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6 Easter Bunny Jokes
8 Fingers’ Grammar Clinic -
“Just” and “Only”
10 Quiz – what’s your attitude to smoke?
13 Funny Product Labels
33 Phrasal Verbs: To Pull
34 British Bar Chat
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To “have” or not t o “have”
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In this month’s grammar fun section we’ll be looking at the difference between “to have” as a verb, and “have” as an auxiliary
The verb “to have”
We can use the verb to have to talk about possession For example:
a) I have twenty cars
b) She has a cat and a dog
c) They have a new computer
In negatives and questions, we use the auxiliaries “do/does/did”
For example:
a) I didn’t have a good time
b) She doesn’t have a mobile phone
c) They don’t have the money right now
There are many, many expressions with the verb to “have”
Here are a few of them:
a) To have a shower = I had a shower yesterday
b) To have an argument with someone (to have a verbal fight) =
My sister and I had an argument
c) To have a heart of gold (to be a good person) = He has a heart
of gold
d) To have a lot on your plate (to have a lot of work to do) =
She has a lot on her plate
“Have” as an auxiliary
“Have” can also be used as an auxiliary We can use it in present
perfect and present perfect continuous sentences We often use the
contracted form For example:
a) I have been here before
b) She has been talking on the phone for six minutes
c) They have been waiting for you
We can also use “have” in perfect sentences with modal verbs, and
in third conditional sentences For example:
a) You should have gone to the party – it was really good b) They must have been the ones who did it
c) I would have gone to the party if you had invited me
We can also use the verb to “have” to make passive tions We often use this construction to talk about things that are repaired or fixed by someone else The construction is often formed with “have” + the object + a past participle For example:
construc-a) She took her car to the garage to have it repaired
b) They took their jackets to the cleaners to have them cleaned c) We had this house designed by a world-famous architect d) The dentist said I will have my tooth pulled out
You will have three teeth taken out.
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5 What did the Easter Bunny study at university? _
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7 Why was the Easter Bunny so upset? _
8 What do rabbits do after their wedding? _
9 How do you catch the Easter Bunny? _
10 How many chocolate bunnies can you put into an empty
Easter basket? _
11 What do you call a rabbit that tells good jokes? _
12 How do bunnies stay healthy? _
J: With hare spray
K: With a hare dryer
L: He was having a bad hare day.
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fur n
the thick hair some animals have on their bodies
to dry yourself exp
to use a towel to take water off your body
a bad “hare” day n
a bad hair day – a day when everything goes badly
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understand the difference between “just” and “only”
Please, please, please, please, please, please help me,
Mr Murat Ratchet (by e-mail)
Dear Mr Ratchet,
Thank you so much for your e-mail Of course, I would be delighted to
answer your question OK, let’s go
“Just” and “Only”
There are many cases when “just” and “only” are more or less synonyms
For example:
1 To say that something isn’t important:
a) It’s just a suggestion
b) It’s only a suggestion
2 To emphasize that you are talking about a small part of something
and not the whole For example:
a) This is just one example of his poor behaviour
b) This is only one example of his poor behaviour
3 To show how one action made a situation even worse For example:
a) Trying to talk to her just made things worse
b) Trying to talk to her only made things worse
4 We can use “only” or “just” to how easy something is We often use
this with the verb “to have” For example:
a) You only have to press this button and the machine will work
b) You just have to press this button and the machine will work
Only
Now let’s look at some exclusive examples of “only”
1 We tend to use “only” to say that one thing is true or necessary in
a particular situation, in contrast to all the other things that are not true “Only” usually appears at the start of the sentence For example:
a) Only Mrs Jenkins is permitted to take money out of the bank b) Only two people know the code for the safe
2 “Only” is also used in some expressions such as “only if” or “only when” These are used to talk about exceptions For example: a) She is paid only if she completes the work
b) He’ll tell us only when he’s ready
3 “Only” can also be used to mean “but” For example:
a) I would help you, only it’s going to take too long
b) She would take you home, only it’s a bit late and she’s tired
Just
And finally, let’s see some exclusive examples of “just”
1 We use “just” to say that something happened a very short time ago, particularly with the present perfect For example:
a) I have just arrived
b) She has just started working on it
2 We can use “just as” to say that something is happening at exactly the same moment as something else For example:
a) Mike arrived just as Jane was preparing to leave
b) The train left just as I got to the station
3 We can use “just” for emphasis and to show that we are angry, annoyed, surprised, certain, etc For example:
a) I just knew you’d be here
b) She just knew it had to be you who played the joke on her
4 We often use “just” with instructions to show how something is less difficult than you might think For example:
a) Just add water
b) Just be patient, and it’ll be OK
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smoking What do you say?
