Author Archives: Irma
Do you want to get away…?
Learn English with Manuel!
Stockings? Crackers? MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Christmas Stocking Presents
Christmas Day is the favourite day for children. They wake up very early in the morning to find their stockings have been filled by Father Christmas and excitedly unwrap the presents before going down to breakfast.

An ANIMAL idiom today…
Birds of a feather flock together…
… which means people who have similar characters or similar interests will often choose to spend time together
I saw the boy who stole my bag with that gang of trouble makers last night – well, birds of a feather flock together, they say.
Attention with the S-C
ADVISE verb /ədˈvaɪs/
[I or T] to give someone advice
His doctor advised him against smoking.
A joke
An English professor wrote the words, “a woman without her man is nothing” on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: “A woman, without her man, is nothing.”
The women wrote: “A woman: without her, man is nothing.”
Perspective is everything!
Some tongue twisters
One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.
When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. You can write good and copyright but copyright doesn’t mean copy good – it might not be right good copy, right?
Some Christmas jokes
Knock Knock
– Who’s there ?
Holly
– Holly who ?
Holly-days are here again !
What did Adam say on the day before Christmas ?
It’s Christmas, Eve!
How can a snowman lose weight?
He waits until it gets warmer
What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
Snowflakes!