10 Must-Know Idioms about Life - with Quizzes & Study Tips

Learn and master 10 idioms. Quizzes included. Study tips modeled. Two ChatGPT (AI) prompts offered.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:36 (Don’t) bite off more than you can chew.
1:06 a blessing in disguise
1:34 down and out; going through a rough patch
2:20 your back against the wall
3:11 roll with the punches
3:33 put your best foot forward
4:05 keep your head above the water
4:31 smooth sailing
5:00 flying high
5:47 Quiz 1
7:15 Quiz 2
8:12 Study tip #1 (with an AI prompt)
9:48 Study tip #2 (with an AI prompt)
12:00 Study tip #3 (my model story)
14:02 How to get more practice

ChatGPT prompt 1 to create a comprehension exercise:
I’m an English language learner. Imagine you are an experienced and very creative American English language teacher. Please create a 60-word text with these five idioms but omit at least one word in each idiom to create a gapped text that I can fill in for practice: (list 5 idioms)

ChatGPT prompt 2 to create questions for speaking/writing practice:
I’m an English language learner. Imagine you are an experienced and very creative American English language teacher. Please create five engaging discussion questions at the C1 level of proficiency. Each question must use one of these five idioms: (list them)