This bundle includes 24 themed idiom activity packs, each created for adult ESL students. The packs cover a wide range of themes from advice to winter and are perfect for ESL, ELL, ESOL, and ELD classes working with figurative language or vocabulary for fluency.

Idioms pop up constantly in everyday English, and your students need practice recognizing and using them in real situations. Because each pack is built around a topic your students already talk about, from family and money to shopping and weather, they'll be learning idioms they can start using right away.

Each activity pack includes the following components:

✅ Definitions Handout — a clear reference sheet, ready to use as an introduction or a study tool students can keep.

✅ Define Them Worksheet — students draw on what they already know (or think they know) to define the idioms before formal instruction, making a useful pre-assessment or a confidence check afterward.

✅ True or False Worksheet — students read statements about the idioms and decide whether they hold up, which pushes them past simple recall into real comprehension.

✅ Matching Worksheet — students pair idioms to their meanings, with differentiation included so you can meet students where they are.

✅ Multiple-Choice & Fill-in-the-Blank Worksheets — two versions of the same context-clue activity: one with answer choices, one without. Use the one that fits, or use both at different points in the unit.

✅ Personal Response Worksheets — questions that invite students to connect the idioms to their own experiences and opinions, moving the language from the page into something that belongs to them.

✅ Dialogue Starters — ready-to-use mini-conversations built around the idioms, for use as-is or as a jumping-off point for students to write and perform their own exchanges. (The Halloween pack does not have dialogue starters.)

✅ Matching Card Activities — a hands-on option that gets students up and working with the idioms in a more interactive format.

✅ "I Have...Who Has...?" Game — a whole-class reviewing game that keeps everyone listening and responding. It works at any level.