a) Excuse me, would you mind not smoking here?
b) That’s a nice smell What brand of cigarette is it?
c) The choice is yours: put it out, or I’ll put you out
2 You’re in a restaurant in the non-smoking area Someone on the
table next to yours is smoking, and the smoke is drifting onto your
table What do you do?
a) I just ignore it – they are in the smoking area after all
b) I do my best to inhale the smoke – it’s like smoking for free
c) I start talking loudly about some disgusting medical operation
in an attempt to put them off their food If that doesn’t work, I
start flicking bits of lettuce at them
3 You’re walking down the street when an elderly man with a cigarette
accidentally burns a hole in your jacket What do you say?
a) Don’t worry I’m sure you didn’t mean to do it
b) You haven’t got a spare fag, have you?
c) Give me that cigarette: I’m going to burn three holes in your
jacket
4 You’re in the waiting room at the dentist’s You are about to have
a filling without an anaesthetic What are you doing?
a) I’m counting slowly to myself, waiting for my time to come
b) I’m chain smoking in the toilet
c) I’m breathing in and out deeply, trying to relax
5 You’re in a lift when a young woman lights up What do you do?
a) I remind her of the dangers of fire, and how she could endanger
the lives of others in the building
b) I light one up too
c) I use my hands to make large, violent movements in an attempt
to fan the smoke away
6 You’ve been out all night with friends in smoky bars What’s the
first thing you do when you get home?
a) I put on my pyjamas and go to bed
b) I use my jacket as a pillow, which allows me to savour the sweet
smell of the tobacco while I go to sleep
c) I take off all my clothes and hang them outside to air them
Then I have a shower and scrub myself clean until all trace of the
tobacco has disappeared
7 You’ve just been to the gym What’s the first thing you do when
you get out?
a) I go home and watch some TV
b) I go to a bar, order a coffee and smoke 6 cigarettes
c) I go for a brisk walk home to slow down my heart rate
8 What’s your idea of a day out in the country?
a) Driving around where I can enjoy the scenery from the comfort
of my car
b) Spending the afternoon in a country village, drinking, eating
and smoking lots of cigarettes
c) Hiking in the hills and mountains, just generally enjoying the
to put someone out phr vb
literally, to move someone outside
to drift vb i f smoke “drifts” over to you, it is carried there
by the wind/air, etc
the smoking area n
an area in a restaurant where you can smoke
to do your best exp
to make a big effort
to inhale vb
to breathe in
loudly adv
in a loud and strong voice
to put someone off their food exp
to say something that makes someone not like their food
a small amount of metal that they put in your
teeth when you have a bad tooth
to fan the smoke away exp
to make the smoke go away by moving your hands
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Here’s another part in our series on funny food labels Some food companies
seem to think we don’t have a brain!
On a condom vending machine: “Warning: do not drive while using
this product.”
But that’s all part of the fun, isn’t it?
On a potted plant: “Do not eat leaves, stem, roots or soil.”
But what about the pot?
On a portable CD player: “Warning: warning inside.”
So, is it safe to open it so I can read it?
On a bottle of a cleaning product: “Warning: avoid contact with brain.”
So how do I clean inside my head then?
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a food label n
a piece of paper on a product with
informa-tion about that product
a chainsaw n
an electrical device for cutting trees It has
a section with metal “teeth”
a roll of plastic you need to put in a camera
in order to take photos
to run out of something exp
to have no more of a thing
On the package of an
un-derwater camera: “Do not
change film underwater.”
So what do I do if I run
out of film?
On a Swedish chainsaw: “Do
not attempt to stop chain with your hands or any other part of your body.”
So how can I stop it then?
On the package
for a small
make-up kit: “Do not
apply to living creatures.”
But my bulldog won’t leave the house without
any rouge on!
On a packet of nuts:
“Instructions:
Open packet, eat nuts.”
