

This Grade 7 worksheet is designed to enhance students' understanding and usage of idioms in context. Idioms are figurative expressions that add depth and color to writing and speaking. By practicing their meaning and correct usage, students will be able to convey their ideas more effectively.
The activities in this worksheet, including true/false statements, idiom sorting, multiple-choice questions, and sentence rewriting, will help students understand idioms' meanings and use them in the right context.
- Understand the meaning of various idioms in context.
- Improve their ability to use idioms effectively in writing and speech.
- Practice integrating idioms into everyday communication for greater impact.
Exercise 1 – True/False
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. False
8. True
9. False
10. False
Exercise 2 – Sort the idioms into their meanings
Meaning:
- Endure a painful situation:Bite the bullet
- Easy: Piece of cake
- Go to sleep: Hit the sack
- Reveal a secret: Spill the beans
- Work late into the night:Burn the midnight oil
- Start a conversation: Break the ice
- Deceive someone: Pull someone's leg
- Feeling sick:Under the weather
- Good luck: Break a leg
- Tell a secret accidentally: Let the cat out of the bag
Exercise 3 – Match the idioms with their correct meaning
1. Spill the beans: Reveal a secret
2. Break a leg: Good luck
3. Hit the sack: Go to sleep
4. Piece of cake: Easy
5. Bite the bullet: Endure a painful situation
6. Under the weather: Feeling sick
7. Pull someone's leg: Deceive someone
8. Hit the books: Study hard
9. Kick the bucket: Die
10. Break the ice:Start a conversation
Exercise 4 – Choose the correct option to complete the sentence
1. b) Reveal a secret
2. a) Good luck
3. a) Easy
4. b) Feeling sick
5. c) Die
Exercise 5 – Rewrite each sentence using idioms
1. She revealed the secret during the meeting. → She spilled the beans during the meeting.
2. He went to sleep after a long day of work. → He hit the sack after a long day of work.
3. She was feeling sick and couldn't attend class. → She was under the weather and couldn't attend class.
4. They studied hard for the upcoming exam. → They hit the books for the upcoming exam.
5. He made it through the difficult situation. → He bit the bullet and made it through the difficult situation.
6. She told me something unbelievable. → She let the cat out of the bag.
7. He was very lucky during the competition. → He broke a leg during the competition.
8. He made a joke at my expense. → He pulled my leg.
9. We had a great conversation at the party. → We broke the ice at the party.
10. She had an easy task to complete. → She had a piece of cake to complete.
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Idioms are phrases where the meaning is not directly related to the individual words, such as "break the ice," which means to initiate conversation.
Introduce idioms with visual aids or through storytelling, and explain their meanings in simple terms.
Idioms enrich vocabulary, making communication more expressive and culturally relevant, especially in informal settings.