Color Idioms
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Color Idioms

This engaging idioms lesson plan is designed for ESL teens at the B1 level. This 60-minute group lesson focuses on developing speaking and reading skills through colour-related idioms. Students will discuss meanings, create examples, match sentence halves, complete a conversation with idioms, and engage in discussions.

Skills

  • Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words & signs from the context.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Read this phrase. What does the expression "black sheep" mean? Discuss it with your classmates.

She had different interests, and we thought of her as a black sheep in our family.
2

Read  the definitions and match them with the suitable idioms.

3

Connect these halves of sentences so that they make sense.

4

In pairs, read this conversation and fill in the gaps with the correct idiom. Then share your answers with the rest of the group.

5

Discuss these questions with your partner and share their answers with the rest of the group.

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