Lesson overview:
This worksheet teaches 12 idioms about school and learning (hit the books, learn something by heart, pass with flying colours, a steep learning curve, teacher's pet, make the grade, the school of hard knocks, know something inside out, draw a blank, put your thinking cap on, a bookworm, skip class) and then does the part most idiom lessons skip: which of them belong in writing, which are spoken only, and which now sound dated.
By the end of the worksheet, students will be able to:
- use 12 idioms about education accurately in sentences
- build each idiom correctly, from hit the books to put your thinking cap on
- match a real situation to the idiom that fits it judge which idioms are safe in formal writing and which are speech only
