Lesson Type: Vocabulary

Level: Intermediate to Advanced (B1 - C2)

Lesson length: 90 minutes

Summary: In this test-teach-test lesson, students will learn and practice 14 different idioms involving animals. You’ll be able to check students’ current knowledge of target language through a student-centered diagnostic activity. Learners will then complete interactive practice exercises and will finally use the animal idioms in a funny role plays involving awkward conversations.

Target language: animal idioms

-Don't be a chicken

-Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

-Healthy as a horse

-Get off your high horse

-A dark horse

-In the doghouse

-You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

-The cat’s out of the bag

-Like herding cats

-Two birds with one stone

-Free as a bird

-Something fishy

-A big fish in a small pond

-A fish out of water

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