Oh, and I was planning
to do something completely different
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in a shop buying things
fighting n
arguing; shouting at one another
upset adj
sad and angry
to leave someone exp
the main entrance n
the door that you enter in order to go into
charged with exp
if you are “charged with” something, you are accused of that thing
Christmas shopping n
buying presents for people in order to give them at Christmas
Story Time
Jokes, stories and anecdotes as told by native English speakers
In this section you can hear native English speakers telling each other jokes
Early Shopper
Jim is on trial for robbery Luckily, it’s Christmas time and the
judge is in a merry mood She asks the defendant, “So, young
man, what are you charged with?”
“Doing my Christmas shopping a bit early,” Jim replies.
“Well, that’s not a crime,” the judge says, looking around at the
lawyers present
“I know,” says Jim
“Just out of interest,” the judge asks, “how early were you doing
this shopping then?” And Jim replies, “A few hours before the
store opened.”
Bad Relationship
Two men, Jim and Jeff, are out shopping when they start to discuss
their lives Jim says, “Jane and I seem to be fighting all the time
these days I’ve been so upset I’ve lost 5 kilos.”
And Jeff asks, “Why don’t you just leave her then?”
”Oh, no! Not yet,” Jim replies, “Before I do that, I want to lose at
least another three kilos.”
The Competition
Jane has been running a local store for twenty years Everyone in
the area goes there for their milk, bread and fruit and vegetables
However, one day, a new shop, selling exactly the same products,
opens to the right of Jane’s shop And just above the shop door,
there’s a huge sign which read “BEST DEALS”
Jane is horrified But things get worse The next day, another
com-petitor opens up a shop just to the left of Jane’s store And there’s
an even larger sign that reads “LOWEST PRICES”
At first, Jane panics, but then she has a great idea The next day,
she puts up the biggest sign of all over her own shop saying, “Main
entrance to all shops here”.
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This is the first in a mini-series on giving business
presentations In this dialogue, Brenda, a saleswoman
for an international baby-care company, is explaining
the benefits of a new product for babies She’s having
a few problems from a heckler Listen to the dialogue
and answer these questions
1 What is Brenda presenting in her talk?
2 What features does her product have?
Brenda: Hi, my name is Brenda Deipeur, from XYZ
Baby-Systems Corporation First of all, I’d
just like to thank you all for coming along
today I know you’re all very busy, so I’ll do
my best to make it as brief as possible
Heckler: Get on with it!
Brenda: Well, today I’m going to be telling you all
about our latest range of nappies
Heckler: Get off!
Brenda: And I’ll be explaining some of the key
bene-fits associated with our range of products,
and offering some free samples for you to
try out with your existing clients
Heckler: Boring!
Brenda: Well, I can see we’ve got a few jokers in
the audience today Please, if you have any
questions, keep them to the end, when I’ll
be happy to answer any queries
Heckler: Come on!
Brenda: Well, that gentleman certainly seems to have
a lot to say I’d better stick to the point
otherwise we’ll be running out of time
Heckler: Oh, what a pity!
Brenda: Well, the principal innovative feature of
our product comes from the use of materials
including polypropylene, polyester, and
poly-ethylene, which are all designed to enhance
the fit of the nappy and help stop leaks
Heckler: Are you wearing a nappy!
Brenda: Yes, very funny Well, as you can see our
extra elastic strands help create a nice snug
fit for baby and this really helps when…
(Fades out.)
Useful Business Expressions - Starting a presentation
Hi, my name is X, and I’m from X company
In this talk/presentation I’m going to be telling you about X
The objective of this talk/presentation is to…
This talk is all about X
If you have any questions, please keep them to the end
I’ll take questions at the end
Listen to this dialogue and learn lots of useful business vocabulary and expressions
an interesting or important part of something
get on with it! exp
be quick! Stop being so slow!
latest adj
most recent
a nappy n
clothing a baby wears around its bottom
get off! exp
come on! exp
be faster! speak quicker!
to stick to the point exp
to keep talking about the topic; not to start talking about something else
to run out of time exp
to have no more time to do something
what a pity exp
1 I’m going to be telling you our latest range of nappies
2 There will be some free samples to try _
3 I’d better stick _ the point
4 We are running _ of time
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BUSINESS DIALOGUES
Boring!
