Teaching idioms within themes helps your adult ESL students make sense of them. Vacation idioms add color to everyday conversations about how they spend their holidays and vacations. Is the scenic route labeled on the map? What kind of beverages will satisfy a thirst for adventure? And just what is a staycation? Adult students love learning new idioms, so why not give them the figurative language they need to talk about vacations?

With this, your students will learn 30 idioms and expressions that they might hear or want to use. They’ll be practicing and reviewing all 30 with activities that make the terms memorable. These pages will be the ones that go home with them, not get tossed in the trash on their way out at the end of class.

Idioms are the kind of everyday English that fluent speakers use without thinking twice but present a roadblock to people learning English. That’s why your students need to understand that a tourist trap doesn’t have bars on it. Once they get that, they can start having fun making figurative language part of their daily communication.  

WHAT'S INSIDE THIS PDF:

✅ definitions handout

✅ define them worksheet

✅ true or false worksheet

✅ matching worksheet

✅ multiple-choice & fill-in-the-blank worksheets

✅ personal response worksheets

✅ dialogue starters

✅ matching card activities

✅ "I Have...Who Has...?" game

✅ answer keys (of course)

🟢 71 pages 🟢

I designed this for your adult ESL students. It’s what I always wished I’d had when students requested/demanded/begged for idioms.

This is included in my Idiom Activities Pack Bundle.