Lesson Plan
Idiom Pictionary and Charades
Idioms can be a pain in the neck to understand! Help your students become acquainted with many of the English language's funny and confusing idioms in this lesson that has them using their creativity to act out or illustrate idioms.
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to identify and explain common idioms, and use them correctly in a sentence.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Inform your students that today they will learn about idioms.
- Tell them that idioms are phrases that have a figurative meaning different from the literal meaning. Idioms are cultural phrases used in all languages around the world; there are different idioms used in different languages and cultures. Idioms are often a fun and creative way to get your point across, both when speaking or writing. The ones in this lesson are English idioms.