Hi welcome back to love English and
Happy Easter from the beach! How exciting is this?
This is Bournemouth beach- this is a very pretty place
lots of places to study English here
absolutely so with such great weather we
took the opportunity to come down here
to film a very special Easter lesson for
you. Yes it is an Easter lesson guys this
is why we have the bunny ears on we're
not that crazy. We're going to explain
at the moment more than five idioms related to well
eggs and one bunnies yeah rabbits! But first
we thought we would just briefly explain
what we do here in the UK and actually
throughout Europe to celebrate Easter time- yes exactly
Now Easter time is the time of year that
Leila loves because it's the one time
of the year when she can eat chocolate
for breakfast and it's okay. I know the rest of the
time people just they have an issue with
that. I don't know what is wrong with chocolate for
breakfast. So it's a tradition in England
and I think across most of Europe to
give each other chocolate eggs which we
call Easter eggs and these are very
popular particularly with children they
like to eat many many chocolate eggs
Big children! And usually they then their quite often
sick. The whole idea behind the egg there
is some religious symbolism to this
obviously it's the idea of rebirth yeah
referring to the resurrection of Jesus
in Christianity and that is basically
why we celebrate here yeah so if you are
a christian Easter time is a really
important time for you and you will go
to Church at this time of year, however we
we celebrate Easter even if
we're not a Christian. Absolutely
yeah and then of course why do we what
about the bunny Sabrah? Tell us about the bunny at Easter. So the Easter bunny is
the one who brings the chocolate eggs to
the children and in some families your
parents might hide the eggs around the
garden or around the house
yeah get the kids running a little bit before
they eat all those calories yeah
absolutely burn them off, yeah now we're
going to give you five idioms now
related to Easter so with eggs and rabbits
So the first one I have for
you is to egg somebody on. Oh I like that
now this is where we encourage
somebody to do a bad thing so for example
Leila is always egging me on to eat
more. Eat more chocolate, you need a bigger ice cream Sabrah- this is what she is like
Very bad. We encourage them, usually it's
to do a bad thing it's got a negative
connotation it does yeah you could egg
someone on come on yes go on knock on that
person's door and runaway, those kind of things, and if it was a
really bad thing you might encourage
them to steal something like go on
Go and steal that- go and steal that
chocolate bar. Terrible and none of you would do that
The second idiom that we have for you is to
teach your grandmother to suck eggs very
strange really strange- who would do that?
It's definitely an advanced idiom guys
because it's a little bit complicated to
teach your grandmother to suck eggs
basically means you are teaching
somebody to do something they already
know so for example if i went to Sabrah's house
house and she was cooking paella i might
say oh Sabrah you need to add a little bit
of this and stir it like that and she know
I'd be like I'm the one with Spanish blood, you have
have Iranian blood don't tell me how to
cook a paella yeah yeah, So the third one is to
walk on eggshells now this is where we
need to be very careful around somebody
about what we say and what we do so it
doesn't upset them yes they might be
particularly sensitive or stressed they might be a
bit touchy so we have to be like ohhh
don't mention that to her or you might
say it's like walking on eggshells with
her because you feel very nervous that
you're going to upset them you think
about it to walk on eggshells you're
you're trying to walk without... crack! Usually
impossible to do
Great now number 4 is a lovely one
and a good piece of advice as well to
not put your eggs all in one basket yes
now this basically means that you should
give yourself lots of different
opportunities and choices so choosing
just one thing for example
Don't invest everything in one thing
So you had a great example actually Sabrah
had a good one- so if you're a single guy
or girl and you meet somebody and you
really really like them but you're not
sure about them you're just early stages
of getting to know each other but you
decide no I want to be with this person
I'm not going to speak to anyone else
I'm not going to date anybody else just
you. People might say oh be careful
you don't know them yet don't put all
your eggs in one basket yeah give
yourself options. There are plenty more fish
in the sea. Which you would know from Leila's
previous lesson on sea idioms okay so
next one we have right we love this one
This is very themed for us today
So this is where, if you're driving at night time in
the countryside it's quite common that an
animal might jump out in front of the
car like a rabbit for example and when
this happens the rabbit will look a bit like this because it is very shocked. Or a bit squashed on the road
You can't talk about squashed bunnies at Easter time - or with a vegetarian!
Ok so it basically means, so the idiom is
to look like a rabbit caught in the headlights.
To be a rabbit caught in the headlights and
it's where you look very shocked or very
worried about something something has
completely taken you by surprise and
you're like ...what! So an example
that you guys might relate to is when
you go to school or college wherever you
study and your teacher gives you a
surprise test yeah you might be very
worried about that and might be very
shocked, not a good thing. Right let's review those very
quickly now number one was to egg somebody on
to encourage somebody to do a bad thing
Come on do it do it...
Number two was to teach your
grandmother to suck eggs yes
to try and tell somebody how to do
something that they already know to
patronize them really yeah yeah number
3 was to walk on eggshells being
careful around somebody that's
particularly sensitive yeah so you don't
upset them to have to worry about not
offending them exactly yeah and next
one was don't put your eggs in one basket
don't bet or invest everything on one
thing not a good idea, and finally to look
like a rabbit caught in the headlights we've done that like three
times okay wow I think that is it from us
Yeah that is it from us for today, enjoy yourselves
guys don't eat too much chocolate
or maybe do, it is Easter time
Happy Easter everybody we'll see you soon
I think we're going to go and sunbathe
now have you got your bikini Leila? Yeah it is in the beach hut! See you later! Subscribe !!
Bye