Winter Idioms
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Winter Idioms

This B1–B2 ESL lesson for adult learners explores fun and useful winter idioms such as "break the ice, cold feet, chill out, and walking on thin ice," to help students expand their figurative language skills. Learners begin with a warm-up discussion to activate prior knowledge, then practice the idioms in contextual situations to understand and use the expressions accurately. The lesson moves into guided activities with plenty of practice, example sentences, and discussion tasks that encourage students to use idioms naturally in conversation. These varied exercises build both comprehension and confidence with seasonal idiomatic language.

Skills

  • Can understand and use common idiomatic expressions related to familiar topics, such as weather or seasons, in simple spoken interactions.
  • Can understand and use a range of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms appropriately in discussion, even if occasional inaccuracies occur.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Look at the images below. Each represents a wintery idiom. Can you guess what they might be?

2

Study this list of wintery idioms.

3

Read the dialogues. What do the idioms in bold mean?

4

Choose the word or phrase that doesn't belong.

5

Rephrase each sentence using one of the idioms on the list.

6

Around the world discussion!

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