students discuss the 4 photos from the Los Angeles, CA area. Section B: students brainst ...
Hello, this is another activity dealing with phonetics symbols, this time it is a text about idioms. The purpose of the task is to choose the correct sound of some words in the text; it's something similar to the Cambridge Certificications tasks called ...
![Song Worksheet: Electrical Storm by U2 [Gap-fill and Vocabulary]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-11/thumbs/1352194758_electrical-storm-0.png)
Students listen to the song 'Electrical Storm' by U2, completing a gap-fill exercise. Song will most likely need to be replayed at least one extra time. Following this, there are a few questions drawing vocabulary items from the lyrics including a vo ...
Many EFL students find idioms hard to be understood, that's why they avoid using idioms while they speak English. They always find some problems in using the idioms in sentences properly. The best way to help the students is by encouraging them to pr ...
This is a very nice song that can be used to teach the use of different expressions with the meaning "being the same". It can be used in the "Frienship and relationships" unit, your adult students will love this old-fashioned song because it's really e ...
A great song to use for PAST TENSE practise, PHRASAL VERBS, TIME IDIOMS and CONTRACTIONSI haven’t included the full lyrics this time … do some of the work yourself with the students! This way you may realize some of the listening difficult ...
![Song Worksheet: Everything At Once by Lenka [Idioms]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-12/thumbs/1354650013_everything-at-once-lenka-0.png)
This is a great song to practise idioms such as "as sweet as sugar", "as old as time" etc. First give them to the students without the examples from the table at the bottom and ask them to fill in the gaps. Then play the song and ask them to check if t ...
This worksheet is based on the ninth episode of season 6 of Friends (which is my favorite Friends episode!) and it includes spotting idioms and phrases, filling in the blanks and choosing the correct word type of exercise. It also suggests a small comp ...
This worksheet is based on the 8th episode of season 2 of Modern Family and it includes spotting idioms and phrases, filling in the blanks and a space for students' discussion. It also suggests a small composition in the end: a dialogue using some of t ...
A simple, maybe fun, activity for an intermediate level Valentine's Day lesson or for any other lesson-topic about love. Contains a few warmer questions about love and a chart where you can go through each idiom and discuss and write down the translati ...