Monday, December 20, 2010

Can you fix these signs?



Can you find the mistakes in these 2 signs seen on Tenerife in Puerto Santiago? Send your Virtualingua tutor corrections for these signs! (tutor@virtualingua.de) If you are a student with us already, this counts as a tutored exercise, if not, test our tutoring for free!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Christmas is coming...

...so I thought we could have some Christmas fun and I'd share some of my favorite Christmas songs with you!

For today we have

Country - Irish Rovers - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (Christmas songs)

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Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walking home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

She'd been drinkin' too much egg nog
And we'd begged her not to go
But she'd left her medication
So she stumbled out the door into the snow

When they found her Christmas mornin'
At the scene of the attack
There were hoof prints on her forehead
And incriminatin' Claus marks on her back

Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

Now we're all so proud of Grandpa
He's been takin' this so well
See him in there watchin' football
Drinkin' beer and playin' cards with cousin Belle

It's not Christmas without Grandma
All the family's dressed in black
And we just can't help but wonder
Should we open up her gifts or send them back?

Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

Now the goose is on the table
And the pudding made of pig
And a blue and silver candle
That would just have matched the hair in Grandma's wig

I've warned all my friends and neighbors
Better watch out for yourselves
They should never give a license
To a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves

Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walkin' home from our house, Christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe!

  1. Why do Grandpa and the grandson now believe in Santa Claus?
  2. What date is Christmas eve?
  3. Define these words: run over, egg nog, beg, stumble, incriminating, wig, watch out, sleigh
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