English. Idioms

A monolingual course of English idioms for intermediate to proficient students.

English. Idioms is a course in English idioms that serves as excellent help for intermediate, advanced and proficient learners of English who would like to develop their vocabulary scope and expand their linguistic repertoire. Active knowledge of idioms in a foreign language reflects your high competence, as well as allows you to make your English utterances more interesting and diversified, which is especially crucial while speaking and writing.

The course contains 3,500 English idioms divided into four groups starting with the most popular ones, such as “ups and downs”, with a high level of frequency in the language, and going up to the most advanced and unusual, such as “to know one’s onions”. Each exercise is a simple question-and-answer task where you need to come up with an English idiom that fits the definition. In the answer mode, you will be provided with a sample sentence that shows how to use a given idiom in context.