How to Teach Idioms

Teaching idioms to our students is not an easy task. Even for native speakers, idioms and collocations can be challenging to teach, since EFL/ESL students may not have that correspondent expression in their first languages.

And, as "we all are in the same boat", and "actions speak louder than words", I have selected a nice website where you find most of the idioms used in the English language: Idioms.com.

A tip I give is: pick one or two nice idioms to begin or finish your classes with, or you can even play a memory game with them, by writing the words on the board and erasing them right after. Just make sure you contextualize the expressions by applying them to videos, miming or songs, and don't forget to check meaning after that by asking students to roleplay a situation using the idioms, for example.