TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Hang in there!

Activity Type Introduction

Vocabulary Game: gap- In this idioms board game, students practice common idioms by
fill (group work) using them to complete sentences.

Procedure
Focus
Divide the students into groups of three or four. Give each group a
Idioms
copy of the game board, a dice, counters, and a gap-fill sentences
sheet with the answers folded so they are hidden.
Aim
Players take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter
To practice common along the board.
idioms by using them to
complete sentences. When a player lands on a letter square, the student to their right
picks up the sheet and reads the gap-fill sentence that corresponds
to the letter on the square and the number they rolled to reach
Preparation it, using the word BLANK for the missing idiom in the sentence.
Make one copy of the
The player listens to the sentence and then uses one of the idioms
game board and gap-fill
shown in the idiom bank on the game board to complete the
sentences sheet for each
sentence, repeating the full sentence with the correct idiom.
group of three or four.
Fold the answers on the
If the player answers correctly, they move forward one space. If
sentences sheet so they
they answer incorrectly, they move back one space.
are hidden. You will also
need a dice and counters
The first player to reach the finish is the winner.
for each group.
As a variation, you can have an extra student in each group
Level who acts as the quizmaster and is responsible for asking all the
questions.
Intermediate (B1)
Example:

Time Player 1 rolls a three and moves to the square marked D.

25 minutes
The student on their right reads sentence D3, "I like maths, but
history just goes BLANK."

Player 1 looks at the idiom bank and chooses the best idiom that
replaces the word BLANK and answers, e.g. 'over my head' or 'I
like maths, but history just goes over my head'.

The student then unfolds the sheet to check the correct answer.
If it's correct, the student replies with 'That's right'. Player 1 then
moves forward one space. If the answer is wrong, the student
says 'Sorry, that's incorrect' and Player 1 moves back one space.

Then, Player 2 begins their turn.

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 IDIOMS

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Hang in there!

B D A A B D

Go
forward
E C E
two
spaces

Oh no!
Finish C D
Go back
B

Idiom bank
A

call it a day on the ball give me a hand

miss the boat hang in there I'm beat over my head

E
piece of cake stay in touch take it easy

Start E D C C

E A B A

C B E B

Super Go back
D A skip! Move C two D
ahead spaces

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 IDIOMS

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Hang in there!

A B C D E

BLANK. There
I'm sorry, that Because Sally is I don't
Just BLANK. are only five
went BLANK. always BLANK, understand this
1 No need to get minutes left
Can you explain her boss gave problem. Can
angry. until the lesson
it again? her a pay rise. you BLANK?
ends.

Let's BLANK These are This job is a

I need to take I can't study
after selling fast. Buy BLANK. There's
2 a nap because any more today.
graduation! now and don't almost no work
BLANK. Time to BLANK.
Friends forever! BLANK. to do.

In the exam, be I don't have

The other team The lesson
sure to BLANK any homework I like maths,
is good, but will end in two
3 and follow the this weekend, but history just
BLANK. We can minutes, so let's
instructions so I'm going to goes BLANK.
still win! BLANK early.
carefully. BLANK.

Don't BLANK. My friend is

BLANK with this That test was BLANK after
Take the moving, but I
4 box. It's too a BLANK. I got that three-hour
opportunity promised her I
heavy for me. 100%. soccer practice.
now! would BLANK.

His joke went I know it's It's a BLANK to

I think I'll I call my
BLANK. I didn't difficult, but play this game,
5 BLANK and go grandma every
understand it at BLANK. You can but not so easy
home. week to BLANK.
all. do it! to win.

This summer, I'm afraid that I

He left it very
I'll take a break I'm going am not BLANK Can you BLANK
late to submit
6 from studying to relax and today. I have cleaning up this
his work. He
because BLANK. BLANK on the made many mess?
may BLANK.
beach. mistakes.

FOLD

A B C D E

1 take it easy over my head on the ball give me a hand Hang in there

2 stay in touch I'm beat miss the boat call it a day piece of cake

3 on the ball hang in there take it easy over my head call it a day

4 give me a hand piece of cake miss the boat I'm beat stay in touch

5 over my head call it a day stay in touch hang in there piece of cake

6 I'm beat take it easy on the ball miss the boat give me a hand

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