 3. Ideas to teach funny English idioms in EFL. Idioms are great yet a challenging material to teach as they usually are culturally and stylistically influenced. Another problem is choosing a suitable idiom to teach different groups of students. In this blog post, we share 10 fun English idioms and 3 ideas to teach these English idioms in your EFL classroom. 1. Literal and figurative meaning. To help students understand the meaning of an idiom and to help remember it fast, refer them a visual presentation. Draw the literal meaning of the idiom on one side of the sheet, what it sounds like it means, and the figurative meaning on the other side, what it actually means. If you don't feel like drawing, use popular memes. This activity can be used with any idioms that have a clear literal and figurative meaning. For example, to have Van Gaussier for music. The lights are on but nobody's home. To put a sock in it. Finger licking good. 2. Mentor texts. If you haven't heard of mentored texts yet, it's the right to learn about it and start using them in your teaching. Basically, mentored texts can be any text for comprehensive reading to help students learn vocabulary, patterns and other linguistic points in a natural unconscious way. There are many great story books focused on idioms as well. For example, Life is a Bowl full of cherries by Vanita Olschlager. Raining Cats and Dogs by Will Moses. Butterflies in My Stomach by Serge Block. 3. Online Games. To enhance your real-time classes or make online lessons more fun, use online activities related to your teaching point. In the case of idioms, you can create your own games with resources such as word wall or learning apps. For example, matching idioms with their meaning, concentration game, task cards, act out. Do you want to teach English abroad or online? Take a TEFL course. All of the activities mentioned above can be successfully used with any language point. Be creative and try them out to see which worked best for your EFL classroom.