The 40 sleep idioms and sayings in this activity pack give your adult ESL students the language they need to talk about sleep without actually putting someone to sleep. The variety of worksheet and activity types ensures no one in your class will be drifting off to sleep.

With this, your students will learn 40 idioms and expressions that they might hear or want to use. They’ll be practicing and reviewing all 40 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 losing sleep over something has nothing to do with insomnia and that being fast asleep doesn’t mean going to sleep quickly. 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)

🟢 79 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.