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Spring Idioms Worksheet

Spring idioms for elementary and pre intermediate level

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Spring Idioms Worksheet

Spring idioms for elementary and pre intermediate level

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Paula Gonzalez
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Put all your A spring in


Idiom cards:

Spring into
Under the sun eggs in one someone’s
action
basket step

The grass
Idiom cards:

Be no spring is (always) A happy


A good egg
chicken greener on the bunny
other side

to depend completely
Definition cards:

used for emphasizing on just one idea, plan, used for saying used for saying that
that something or person so that someone looks as if something is done
includes a very wide you have no other they are happy and quickly and with
range of things possibilities if things full of energy energy or force
go wrong
Definition cards:

life seems better


somewhere else, someone who is
a good or reliable
to be rather old or other people’s satisfied with a
person
situations seem better situation
than your own
TEACHING IDEAS: Three quick activities to use in class
MATCHING PAIRS:
1. Shuffle the idiom and definition cards and hand them out
so that each student has one card.
2. Students must find their matching partner. CHARADES:
3. Ask students in their matching pairs to give an example of 1. Pre-teach idioms and their definitions.
their idiom before sitting down. 2. Cut up and put the idioms face down on the table.
3. Ask a student to pick one and act it out. Other students
must guess the idiom for a point.
DESCRIPTIONS: 4. Repeat the activity in small groups.
1. Pre-teach idioms and their definitions. 5. Once guessed, encourage students to use the idiom in
2. In pairs, one student must describe the meaning of the an example.
idiom, using the definition cards as prompts where necessary.
3. Their partner must guess that idiom correctly to receive
the card.

TEACHING HINTS AND TIPS


Ask students to look up unknown definitions in pairs on www.macmillandictionary.com

Ask students to cut up and stick the idioms and their meanings in their exercise books.

Ask students to colour the idiom and its meaning the same colour.

Do a follow-up activity using the above as a warmer in the next lesson to check students remember.

Idioms definitions provided by


www.macmillandictionary .com
©2015 Macmillan Education

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