This thoughtful ESL lesson introduces six powerful idioms that help learners express emotional struggles, recovery, and resilience. Students engage with natural dialogue, build vocabulary, and practise fluency while exploring real-life emotional experiences. Perfect for wellbeing-themed classes and adult learners seeking real-world language for emotional health.
 
What’s Included?
Discussion Questions to activate conversation
Reading Dialogue featuring real-life emotional challenges
Definition Matching, Sentence Transformations & Tense Gap-Fill
Typical Usage Matching
Speaking Task focused on personal resilience and reflection
 
Why Choose This Lesson?
Builds emotional fluency with natural idiomatic language
Helps students express setbacks and recovery in English
Encourages self-awareness and authentic conversation
Adaptable for online or in-person ESL classes

Bring connection and emotional depth into your ESL lessons with this ready-to-use mental health idioms resource.