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Advice Idioms Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, 5th graders explore idiomatic expressions and their meanings. Students complete twelve questions where they determine the meanings of an expression.
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Idioms Beginning With K
In this idioms worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about the meaning of idioms beginning with K.
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Food Idioms
In this idioms worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about the meanings of idioms with food names.
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Idioms Beginning With S
For this idioms worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about the meanings of idioms beginning with S.
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Idioms Beginning With U
In this idioms learning exercise, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about the meaning of idioms beginning with letter U.
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Idioms Beginning With R
In this idioms activity, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about the meaning of idioms beginning with R.
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Idioms – D
In this idioms instructional activity, 7th graders read 8 idioms and their meanings and then respond to 8 fill in the blank and short answer questions regarding the idioms.
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Knowledge of Idioms
What is an idiom, and why is it necessary that we know and understand them? This brief PowerPoint helps answer these questions by looking at examples and offering a strategy for reading new text that might contain an idiom. The final...
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Adjectives and Alliteration
Whether it's in a tiny town or a fabulous feast, alliteration makes what you're saying more interesting! Practice figurative language with a activity that prompts class members to replace the adjective to make an alliterative phrase.
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Literary Terms
Seriously, 93 slides of literary terms? Yes, and well worth the time, although perhaps not all at once. The beauty here is in the concise, easy-to-understand definitions for such well-known terms as imagery and personification, as well...
Think Map
Shakespearean Idioms
How do you react if you're "hot-blooded?" What happens when you engage in a "wild  goose chase?" And what are "salad days?" Use this worksheet and the online Visual Thesaurus to answer these questions and more. Based on Shakespearean...
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Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech
Students create pieces of writing about a creature they have created. They examine the parts of speech and how they are used in their writing to see how they can write more specifically.
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Expressions With Break
In this expressions worksheet, learners complete an 8 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about the meaning of expressions with "break".
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Expressions With Take
For this phrasal verbs worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about the meaning of verbs with "take".
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Idiom Quizzes - G
In this online interactive figurative language worksheet, learners answer 30 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms. Students may check their answers immediately.
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Idiom Quizzes - Body
In this online interactive figurative language worksheet, students answer 20 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms. Students may check their answers immediately.
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Idioms
In this idioms practice worksheet, students examine 9 idioms and their meanings. Students then use 6 of the idioms to give advice in 6 scenarios.
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Sayings Quiz: Mixed 1
In this English sayings worksheet, learners complete a ten question multiple choice online interactive quiz about the meaning of common sayings. Example: A bad penny always turns up.
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Prediction Idioms Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, students explore idiomatic expressions. Students determine meanings of idioms through four matching and eight multiple choice questions.
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Idiom Quizzes- Leg/Foot
In this interactive word meanings worksheet, students explore idiomatic expressions. Students choose the correct expression to complete each of the eleven sentences.
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Simile and Metaphor (English III Reading)
The key idea in this interactive exercise designed for high schoolers is that figurative language, especially similes, and metaphors, add layers of meaning to a text. Users examine examples from speeches, ads, movie dialogue, and poems,...
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Figuratively Writing...It's for the Birds!
Students identify and use literary devices such as personification, idioms, hyperbole, and metaphors. They identify one literary device and illustrate the meaning. They write a letter using correct letter format and incorporates literary...
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Semantics
Use this PowerPoint in your college linguistics, English, psychology, or communications studies course. Not flashy, this presentation is still full of high-level concepts and vocabulary regarding semantics and verbal ambiguities, irony...
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Understanding King's Use of Metaphors in the
One of the most famous and well-crafted speeches of all time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, consists of rich metaphors and rhetorical language. Using a provided graphic organizer, students analyze five quotes...