English Idioms: Describing Love
ESL Lesson PlansEnglish Idioms: Describing Love

English Idioms: Describing Love

This ESL lesson plan on idioms describing love is designed for adult learners at the B1 level, focusing on speaking and reading skills. In this 45-minute individual lesson, students will explore various idioms about love through a structured series of exercises. The lesson includes vocabulary ordering, reading comprehension with a love story, idiom-definition matching, dialogue completion, and personal reflection questions.

Skills

  • Has a good range of vocabulary related to familiar topics and everyday situations.
  • Can express and respond to feelings such as surprise, happiness, sadness, interest and indifference.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Look at these words and rearrange them to form love-related idioms. Have you heard of any of them?

1
in
head
over
Falling
love
heels
2
made
A
heaven
in
match
3
To
someone
have
crush
a
on
4
love
Puppy
5
Get
hitched
6
Be
the
on
rocks
7
love
sight
at
first
in
Fall
2

Read the Hollywood story about Ryan and Taylor. Can you predict the meaning of the idioms?

3

Now, match these idioms from the text to their definitions.

4

Can you fill in the blanks?

5

Answer the following questions.

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