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in business, these words are still very important for you at work and in life in general In this
lesson, you’ll learn some of the most common business terms in English This is the first part of
a new series Learn the words, then use them in your daily life!
THE TOP 100 BUSINESS WORDS IN ENGLISH
An entrepreneur
4
An “entrepreneur” is someone who
starts and runs their own business
very successfully For example:
A: Who is Paul Kerry?
B: He’s a successful entrepreneur
who made a lot of his money in
the property market
A: How much tax do we have to pay
on the sale of the property?
B: Nothing, as the final amount was under £100,000, and the first
A: We sold over £40,000 in fitness
equipment last month.
B: That’s good, but we need to sell
double that amount to make a
To run
3
If you “run” a business, you manage, direct and control it For example:
A: So, tell me a bit about Jenny Smith
B: Well, she’s a Harvard graduate who runs six businesses
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the company, “authorises” something,
they give their official permission for it
to happen For example:
A: I’d like to cash a cheque for
£20,000, please
B: I’m afraid I’ll need to get a manager
to authorise that amount
A document with details about a job or
service, with the corresponding costs
An invoice can be sent before the
work is carried out, or after it has been
completed For example:
A: Could you send us an invoice for the
work you did on the house, please?
B: Yes, sure, I’ll send it later this week
A written document saying how much you owe for the goods or services you bought It’s often used as a demand for immediate payment [Compare to
“invoice”.] For example:
A: Have we paid the electricity bill yet?
B: No, not yet, but I’ll do it first thing tomorrow morning
A product with a very distinctive symbol, logo,
name, colour, word or slogan A combination
of these elements is often used to create the brand image For example:
A: Why do you think the company is
so successful?
B: Because they have a very good reputation and a strong brand image
A “commission” is a payment to
someone who sells goods, often as
a percentage of the amount they’ve
sold For example:
A: Did you get any commission
for the washing machines you
sold last month?
B: Yes, I got 15% for every machine
I sold!
A “purchase” is something that you buy It is both a noun and a verb (to purchase) For example:
A: Where can customers buy the clothes?
B: They can purchase them from our online shop
A: Can we reclaim the tax on the equipment we bought?
B: Yes, the tax on all purchases of medical equipment can be reclaimed
A reduction in the usual price
“Discount” can be a noun and a verb
(to discount) For example:
A: How much does each machine cost?
B: There’s a 10% discount this month
if you order more than 10 That
works out at £140 per machine
An “agenda” is a list of the things to talk about in a meeting For example:
A: What’s on the agenda for today’s meeting?
B: I think we’re discussing last year’s sales figures
Money in the form of notes (paper money) and coins (metal money) Also,
if you “cash” a cheque, you give the cheque to a bank clerk and they give you the amount in money For example:
A: Would you like to pay by cash or credit card?
B: Cash, please
1 The process of sending bills to clients so they can pay the money they owe For example:
A: How’s the new billing software?
B: It’s great I sent out all the bills in record time this month
2 “Billing” can also refer to all the sales
of goods or services by a company during
a particular period For example:
A: I need to know how much we’ll be
billing next month, more or less
B: OK, I’ll send the projected monthly billing amount later this afternoon
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to work out atexp
if something “works out” at a particular amount of money, it is that amount after you consider all the facts and figures
to carry outexp
if you “carry out” a job or task, you do it
distinctiveadj
something “distinctive” has a quality or feature that makes it very different or special, and you can recognise it easily
You can have a personal budget,
a department budget, a company budget, a state budget… For example:
A: We should organise a party for all the staff this Christmas
B: I don’t think there’s enough money
in the budget for a party this year
Budget
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1 A tax on the amount of money that you earn from
2 Money in the form of notes (paper money) and coins
5 If a manger or someone high up in the company does
this, they give their official permission for something
6 A list of the things to talk about in a meeting = an
7 A word that can refer to the total value of all the
sales by a company during a particular period = the
8 An amount expressed in numbers = a
9 An amount of money you pay to the government
based on your salary, or the cost of goods or services
you have bought =
10 A reduction in the usual price for something = a
4 I get 15% for every machine I sell
5 The client has asked us to send an for the work we completed last week
6 She’s the owner of five successful companies – she’s
7 I don’t think there’s enough money in the
for a party this year
8 Have you paid the electricity yet? I think
we were supposed to pay it sometime last week.
