
how the course is structured and what it contains
Learn idioms through a Christmas morning mini-story featuring a snowstorm and snowman, with blue, white Christmas, once in a blue moon, out of the blue, and tickled pink.
Explore 480+ idioms through mini-stories, including feel blue, white Christmas, once in a blue moon, tickled pink, out of the blue, rusty, out of shape, and chalk up to experience.
Explore 480+ idioms through Netflix time, a couch potato uses humor and idioms like no use crying over spilled milk and you can't have your cake and eat it.
Explore 480+ idioms through mini-stories, including couch potato and you can't have your cake and eat it too, with clear examples showing how these expressions convey emphasis.
Plan a surprise birthday party while mastering idioms through mini-stories, including kill two birds with one stone, take a gander, and deer in headlights.
Learn how idioms like kill two birds with one stone, have a gander, goose bumps, and deer in headlights come alive through mini-stories.
Explore common idioms through a lively family story, featuring rain cats and dogs and other expressions in this mini-story lesson.
Learn how idioms operate in context through a mini-story, featuring rain cats and dogs, hole up, watch like a hawk, and the cat that ate the canary.
Grandpa recalls simpler fun outdoors, weaving idioms like 'in my day,' 'these days,' and 'time flies,' as he contrasts fishing with modern games, while the grandson comments on his pace.
Explore how grandpa contrasts in my day with these days through idioms like back in one's day, time flies, and give me something any day, all told through mini-stories.
Master more than 480 idioms through a compelling mini-story about Terry's surprising promotion, highlighting phrases like so much for relaxing, drop by, the whole nine yards, and on cloud nine.
Explore how idioms like so much for, drop by, at least, fired, go under, after all, and on cloud nine drive a short story about Terry and his boss.
Dive into the action show narrative, learning idioms like ants in my pants, hurt a fly, moth to a flame, dropping like flies, and bee's knees.
Learn idioms like ants in one's pants, antsy, wouldn't hurt a fly, bug-eyed, mad as a hornet, and moth to a flame illuminate the banker's story in an action show.
Explore idioms through a mini-story about David balancing chores and gaming, illustrating phrases like in hot water, bigger fish to fry, and smooth sailing.
David navigates chores and trouble, teaching idioms like in hot water, get around to, pour water into a sieve, bigger fish to fry, and come hell or high water.
Explore how idioms like pick your brain, wrap your head around, and two heads are better than one appear in a nerd story set in an office.
Explore idioms such as nerd, pick your brain, on your mind, mind your own business, wrap your mind around, two heads are better than one, and no-brainer, through mini-stories.
Welcome to Idioms Gone Ballistic!
This course is designed to teach you over 480 common English idioms (plus phrasal verbs, slang, and more!) that you will very often hear and read in English TV shows, movies, books, and everyday conversations. You will learn all of the idioms, phrasal verbs, etc. through the context of mini-stories (very short stories), as well as learn all of the possible variations, so that you can fully understand them all and be confident enough to use them yourself.
This course is perfect for intermediate and advanced English students who want to fully master English idioms and sound more like a native when speaking English.
This course includes:
stories built around idioms from particular categories, such as Food & Drink, Animals, and Sound & Music.
lessons explaining the contents of the stories, as well as explaining all variations of the idioms, phrasal verbs, etc. and providing more example sentences
quizzes after each story to test your knowledge of what you learned in the story
PDF transcripts of all stories and lessons
Come join us and improve your English fluency in every way!
ATTENTION: Please be aware that some of the stories in this course contain content that might not be suitable for children.