Introduction: 

These are activities for students to introduce and practise furniture & fixture idioms. Students complete the sentences with the missing words, decide if the definitions of the idioms are correct and do a Find someone who activity with their classmates.

Level: C1

Time: 60 minutes

Objectives:

1. To introduce furniture & fixture idioms.
2. To complete the sentences with the missing words.
3. To decide if the definitions of the idioms are correct or incorrect.
4. To interview other students and try to get answers to as many questions as possible.

Materials (Click on the worksheet below to download the PDF file):

1. Can_t stop dishing out idioms Worksheet, one per student.

Procedure:

1. Write down the missing words from Exercise 1 on the board and in pairs ask students to tell each other if they know any idioms containing those words.
2. Elicit some answers from the students.
3. Hand the students Can’t stop dishing out idioms Worksheet.
4. Individually, students try to complete the sentences in Exercise 1 with the missing words.
5. When the students have finished, they compare their answers with a partner.
6. Check the answers as a class.
7. Now, individually again, the students decide if the definitions of the idioms in Exercise 1 are correct or incorrect (T = true, F= false).
8. When they have finished, ask them to compare with their partner.
9. Check the answers as a class.
10. Next, using the bottom half of the worksheet (Exercise 2), students mingle asking questions and trying to get affirmative answers from their classmates, e.g. Is your sister a couch potato? If the other student says ‘yes’ they have to justify their answer to the interviewer and give an example or two, e.g. She spends 23 hours out of 24 on the sofa. She never does any exercise. Allow no more than 3 minutes for each interview. When the time is up ask students to switch partners.
11. When the students have had a chance to ask everyone’s opinion, ask them how many affirmative answers they managed to get and which answers surprised them the most.

Fast finishers:

1. Ask students to describe their ideal partner using at least 5 of the idioms studied, e.g. My ideal partner would have a memory like a sieve and quickly forget if I did or said something he didn’t like.

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