Vocabulary Worksheets

This worksheet looks at some common expressions connected to hospitals and health. These include: * be admitted to the hospital * have an operation * rule out (something) * keep someone under observation * be the picture of health and more! After a lead-in and vocabulary-matching exercise, there is a conversation for your students to practice. There are follow-up exercises and role-plays to help your students become confident with the expressions. This worksheet is ideal for intermediate levels and above.

This worksheet looks at some common expressions connected to the word 'keep', including:

• keep a secret
• keep in touch
• keep a promise
• keep going
• keep out
• keep up

The worksheet includes a caption quiz (pictured) as well as discussion questions.

This worksheet is great for intermediate-level students.

Apartment (or flat) hunting can be a nightmare! This worksheet has some common expressions when talking about property.

There is a conversation - which has been prepared in strips for you to cut up and get students to match.

The worksheet continues with vocabulary building exercises. Your students can then personalise the language by drawing a simple diagram of their house/apartment and explain it to their partners.

This worksheet is written for intermediate-level classes.

This worksheet looks at six common phrasal verbs using the word 'come'. Your students will study:

• come across something
• come down with an illness
• come forward
• come along
• come on
• come out

There is a quiz, followed by a caption game and lots of discussion questions.

It's a great way to improve your students' knowledge of these all-important expressions!

This is a fun worksheet which looks at some common expressions which students need to understand.

There are fourteen different signs on one page. On the second page are the places you are likely to see them. Can your student match the signs to the locations and guess the meaning

Alternatively, you could have a quiz, where you read the location, and the students have to 'buzz in' and tell you the sign.

This worksheet is written for intermediate to advanced-level students.

This worksheet looks at these weather-related idioms:

• be under the weather
• be as right as rain
• be snowed under with something
• go down a storm
• have a face like thunder

There are lots of exercises to help your students memorize the idioms - and the lesson rounds off with discussion questions, so your class will have the chance to personalise the language.

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate to advanced-level learners.

Continuing our phrasal verb theme, this worksheet looks at six common expressions based around the verb 'take'.

After an opening exercise teaching the expressions (or finding out how much your students already know), there is a picture quiz, followed by discussion questions.

The phrasal verbs covered are:

take down [decorations]

take up [a hobby]

take over [a company]

take off [your shoes]

take after [someone]

take back [something you said]

This worksheet is written for intermediate level students.

This worksheet looks at some common expressions connected to music.

Your students will learn about:

• play it by ear
• as fit as a fiddle
• blow your own trumpet
• music to my ears
• change your tune

As well as a guess-the-meaning exercise, there are additional exercises to help your students memorise the language.

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions which use the idioms.