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Title
All About 'Set'
Target Structure
Expressions using 'Set'
Level
Intermediate
Time
30+ minutes
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Description
This worksheet looks at six common expressions based around the word 'set'.

Language covered includes:
  • set foot in
  • set eyes on
  • set something up
  • set off

The lesson has an opening quiz, consolidation questions, a caption matching quiz and discussion questions.

It's a great way to help your students learn some fun, natural English!

 


 

Title
Idiom Builder: Sleep
Target Structure
Idioms, Vocabulary, Discussion
Level
Intermediate +
Time
45 (depending on discussion) minutes
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Description
This worksheet looks at some common expressions connected to sleeping.

Language studied includes:

  • sleep like a log
  • catch forty winks
  • sleep rough
  • lose sleep over something
  • a night owl
  • sleep on something
There is an opening quiz, followed by matching exercises, rewriting and lots of discussion.

This worksheet is written for intermediate level students and above.

 


 

Title
All About 'Put'
Target Structure
Idioms, Vocabulary
Level
Intermediate +
Time
45 minutes
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Description
Build your students' vocabulary and have fun with this worksheet!

The lesson is based around expressions using 'put'.

Your students will study

- put up with something
- put something behind you
- to put it bluntly
- put [an idea] forward
- put you off something

There is a gap-fill exercise, followed by lots of follow-up practice and discussion questions at the end.

This worksheet is written for intermediate-level classes.

 


 

Title
All About 'Break'
Target Structure
Expressions using 'Break'
Level
Intermediate+
Time
45 minutes
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Description
This worksheet looks at some common expressions using the word 'break'.

Language studied includes:

* break a record
* break down (for cars etc.)
* break the news
* break even
* break someone's heart

Following the warm-up, there is a gap-fill prediction exercise, with practice exercises and discussion.

This worksheet is written for intermediate-level students

 


 

Title
Will you let go!
Target Structure
Idiom and Phrasal Verb Building
Level
Intermediate and above
Time
45 minutes
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Description
If you are looking to build your students' knowledge of phrasal verbs and idioms, this set would be a good place to start!

Taking 'let' as the theme, the following expressions are covered:

* let [yourself] go
* let me see
* let [someone] in
* let [someone] down
* let [someone] off

Following the warm-up, there is a gap-fill prediction exercise, with practice exercises and discussion.

This worksheet is written for intermediate-level students and above.


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