Idioms: Feelings and Emotions
Feelings and emotions idioms is the B1 figurative-language collection that gives learners precise emotional vocabulary beyond happy/sad/angry. On cloud nine (extremely happy), down in the dumps (sad), over the moon (delighted), at the end of my tether (very stressed), feel blue (sad), jump for joy (very happy), see red (suddenly very angry), butterflies in your stomach (nervous), bite someone’s head off (snap angrily). Learners build the emotional-idiom range.
This worksheet builds B1 fluency with feelings-and-emotions idioms.
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What’s inside:
- An idiom bank with 20 emotion expressions across positive and negative
- Emotion-sort task: classify idioms by feeling
- Gap-fill in dialogue contexts
- Production task: describe a recent emotional experience using three idioms
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Emotional precision at B1 — strong emotions need strong idioms; mild emotions need mild ones. On cloud nine is intense; feel blue is mild. Cultural variation: some L1s have richer or sparser emotional idioms than English.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1, in intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET) and B2 First (FCE) Speaking and Writing. Part of the Body & Emotions Idioms collection — the natural next step is Idioms: Body and Health.
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