Idioms – A piece of cake

Today’s new idiom is a piece of cake, that is, easy as 123.

Watch this video to understand it clearly.

 

Now, write an example to practise it.

Idioms - To Break the Ice

Do you know what idioms are in English? They are fixed expressions that have a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. Similar to our Spanish refranes.

Today's new idiom is To break the ice.

Let's watch a video to learn its meaning.

Now, it is your turn to put your creativity into practice and give an example using the new idiom you've learnt.

The story of the Jack O’Lantern

Jack, it seems, was a bad man. He kept all his money to himself. He didn’t help people for all of his life.

When Jack died, he wasn't allowed into Heaven because he was such a miser: a person who didn’t share his money.

It seems that Jack also had played tricks on the Devil, who didn’t let him into hell, either.

Jack was stuck. He had to walk the earth, holding a lantern, until Judgment Day.

This is the story handed down by the Irish people who went to America in the 1800s. They carved their turnips into the face of "Jack-of-the-lantern" to remind themselves what happened to people who were misers. And in the fall, pumpkins are much easier to find than turnips.

So that's why Americans today carve their pumpkins into Jack O’Lanterns.

Glossary:

Heaven: cielo

To play tricks on somebody: Engañar a alguien

Stuck: atascado

Hand down: transmitir, legar

Carve: tallar

Turnip: nabo

Fall (American English): otoño

Have you ever carved a Jack O'Lantern?

How do you usually celebrate Halloween here?