LESSON PLAN Subject: English Level: Upper- Intermediate/ Advanced Topic: Idioms Objectives: Students will get familiarized

d with some American idioms. Students will learn the meaning of each idiom and be able to use them properly in class activities and real-life situations. Materials: Computer, Video beam, Speakers (the important thing is that every student has the chance to listen to the video very clearly) American Idioms list (as many as needed. One per group of 3 or 4 students) Warm up: The teacher will start the class by writing on the board some idioms (only the idiom, not a whole sentence) that he will use during the rest of the class (see list of idioms and video) and he will ask the students to translate them. After students find the literal meaning the teacher will write a sentence in which the idioms are going to be used as what they are. When students cant get the meaning of the expression in the sentence, the teacher will explain the concept of an Idiom, then explain the meaning of it in the sentence and finally give some other examples, including some idioms in their own language that cant be deduced from its literal meaning. (15 to 20 min)

Idiom
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., raining cats and dogs) A form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people: "he had a feeling for phrase and idiom". A set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words.

Lesson Outline 1. Explain students that they will watch a video about idioms and have them write all the idioms they hear and how they were used in the video. Show them the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sxXkh3wb5Y&list=PLrqHrGoMJdTQhYgWHuLXcmCFSOO iQvawt) (7 min)

2. Talk about the idioms they wrote down and make sure they understand the meaning, make also sure everybody has all of them at the end. (5 to 10 min) 3. Separate the class in groups of 3 or 4 and hand out the list of American Idioms (one per group), have the students read them in their respective groups. (10 min) 4. Tell students that they will create a conversation (not too short) in the groups using at least one idiom per student and let them know they will act it out in front of the class. (10 to 15 min) Encourage them to be creative so that they actually enjoy the activity, you could reward the most creative conversation in some way so that they give their bests and come up with very original and fun conversations. 5. Have students do the role play and make sure they are using the idioms in the right way, when they are done, correct them if needed. (20 to 30 min) Closure Have students go back to their seats and separate the groups. Now individually, ask them to draw in the best way they can their 3 favorite idioms. Once they finish, ask students to exchange them with the person next to them and their partners will try to find out what idiom it is and write down the meaning of the expression. (10 to 15 min) Assignment Students will look for 10 new idioms and bring them next class to share a few of them with the rest of their classmates; they have to write down the idiom, the meaning of it and a very clear example to illustrate it. Also recommend Rachels English Channel in YouTube to your students, if they are interested in improving their American English. (5 min)