Resource for idioms/expressions lessons or handouts?

[Spixe]

Hi guys. ESL teacher here. I'm teaching a weekly class on idioms, common expressions, phrasal verbs, collocations, or something along those lines - more than just basic vocabulary. It's an in-person class, so I like to use handouts I can give to the students.

I'm looking for a site, portal, or resource that has a large collection of printable material ready to use in a consistent format (think breakingnewsenglish, those are PERFECT). Paid is fine, as long as there are more than just a handful. So far, sites like eslbrain, linguahouse, english4tutors, etc., and even usingenglish.com, while they do offer some lessons, either don't provide many lessons, or the lessons aren't in any consistent structure; they there might be a couple dozen lessons on idioms (and obviously, we could find hundreds of lessons online if we look hard enough) by a couple dozen different teachers, which means they never follow the same format. I'm pretty much hoping to find something just like the breaking new English handouts, only for expressions, collocations, or idioms. Might anyone know of such a resource?

 

[Tarheel]

Idioms have been discussed here many times. I sure you can find discussions about idioms without any trouble. Also, I am pretty sure there is a section devoted to idioms on the glossary page.

 

[emsr2d2]

If you're looking for readymade material, rather than making your own worksheets etc, have a look at EnglishBanana. It's not idiom-specific but there are thousands of handouts and worksheets so I'm sure you'll find some idiom-related material on there.

Please note that I've moved your thread to the Teaching English sub-forum.

 

[Spixe]

Idioms have been discussed here many times. I sure you can find discussions about idioms without any trouble. Also, I am pretty sure there is a section devoted to idioms on the glossary page.

I think you missed my point. I'm looking for a large resource of ready made printable material that follows the same format - like the printables for Breaking News English as a perfect example. I'm not interested in "discussions about idioms" and I'm aware of the myriad of websites online that have worksheets and breakdowns of idioms, but I would have to revise them myself into the same format I can use for a weekly idioms class, which I'd rather not do. I DID already search the forums for a post where someone shared what I was looking for but after going through a dozen or so posts, I decided to post. If you found a post that I missed that does indeed have a link to a source of ready-to-print lessons that follow a standard format like described above, by all means please let me know, I must have missed it!

If you're looking for readymade material, rather than making your own worksheets etc, have a look at EnglishBanana. It's not idiom-specific but there are thousands of handouts and worksheets so I'm sure you'll find some idiom-related material on there.

Please note that I've moved your thread to the Teaching English sub-forum.

Thanks for moving it, I wasn't sure to post it there or the idioms thread, so now I know. Thank you for the link as well. I went through the site but didn't see a collection of worksheets on idioms/phrasal verbs/the like. I saw lots of good material that was more or less grammar based, activity based, or book based, and a few worksheets on idioms, etc, but not like a large collection that follows the same format like what I'm looking for. Although I might have missed it, so I'll spend more time looking through the site to be safe. Anywho, thanks again, appreciate the reply!

 

[emsr2d2]

I think you missed my point. I'm looking for a large resource of ready made printable material that follows the same format - like the printables for Breaking News English as a perfect example.

I've never seen that website so I don't know how it does things. However, to clarify, do you mean that every piece of material on the site you're hoping to find would be in exactly the same format, regardless of the subject matter?

 

[Spixe]

I've never seen that website so I don't know how it does things. However, to clarify, do you mean that every piece of material on the site you're hoping to find would be in exactly the same format, regardless of the subject matter?

Check it out, it's a great resource. To clarify, I mean where the material on the TOPIC that I'm looking for, in this case collocations, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang, or common expressions, would be a consistent format - as opposed to each article/worksheet being created by a different teacher and therefore each handout would either be in the format of whichever teacher made the handout that day, or would have to be changed by me to keep it consistent. I'm not asking for a site to where "every piece of material on the site is in exactly the same format, regardless of the subject matter" but at least a site that has a collection of material on, lets say idioms for example, that DO FOLLOW THE SAME FORMAT. Does this answer your question?

To illustrate my point and my example more clearly for you, check out: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2412/241209-drinkable-mayonnaise-m.html

This website creates all of their news handouts with a myriad of activities (seriously, like 15-20 at least), but you can choose to download/view every lesson in a "mini-handout" form which makes every single lesson, out of the thousands that they have, follow the same consistent format, which contain: News text, true/false questions, phrase matching, discussion questions, synonym matching, key words/vocabulary, text jumble, and roleplay. Perfect for a one hour class that needs to be taught on the fly. Print it and teach it. So basically I'm looking for something just like that, only with other topics, in this case idioms and etc. I've checked out a half dozen more sites these days though, and still no luck sadly. ESL games was the closest, but unfortunately they only had four good ready to print idiom lessons. Would love to find a place that had something more like, say, four dozen.