to be cut out for (something)

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 1,294 – Chaperoning a Field Trip.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 1,294. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

This episode is a dialogue between Rupi and Antonia about two people going with a group of students, two adults going with a group of younger students, to make sure that they behave, that they don’t do anything wrong on a field trip – a short trip, usually, from school to somewhere that is educationally interesting for students. Well, I’ll explain more when we get started. So let’s get started.

Rupi: I don’t think I’m cut out for this. How am I supposed to chaperone a class of students on a field trip?

Antonia: I thought you were gung-ho about being a chaperone for Nadia and the rest of her class on their trip to the children’s museum. That’s why you volunteered.

Rupi: I was,