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  • Idioms: Feelings and Emotions (PDF)

    Idioms: Feelings and Emotions (PDF)

    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.

    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.

  • Idioms: Body and Health (PDF)

    Idioms: Body and Health (PDF)

    Body and health idioms are the figurative-English layer where physical states map onto emotional and behavioural meanings. A pain in the neck (annoying), get cold feet (become nervous), let your hair down (relax), keep a stiff upper lip (stay calm), under the weather (slightly ill), off-colour (unwell), pull yourself together (regain composure). Learners build the receptive recognition and selectively productive use of high-frequency body-health idioms.

    This worksheet builds B1–B2 fluency with body-and-health idioms.

    What’s inside:

    • An idiom bank with 18 high-frequency expressions, meanings, and examples
    • Multiple-choice items testing meaning in context
    • Gap-fill: complete the sentence with the right idiom
    • Production task: write a short paragraph using three target idioms
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes

    Common challenges: Word-for-word translation rarely works at B1–B2 — get cold feet doesn’t translate. Register awareness: most body-health idioms are casual-to-neutral, fine in conversation, wrong in academic writing. Frequency intuition: which idioms are worth using productively vs which to just recognise.

    For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1–B2, in intermediate and upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B2 First (FCE) Reading-Use of English. Part of the Body & Emotions Idioms collection — the natural next step is Idioms: Body Parts.

  • Idioms: Body Parts (PDF)

    Idioms: Body Parts (PDF)

    Body parts idioms is the B1 figurative-language collection built on anatomical metaphors. Pull someone’s leg (joke), cost an arm and a leg (very expensive), put your foot in your mouth (say something embarrassing), give someone a hand (help), keep an eye on (watch), off the top of my head (without thinking carefully), head over heels (deeply in love), bite your tongue (stay silent). Learners build the body-idiom range that natural conversational English uses constantly.

    This worksheet builds B1 fluency with body-parts idioms.

    What’s inside:

    • An idiom bank with 20 high-frequency body-parts expressions
    • Matching task: pair idiom with meaning
    • Gap-fill in conversational contexts
    • Production task: write a dialogue using at least three body-parts idioms
    • Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes

    Common challenges: Body-idiom transparency varies — give someone a hand (semi-transparent: hand = help) vs pull someone’s leg (fully opaque). Some have L1 equivalents that look similar but mean different things. Register: body-parts idioms are casual; using them in formal writing sounds odd.

    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) Reading-Use of English. Part of the Body & Emotions Idioms collection — the natural next step is Idioms: Feelings and Emotions.