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What to do with idioms on the first days of school? The best thing is to talk about holidays. Students are full of experiences which they are eager to share. Give your students a list of idioms they have learned. Or they can use their phones or tablets and go to my blog http://visualidioms.blogspot.com/. Ask them to choose idioms that best represent their holidays. They can, for example, choose the idiom be on the expensive side http://visualidioms.blogspot.cz/2013/08/be-on-expensive-side.html because they travelled a lot and spent a lot of money on souvenirs, clothes, food, etc. Or they can choose let things slide http://visualidioms.blogspot.cz/2013/08/let-things-slide.html because they just relaxed and ignored all the things they had planned to do. Some students might have had to burn the candle at both ends http://visualidioms.blogspot.cz/2013/07/burn-candle-at-both-ends.html because they had a part-time job and got little sleep.

Students work in pairs and discuss their holidays. After some time, ask the students to change their partners. While working with the new partner, they retell what the previous one told them. In the end you can elicit the idioms mentioned during the discussions and put them on the board (or project them on the screen). It will be interesting to see which idioms were the most popular.

As a homework assignment, your students can write about their holidays and share their work via GE.TT http://www.ge.tt/.