Lexical Resource & Idioms

B2 · Upper-intermediate47 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: deploy Band 7+ idioms and collocations naturally across any topic — a small set mastered deeply, drilled in context and stress-tested live.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The idioms you actually own

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Building Band 7+ Vocabulary

    Read a 164-word text about Building Band 7+ Vocabulary

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Band 7+ Idioms and Collocations

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Idioms in Context

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match Collocations

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: weave, don't insert

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

at the end of the daybreak new groundfood for thoughta far cry fromplay it by earsee eye to eye

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