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Trang 20The actual date of Easter changes every year
Most churches set Easter as the first Sunday
after a full moon on or following the Spring
Equinox (21st March) This means Easter
Sunday can be as early as the third week
in March or as late as the fourth week in
April This year (2006) it’s in the second
week in April
Religious Traditions
So what does Easter celebrate? According to Christian tradition, Easter
marks the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ He was crucified
on what is known as Good Friday, and was resurrected three days later
on Easter Sunday (for more information on this topic, visit: http://www
religioustolerance.org/resurrec1.htm)
Officially, Easter marks the end of the period of Lent that begins on Ash
Wednesday The last week of Lent is celebrated as Holy Week and begins
with Palm Sunday This was the day that Jesus came into Jerusalem as
the crowds laid palms at his feet Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
celebrates Jesus’ Last Supper
Pagan Traditions
In pagan times, Easter was a special period It was the celebration
of the end of winter – a time to look to the warmth of the coming summer
The actual name, Easter, comes from “Ostara” or
“Eostre”, the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring In pagan times an annual spring festival was held in her honour
Eggs
For many people in English-speaking and northern European countries,
Easter is all about eggs In the very early days, eggs were used as
symbols of fertility Traditionally, eggs were decorated with bright
col-ours to represent the coming of spring, and the growth of new plants
Different countries have different traditions for their egg decoration
People from Slavic countries prefer to paint theirs in gold and silver
In Greece they use red to represent the blood of Christ And in parts of
Germany and Austria they paint their eggs green These days, children
often decorate eggs at school as part of the Easter celebrations And
in shops, you can buy brightly-coloured chocolate eggs
Egg Games There are lots of games associated with eggs The two most
common ones are the Easter Egg Hunt and the Easter Egg
Roll For the Egg Hunt an adult hides lots of eggs (often chocolate eggs) in the garden The children then see who can find the most eggs The Egg Roll consists of seeing who can roll a real egg the furthest distance down a hill without it breaking Some say that the tradition of rolling Easter eggs is representative of the rolling away of the rock from the tomb of Jesus
The Easter Bunny Another symbol associated with Easter is the rabbit (or “bunny” as
it is commonly known) Parents tell their children that it’s the Easter Bunny who comes to bring them chocolate eggs, and who hides them
in the garden for the Easter Egg Hunt Children also get little chocolate Easter bunnies to eat
The first use of the bunny as a symbol of Easter appears in Germany
in the 1500s Not surprisingly, it was also the Germans who made the
first edible Easter Bunnies in the 1800s The Pennsylvania Dutch took
the Easter Bunny to the United States in the 1700s, and it’s been there ever since
Other Easter SymbolsOther symbols associated with Easter include the Easter bonnet, and the Easter basket Bonnets are basically hats that are dec-orated with flowers They come from the days when people wore plain clothes during Lent, then celebrated the end of Lent by wearing something nice, new and bright There’s another tradition that says that the wearing of three new things at Easter will bring you good luck in the coming year The Easter basket started from the ancient custom of taking Easter food to church so it could be
blessed So, what will you be
do-ing for Easter?
What do you do at Easter? For some it’s a Christian festival that marks the death of Christ For others, it’s
a chance to eat lots of chocolate Find out more about Easter in English-speaking countries
A holiday with a variety of meanings.
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Information Box – The Jewish Passover
Another important religious festival around Easter time is the
Passover feast This is an important date in the Jewish
calen-dar It celebrates the flight and freedom of the Israelites from
Egypt Legend says that the Angel of Death “passed over” their
dwellings, offering them protection
One of the things ated with the holiday is the eating of “matzoh”,
associ-which is unleavened
bread They say this is in
memory of the bread the Israelites ate at the time
of the Exodus: in their
rush to leave Egypt, they
did not have time for the
bread to rise.
