This lesson explores some of the idioms used in English to describe people, events, happenings.
Description
In this fun lesson we visit some of the idioms in English related to people or characteristics or places or happenings and use lots of different examples, with visual cues and quizzes. This lesson is suitable for beginners- intermediate and can be taken alone or with Idioms in English 1 for more examples. Homework is given to reinforce learning.
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