Idiomatic Expressions for Part 1

B2 · Upper-intermediate57 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: drop one or two natural idioms into Part 1 answers - enough to lift Lexical Resource without ever sounding rehearsed.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Idioms that don't sound learned

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Using Idioms Naturally

    Read a 202-word text about Using Idioms Naturally

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Useful Part 1 Idioms

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Completing Idiomatic Expressions

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Using Idioms Correctly

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Idiom Practice

    Role-play: Practice incorporating idioms naturally into Part 1 answers (3 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your idiom mission

    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.

right up my alleyonce in a blue moona creature of habitat the drop of a haton the fencea mixed bag

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