These are activities for students to introduce and practise colour idioms. Students complete the idioms with the missing colours, then complete the sentences with the missing expressions and in pairs answer questions containing the idioms.
Level: B2+
Time: 60 minutes
Objectives:
- To introduce colour idioms.
- To complete the idioms with the missing colours.
- To complete the sentences with the missing idioms.
- To practise the new expressions whilst asking and answering questions.
Materials (Click on the worksheets below to download the PDF files):
Procedure:
- Put students in pairs and ask them to briefly discuss questions in Exercise 1.
- Hand students Somewhere over the rainbow Part 2 Worksheet or display it on the screen for everyone to see.
- Individually, students first try to complete the idioms with the missing colours (Exercise 2).
- When the students have finished, they compare their answers with a partner.
- Check the answers and elicit meaning. Clarify the expressions that are new or not quite clear.
- Now, students complete the sentences 1 to 12 with the missing idioms (Exercise 2). When the students have finished, they compare their answers with a partner.
- Check the answers as a class.
- Go to exercise 3 and from memory ask students to correct the mistakes highlighted in different colours. You could turn it into a mini competition and maybe even time the students 😉
- Now students answer questions 1 to 12 in pairs. Encourage them to ask their classmates additional questions to obtain more details.
- If you have had no time to discuss all questions in class ask students to answer a couple of them in writing at home.
Fast finishers:
Ask students to rate the expressions from the most to the least useful, according to them.
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P. S. This post is dedicated to my lovely student Raquel, who was tickled pink about learning new colour idioms today. Thank you for a wonderful class my dear 🙂
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