Food idioms: talking turkey at the holiday table
Vocabulary · Idioms · B2 · 35 min. Learn twelve food idioms, follow them through one family's Thanksgiving, check what speakers mean, spot idioms used wrongly and use them to find out about your classmates.
About this worksheet
Learn twelve food idioms, follow them through one family's Thanksgiving, check what speakers mean, spot idioms used wrongly and use them to find out about your classmates.
- Level
- B2
- Category
- Vocabulary
- Topic
- Idioms
- Time
- About 35 minutes
- Exercises
- Key words, Gap-fill, Multiple choice, True / False, Table to fill in, Matching, Speaking / writing task, Writing lines
- Answer key
- Included
- Access
- Premium
On the sheet
- Key words: Learn the idioms.
- Gap-fill: Read Carmen's story about Thanksgiving with her family in San Antonio.
- Multiple choice: What does the speaker mean? Choose a, b, c or d.
- True / False: Is the idiom used correctly? Write T (correct) or F (not correct).
- Table to fill in: Find someone who… Make a question from each cue and ask your classmate
- Matching: Match the sentence beginnings with the endings.
- Speaking / writing task: Tell the class what you found out. Then write a message to a friend.
