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Education.com: L.4.5.b Worksheets: Recognize Meanings of Idioms, Adages, Proverbs

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 10 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.5.B: Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.
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University of Manchester

Children's University of Manchester: Words: Idioms Game

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Colorful quiz asks students to choose the correct meanings of popular idioms.
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Using Idioms Is a Piece of Cake [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teaching about idioms can be great fun. Why are idioms important? Idioms are important so that students can understand what everyone is saying! Idioms are a part of the figurative language. Using the Literal language (as in saying things...
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The Idiom Connection

For Students 9th - 10th
Users can search this list of idioms and their explanations either alphabetically or by subject matter, such as Food Idioms, Business Idioms, or Animal Idioms. There are also quizzes on each category of idiom so students can test their...
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Quia

Quia: Idioms

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
In this interactive game, students match idioms with their definitions.
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Quia

Quia: Idioms

For Students 9th - 10th
Teacher-created matching squares game designed to help students learn 15 common English expressions, or idioms, that use face words, like "play it by ear" or "to be nosy."
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Dave's ESL Cafe

Phrasal Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th
Phrasal verbs-two-part verbs that combine a verb with a preposition-are often difficult for English language learners to comprehend because they have peculiar meanings unfamiliar to non-native speakers of English. What does it mean, for...
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Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Many things.org: Words and Their Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen and read along to several articles about common idioms, proverbs, adages, and interesting words to enhance English learning students' vocabulary.
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The Phrase Finder: Meanings and Origins of Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The free section of this site provides the meanings and origins of thousands of quotations, euphemisms, popular fallacies and misheard song lyrics. A British site, some of the expressions are not familiar to most Americans.
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Using english.com: English Grammar Quizzes & Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice treasure trove of printable grammar worksheets organized by proficiency level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Emphasis is on parts of speech but you'll also find some that focus on common spelling issues and vocabulary...
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English Club

English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Topic Vocabulary Reference

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Links to information and lists of English words and phrases by category. Includes information on the difference between a dictionary and thesaurus, synonyms and antonyms, confusing words, figures of speech, eponyms, euphemisms, sayings,...
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BBC

Bbc World Service: Learning English Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
The Grammar and Vocabulary area of the BBC World Service site has a section on common grammar problems and a section on idioms and expressions. There are also links to pages that provide English language learning opportunities that...
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Esl Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of four video lessons for English language learners, focusing on listening, speaking, and pronunciation in English. The lessons focus on producing accurate sounds, listening to rapidly-spoken English, and understanding idioms...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Figurative Language Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students understand figurative language.
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The Phrase Finder: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"A professional writers' resource from The Phrase Finder for generating ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, etc." Just type your word and the phrase finder will find a phrase to match it. L.9-10.4c References, L.9-10.4d...

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