Egg

Common expressions

  • boil / fry / scramble / poach an egg

  • break an egg

  • a chicken lays eggs

  • a hard-boiled / soft-boiled egg

  • a fried egg

  • scramble eggs

  • a dozen eggs

Exercise

Common expressions Match the halves:

    1. How long does it take to boil an egg? - g

  2. I fried myself an egg and a couple of rashers of bacon. - d

  3. I'd like to know how many eggs a chicken lays in a week. - b

  4. We had scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast. - c

  5. Can you get me half a dozen eggs, when you are at the supermarket? - f

  6. Do you like the yolk in your fried eggs hard or runny? - e

  7. Would you like your egg hard-boiled or soft-boiled? - a

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