List 1

Activity 3

Be sure you have studied the words in Activity 1 and Activity 2. Once you have completed the first two activities, choose ten idioms from the idiom list below.

cup of tea

cut the mustard

piece of cake

egg on my face

apple of my eye

cry over spilt milk

in a nutshell

eat his words

cool as a cucumber

half-baked

bringing home the bacon

egged me on

cream of the crop

souped myself up

worth my salt

coffee breaks

sell like hotcakes

out to lunch

handed to me on a silver platter

a bad egg

out of the frying pan and into

the fire

spilled the beans

Then, write a response to the question below using the ten idioms you chose from the list above. Be sure you use the correct tense if necessary.

Tell me about a time when you were trying to be the best in a group but failed to succeed at whatever you were doing. If you cannot think of a situation like this, then tell me about a very difficult experience you had and how you handled it.