“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Students love learning idioms! With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to teach love idioms to your young learners. Visuals like this poster can really help students remember idioms, which can be difficult because they don’t make literal sense. Last year, our writer Tara Benwell created this fun Love Idioms poster for us. Download the full-size PDF version by clicking on the image or link below.
Download the large-size printable Love Idioms poster PDF
Ways to Practice Idioms
1. HANGING AROUND: We’ll be producing idioms posters like this once in a while. Hang them up around your classroom as a colorful way to help students remember these idioms!
2. SKITS: Put students into pairs, and have them write and present a short skit that uses at least three of these idioms. You can be sure your students fully understand the meaning of the idioms if they use them correctly in a skit, and students will be exposed to the idioms several times, which will help with retention.
3. MAKING POSTERS: Use this poster to inspire your students to create their own posters! Give them big sheets of paper and some markers, and let them draw their own images to represent these idioms. Or pick a different theme, brainstorm related idioms, and have them make posters of those idioms.
Tara offers more suggestions in her blog post 8 Fun and Interactive Ways to Review Idioms!
More idioms posters:
More Valentine’s Day resources:
- Valentine’s Day Vocabulary Lesson
- Valentine’s Day – Capitalization, Punctuation & Spelling
- Valentine’s Day Game for Young Learners – Practicing Gerunds
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