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This fun warmer which can be used at the beginning of the school year and throughout the school year practices the following idiomatic expressions:

Set 1:
Être bourré comme un cochon
Faire d'une pierre deux coups
Faire la navette
Faire le poireau
Faire le pont
À l'heure du laitier
Occupe-toi de tes oignons
Passer un coup de fil
Passer une nuit blanche

Set 2:
L’argent ne se trouve pas sous le pas d’un cheval
Avoir du blé/de la maille/ de l'oseille/ de la thune
Avoir la chair de poule
Avoir la gueule de bois
Avoir la dent/ les crocs/ la dalle
Avoir un chat dans la gorge
Boire un coup
C’est du gâteau
Chacun son truc
Un coup de foudre

Proverbs:
All that glitters is not gold.
Tout ce qui brille n'est pas or.
Come what may.
Advienne que pourra.
Like father like son.
Tel père tel fils.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
A cheval donné, on ne regarde pas la bouche.
The end justifies the means.
La fin justifie les moyens.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
Un de perdu, dix de retrouvé.
To err is human.
L'erreur est humain
When the cat's away the mice will play.
Quand le chat n'est pas là, les souris dansent.
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
On ne fait pas d'omelette sans casser les œufs.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse.
An eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth).
Oeil pour œil (dent pour dent).
Every penny counts.
Un sou est un sou.
Never put off to tomorrow what can be done today.
Il ne faut pas remettre au lendemain ce qu'on peut faire le jour même.
No news is go

You may choose to have different levels of challenge. For example,
Level 1 = match the cards and discuss the pronunciation.
Level 2 = match the cards , discuss the pronunciation and then have quick fire questions from French to English, whereby 1 student closes their eyes and their partner reads out the French cards which the student must translate into English from memory.
Level 3 = As Level 2 but the quick fire questions are from English to French.

Following checking there are 2 fun games to play, either pelmenism or slap the card.

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