Food idioms - Egg
In this video the Teacher highlights these idioms:
1. He's a bad egg
2. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket
3. He's got egg on his face
Food idioms - Beans
1. To be full of beans
2. I haven't got a bean
3. To spill the beans
Food idioms - Tea
The Teacher describes these idioms in this video:
1. It's not my cup of tea
2. I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China
3. It's as good as a chocolate teapot.
In the last year I had a new matters, physics and I considered that is not my cup of tea and I said I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China. I think this is a bad egg for me.I considered physics it's as good as a chocolate teapot.
ReplyDeleteMalina B.
It starts with a normal day and then becomes the worst day ever.
ReplyDeleteWhen I woke up in the morning, I was full of beans and I didn’t know what to do, but the idea came fast. I called a friend and asked her if she wants to come at the cinema with me, but she told me that she is going to do something else. I was like: “Spill the beans!” and she told me that she has been a bad egg and her mom told her to stay in her room during the weekend.
The cinema was compromised, but I didn’t put all of my eggs in one basket, so I used plan B, shopping. Even if this is not my cup of tea, my parents need a present for their anniversary, witch is very close.
I went to the shop and entered it, saw the perfect present and took it. When I wanted to leave the shop, a man came and said: “You must pay for it, lady!” when I was looking for the money, I realized that I’ve got egg on my face, I have forgotten my money and now I haven’t got a bean…the man said: “If you have no money, you can work at the shop”. I wouldn’t do it for all the tea in China. I decided to give the present back, it was as good as a chocolate teapot, and then leave that shop…!
Geogiana C.
I was being in park , when i saw the odd man. He was wearing with a long jacket and a black hat on his head. He's a bad egg. He goes to someone else. He spill the beans. He's not my cup of tea. Now, they leave elsewhere. I think that this man whoo got egg on his face is as good as a chocolate teapot.
ReplyDeleteRaluca C.
Long time ago, when the computers were at the beggining, a child who was full of beans bought one with the dream that he will be the best IT specialist ever.
ReplyDeleteAfter 20 years he hadn't got a bean. A bit after, a collector came to him and said that his computer is "ancient" and he'll give 200.000$ for it.
First, the boy said that he won't do it for all the tea in China, but because he was out of money, he put his eggs in one basket and the computer was as good as a chocolate tea pot, he accepted.
In the end the boy became rich, he made his own bussiness and the computer was donated to a museum.
Cosmin C.
It’s Saturday . I am in the capital , Bucharest . I go to the mall . I enter in a gigantic shop of china . Here were more than a thousand chinaware . The shop is magic . But there I got an egg on my face ,. I break a china . I haven’t got a bean . I spill the bean to the seller . He said that I can’t pay , I need to dust the chinaware . I wouldn’t do it for all the tea of China I need to do . A nice boy that was full of bean help me , but he isn’t my cup of tea .
ReplyDeleteAdina C.
I love the chocolate and when I eat the chocolate I`m full of beans because the sweets give me energy for thirty minutes.When I eat to much sweets I got egg on my face because after thirty minutes I`m very very tired.I love chocolate but sometimes the chocolate it`s not my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteMIHNEA.C
I like these idioms and I think are very useful. when i don't want to do something I use "I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China" and when someone don't have a second plan and his only plan breakdown I say to "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket". If someone is naughty or is disturbind "He's a bad egg" and when I'm not good at something "It's not my cup of tea". Sometimes i don't have any money so I haven't got any bean and when school is over I'm full of beans. So i think these idioms are useful
ReplyDeleteCalin C.
Yesterday I was full of beans and I wanted to went out with my friends. Nobody wanted so I decided to go to McDonald's to eat something, but i haven't got a bean. After this one of my friends called me to go to a football, but i didn't go because i knew he is a bad egg.
ReplyDeleteSo yesterday I stayed home and I didn't nothing because football is not my cup of tea.
Mario C.
Calina's comment -funny ; great context
ReplyDeleteMalina's -a little too short , but all right
Georgi- great and developed context ; pay attention to tenses, anyway!!!
Raluca -uninspired context ; unclear situation ; grammar mistakes : (
Cosmin - more idioms should have been used
Adina -grammar rules are not your cup of tea
Mihnea -good try but not enough idioms
Calin -look at the other examples of well-chosen contexts; you have NOT created contexts except for the end
Mario-not enough idioms and grammar ...is missing
"I" should be written with capital letter all the time !
Remind me to talk about indirect speech again with you !!!