Teaching idioms:
- be green
- fair and square
- have the cheek
- play one's cards right1. The students are given a set of pictures of things they already know (green, iceberg, square, cheek, cards):
2. The students listen to a short track about an environmentally conscious person (say, Al Gore) in which all the idioms we had planned to teach are used. For now we only ask them to place the pictures in the order they hear the words represented.
3. The students are given gapped idioms (the tip of the .........; fair and ............; have the .................; be .......; play one's ............... right) and they are asked to fill in with the pictures and to try to reconstruct the idioms with the missing word.
4. The students are asked to pair the idioms with their short definitions: act justly, a small part of something hidden, a friend to the environment, be rude, without any doubt.
5. The students are asked to write a sentence which should be funny, as long as possible and including as many idioms as they can use. The funniest one wins.
Adela Ardereanu
Very good coherent scenario! Excellent work!
RăspundețiȘtergereYou may want to make task 5 less ambitious - funny, long and with lots of idioms seems too much for my students. Yours are waaaayy better!
thank you for your feedback :)
RăspundețiȘtergereYou are right, task 5 is too ambitious, maybe even a bit confusing. I've worked only with rather low-level students, so this is just an ideal scenario, I suppose :)