30 days of lessons
Get a video lesson and an exercise every day, as well as lots and lots of reviews.
Useful, modern idioms
Make your English more interesting and understand native speakers with 150 really useful, common idioms.
Scientific techniques
Remember the idioms, even if you think you have a bad memory. And learn memory techniques that will help you forever.
"How do idioms help me get to advanced level?"
Students often ask me 'how can I get past the 'intermediate plateau' and speak and write more naturally, at a more advanced level?'
My answer?
It's all about vocabulary! Yes, (of course!) grammar is important, but deliberately learning high-level vocabulary will help you speak and write at a much more advanced level.
With advanced vocabulary, your English is more sophisticated, natural and precise.
One very important part of advanced vocabulary is idioms.
Idioms are expressions that don't make sense, even if you know all the words. For example, expressions like 'once in a blue moon' or 'steal someone's thunder' or 'make a pig's ear of something'.
Native English speakers use this kind of expression all the time.
Micahel from Ukraine
I thorougly enjoyed the course! Ten out of ten!
Adina from Romania
I learned a lot... it was extremely useful. Now I understand way better what native speakers say.
Hubavina from Bulgaria
The course is very useful for me. I've improved my understanding a lot. Thank you!
How can idioms improve my listening?
When you're listening to native English speakers, or watching a film or series, do you understand everything?
Students often ask me how to improve their listening.
I think there are two answers.
The first answer is that you need to listen enough so that you can hear each word, instead of one long noise. This is just practice.
And the second answer is that you need to know enough vocabulary. It's often true that this vocabulary isn't taught in textbooks! It's natural, everyday vocabulary, which native speakers use daily in real life.
One big part of this vocabulary is idioms. If you learn some carefully-chosen, everyday idioms properly, it really helps your understanding.
Svetlana from Russia
Extremely useful idioms, easy to practise, revise and memorize.
Mike who lives in the USA
The course has good explanations, helpful exercise and reviews. These idioms help me to understand the shows on Netflix much better! I hope another 30-day challenge idioms will be coming soon.
Raquel from Spain
It's a easy way to learn and remember new idioms.
"How do I know which idioms to study?"
But, how do you know which idioms to study?
There are so many! And some of them are old fashioned, or very rare, or sound strange!
One way to choose your idioms is to collect them when you're reading or listening to English.
Another way is to get some help from a teacher or native English speaker.
And another way is to join our idioms challenge! We've carefully chosen 150 really useful, everyday idioms that you'll hear and use often in real life.
Pauline from Chile
I liked everything!
Mohanapriya from India
When I am in meetings or conversations with English people I can understand more than before.
Hasan from Turkey
It is a very useful method - I learned many new idioms.
What you get:
30 video lessons
I explain 5 useful, modern idioms every day very clearly, with examples.
66 review exercises
Practice is key! The review exercises are carefully structured and very efficient.
PDFs of everything
You can download and print everything.
Flashcards of everything
Flashcards really, really help you to remember the idioms. They are scientifically proven to work and they're brilliant!
An email every day
We'll send you a reminder to log in, so that you don't forget to do your lesson.
Help from the Perfect English Grammar team
Got questions? Ask us inside the challenge and we'll help you.
Idioms 2 Challenge Curriculum
Frequently Asked Questions
The challenge starts on the 1st day of the month and you get a new lesson every day for thirty days.
You can keep the challenge forever and study it whenever you like. It doesn't matter if you don't finish in thirty days - you can do it later.
There's a short video and an exercise every day, plus reviews. It will take about fifteen or twenty minutes.
We have thousands of happy students! But if you do decide that the challenge isn't what you need, we offer a full 30-day guarantee. Just send us an email and we'll give you your money back.
Yes! You are very welcome to use this material in your classroom or with your private students. Everything can be printed and photocopied.