In the past, Christians celebrated both holidays together
the Spring Equinox n
a time in spring (March/April, etc) when day
and night are the same length
a period of time in the Christian calendar
be-fore Easter It’s a time when you are supposed
to control your eating, etc
to lay something at someone’s feet exp
to put something on the ground near
some-one’s feet
a palm n
a tree that grows in the desert
the Last Supper n
the last dinner that Jesus had before he was captured by the Romans
that you can eat
to bless something exp
when a priest “blesses” something, he/she asks God to protect that thing
flight n
the act of escaping
unleavened bread n
bread that hasn’t risen (become higher)
in their rush to do something exp
as they were trying to do something quickly
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Trang 22More than one billion Easter eggs are hunted in the United States each
year in parks and gardens
Americans spend 2 billion dollars on Easter sweets and chocolate Easter
eggs, and eat 3 billion kilos of Easter candy each year
According to a recent survey, most children (74%) eat the ears of their
chocolate bunny first 16% eat the feet first, and the rest prefer the tail
Every Easter, more than 60 million chocolate bunnies are sold, and 118
million cards are sent
The most famous Egg Rolls and Egg Hunts take place at the White House
in Washington DC In 1878 President Hayes and his wife Lucy officially
opened the White House grounds to the children of the area for egg rolling
on Easter Monday The event has been held on the South Lawn ever since
Afterwards, children hunt for brightly coloured wooden eggs hidden in
hay Many of these eggs have been signed by famous people, including
the athletes, astronauts, musicians, and celebrities from film, television,
and theatre who visit the White House during the year
The most famous decorated Easter eggs were those made by the
well-known goldsmith, Peter Carl Faberge In 1883 the Russian Czar,
Alex-ander, commissioned Faberge to make a special Easter gift for his wife,
the Empress Marie This egg was an egg within an egg It had an outside
shell of platinum which opened to reveal a smaller golden egg The
smaller egg, in turn, opened to display a golden chicken and a jeweled
replica of the Imperial crown
This special Faberge egg so delighted the Czarina that the Czar promptly
ordered the Faberge firm to design further eggs to be delivered every
Easter In later years Nicholas II, Alexander’s son, continued the custom
Fifty-seven eggs were made in all
Ham has come to be the traditional favourite for Easter dinner In
pre-re-frigeration days, pigs were slaughtered in the autumn and cured for six
to seven months – just in time for Easter dinner
The white lily is the special Easter flower, and is said to be the symbol
of the resurrection These days, most lily growers are located along the
California-Oregon border in an area known as the “Easter Lily Capital of
the World” They produce 95 percent of all bulbs for the Easter lily market
In China there is a celebration called Ching Ming which takes place at the same time as the Western tradition
of Easter Chinese families visit the graves of their
ancestors and take along meals and sweets
Laying eggs takes 24-26 hours according to research from
the University of Illinois-Urbana Even the best chickens
can only lay one egg a day
The first battery bunny to appear in adverts was the Duracell bunny The
Energizer Bunny appeared later and was a parody of the Duracell bunny toys Alice’s adventures in the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” begin when she meets the White Rabbit She first notices him saying to himself,
“Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”
In the Eminem movie 8 Mile, Eminem plays Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, Jr Bob Hoskins starred in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a film which combines
animation and live action
Hugh Heffner (creator of adult magazine Playboy), chose a bunny as Playboy’s logo He said, “I chose the bunny because of the humorous
sexual connotation, and because he offered an image that was frisky and playful I put him in a tuxedo to add the idea of sophistication… the notion of a rabbit dressed up in formal evening attire struck me as
charming, amusing and right.”
Frank Sinatra once dated former Playboy Bunny Marianna Case
The 1992 film City Hunter, a comedy kung-fu movie starring Jackie Chan,
takes place in a casino onboard a luxury cruise ship, and features real Playboy Bunny waitresses
The film Animal House (1978) has a scene with Bunnies on a Playboy float
during a parade All of a sudden one of the Bunnies is propelled off the
float, through a house window, and onto the bed of a young boy, who’s
in the middle of reading a copy of Playboy magazine The boy gratefully
exclaims, “Thank you, God!”
The two films Legally Blonde (2001) and Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) both
have scenes in which the lead characters (Reese Witherspoon and Renee Zellweger respectively) arrive at a party wearing Bunny Girl costumes
Learn some fascinating facts about Easter, rabbits and eggs
a person who makes things with gold
to commission something exp
to pay someone to make something for you
to lay an egg exp
if a chicken “lays an egg”, an egg comes out of it
formal evening attire n
clothing that you wear for formal occasions
to strike you as something exp
to appear to be something to you
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