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Idiom quizzes

Learners often complain about the difficulties they have in understanding native speakers of English. One reason for this is the failure of native speakers to make themselves easily understood. And one way of coping with this is to learn strategies for taking control of the situation to encourage native speakers to express themselves more intelligibly. Another way of tackling the problem is to learn some of the idiomatic language native speakers often use.

The idioms in the 5 example mini quizzes in this selection are all in current use – most on both sides of the Atlantic – and should be of some help to learners who have native speaker colleagues or business partners.

The five mini-quizzes are followed by a review quiz to help learners consolidate idiomatic expressions.

These are the applications used to produce the quizzes:

  • Smore
  • Notegraphy
  • Riddle

Each of the quizzes is scrollable if you want to view them and to share a quiz with your learners, click on the link above each one.

Idiom 1

Idiom 2

Idiom 3

Idiom 4

Idiom 5

Review quiz: Idioms 1 – 5

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Carl Dowse is currently a lecturer of English for business at the University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany. Carl has taught English in higher education and with corporate clients in Italy, Germany and the UK since 1995. Read More…

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