Easy as Pie: everything you need to teach and learn idioms! | Cambridge for Central Asia

Easy as Pie: everything you need to teach and learn idioms!

Using English idioms in everyday speech equips us with a large and effective vocabulary to sound like a native speaker.

Tips to Teach and Learn Idioms

1. Provide idioms in context, so students can fully understand the meaning. Introduce a simple context with the idiom.

2. Provide a picture that explains the context. This works best if you show an image which illustrates the literal meaning of the idiom.

Cambridge can help!
Use this series of short fun clips to show the real meaning of English idioms!

A teacher from Spain , Christopher Neal, has shared her ideas on using the resource:
‘II like the Youtube videos from Cambridge as I use them in my English classes in Spain. The idiom videos would be useful once a week would as I could build it into my classes weekly and get the class to learn at least one idiom per week and try to relate it to their exams’.