Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Hats Off to You!
In the lesson, "Hats Off to You", younger students will learn about world occupations and costumes. Older students will be able to learn idioms about hats. The site features downloads and resources.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: English Idioms
This interactive site focuses on English idioms; it defines idioms, offers an extensive glossary of idioms, and provides practice understanding idioms.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Phrasal Verb and Idioms
An explanation of phrasal verbs used in idioms. Links to additional information are provided.
Scholastic
Scholastic: The Big Cheese and Other Idioms
Find out more about idioms through this informative resource. This site provides activities and ideas revolving around sharpening your knowledge of idioms.
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Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: The Arts and Crafts of Storytelling [Pdf]
In the Arts and Crafts of Storytelling, American folk heroes come to life, help students expand their vocabulary and increase knowledge of figurative language. Students identify figurative language like similes, idioms and hyperboles....
Other
Smart Words: Famous Idioms and Meaning
This is a list of the 50 most commonly used idioms and their meanings.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: L.4.5b: Recognize Meanings of Idioms, Adages, Proverbs
Links to 10 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.4.5b: Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.
Other
The Phrase Finder: Home Page
"A professional writers' resource from The Phrase Finder for generating ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, etc." Just type your word and the phrase finder will find a phrase to match it.
Other
The Phrase Finder: Home Page
"A professional writers' resource from The Phrase Finder for generating ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, etc." Just type your word and the phrase finder will find a phrase to match it. L.9-10.4c References, L.9-10.4d...
Starfall
Starfall: Introduction to Old Chinese Fables
This video is an introduction to six old Chinese fables.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Are Idioms?
After listening to More Parts by Tedd Arnold read aloud, intermediate school students distinguish between literal and figurative meaning by using a graphic organizer, playing an online game, and incorporating an idiom into their writing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: In Search of Rhyme and Reason
Students in sixth, seventh, or eighth grade language arts class will read The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Discussions and activities will focus on idioms as they are used in the English language.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Using Figurative Language to Shape Meaning and Style
The students will be able to identify different types of figurative language in a story and explain how the author uses figurative language to shape the meaning and style of the story.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs-two-part verbs that combine a verb with a preposition-are often difficult for English language learners to comprehend because they have peculiar meanings unfamiliar to non-native speakers of English. What does it mean, for...
Other
Isabel's Esl Site: Phrasal Verbs: Look or Look For?
A fun matching quiz for high intermediate or advanced ESL high school students.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The King's English: Prepositions
Part of H.W. Fowler's classic text on the use and misuse of the English language, "The King's English" (1908) section on prepositions focuses on their idiomatic nature. A comprehensive but a bit outdated manual, "The King's English"...
Quia
Quia: Idioms
Teacher-created matching squares game designed to help students learn 15 common English expressions, or idioms, that use face words, like "play it by ear" or "to be nosy."
Quia
Quia: Rags to Riches: Idioms From Context
In this interactive, "millionaire-style" game, students read passages with idioms in them. Then they will select the correct explanation for each idiom.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Understanding Idioms
This lesson focuses on idioms including illustrating the literal meanings and explaining the figurative meanings.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Topic Vocabulary Reference
Links to information and lists of English words and phrases by category. Includes information on the difference between a dictionary and thesaurus, synonyms and antonyms, confusing words, figures of speech, eponyms, euphemisms, sayings,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Idioms Resources
A twenty-three-part learning module including links to images and videos on various idioms.
TES Global
Blendspace: Idioms, Adages, Proverbs
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos to use while learning about idioms, adages, and proverbs.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Hot or Cold
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains 10 phrases that should have either the word hot or cold in it. The students should use the Activotes to vote if they think the missing word is hot or cold. Space is there for...