Teaching idioms, 3 activities.

Activity 1 :

We give the Ss 4 phrases with the idioms we want  to teach them  ask them if they have understood the meaning of the idoms . If they haven't understood the meaning, then we give them the explanations .

1.If you play your cards right,you can get whatever  you want .

2.The problems that you see here are just the tip of the iceberg.

3.I do not think you have the cheek to play that joke on her,she do enot enjoy jokes.

4.We won the match  fair and square .
5.The young man is rather green and does not have enough experience to drive the machinery.

Activity 2:

We give the Ss small sheets of paper containg two columns.On the first column they can read the first part of the sentence and on the second column the secondd part of the column. The idiom may be either in the first or in the second column .

She played her cards right	more problems are to come.
He is in his first year of teaching	I can say that he has the cheek.
This is the tip of the iceberg	They  weren' fair and square.
They swindled us;	and now she is the manager of the company.
By the way inwhich he behaved	thus we can all agree that he is green.

Activity 3 :

We ask the Ss to write 5 sentences with the idioms that they have learned .

                                                      Drăgulescu Violeta and Plennert Larisa