- I will start the story with a sentence then the class must make up the rest of the story.
WHAT HAVE WE INVENTED OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS What do you think-------- will be like? TV’S PEOPLE MONEY CARS TRAVEL
If you were lost in the desert, and you can choose only five of the following items, what would you choose, and why?
- Food for two days
- Rope
- Knife
- Torch
- Tent/shelter
- Mobile Phone (with one call left)
- Water
- Petrol/gas
- Alcohol
- Blankets
- Candles
- Matches
- Umbrella
- Cigarettes
- Sweater
- Shoes
- Money
Want to ? wanna Let me - lemmi Going to ? gonna Give me - gimme Ought to ? oughtta What have - whatav Because ? 'cause Could have - couldav A lot of ? lotta Should have - shouldav See you ? see ya Would have - wouldav Got to ? gotta Couldav, shouldav, wouldav
Make a sentence using four English shorts
INTRODUCTIONS
STRUCTURE YOUR INTRODUCTION ? WHAT TO DISCUSS
ASK STUDENTS TO LISTEN AND HIGHLIGHT THE ORIGINAL OR UNIQUE ASPECT ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION GESTURES, EYE CONTACT, POSTURE.
DISCUSSION TOPICS ? GHOSTS SAMPLE PART TWO QUESTIONS ? HOW TO STRUCTURE ANSWERS TOTHESE QUESTIONS ? INTRO, BODY AND CONCLUSION
DUMMY RUN ON PART THREE QUESTION
- SLANG
Slang is the common usage of words to describe situation in a concise manner.
Here are some examples of slang, can you tell me:
- What you think they mean in the context given?
- Can you use the slang in another example?
glitch: flaw. "There must be a glitch in this software." go bananas: go slightly mad. "This project is causing me to go bananas!" knock: condemn. "Don't knock it unless you've tried it." mellow: relaxed. "I'm feeling very mellow this evening." puss: the face. "My girlfriend slapped me right on the puss."
What are Generalisations? Statements or opinions, which, are only partly true because they are based on a few cases or incomplete knowledge. I will give you certain generalizations, and I want you to discuss whether they have a valid base or are true in some respect.
- Footballers are not clever
- Men are bad at languages
- Maths is for clever people
- Top sports stars have less worries than most workers
- Artists are different from most people
Can you think of some more generalizations?
Christmas is… Spring festival is… My best friend is… Going abroad for holidays is… I once dreamt that… The weekend is… China is… My boyfriend/girlfriend is/will be…
What do you think this quote means, in your own words: There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder, "What just happened?"
A SEGEMENT OF A BOOK BY ANDY PATERSON Title: “English is easy” labor ? work laborious ? hard work, working with difficulty laborer - worker collaborate ? work with others collaboration collaborative elaborate ? to work or describe in finer detail elaboration laboratory ? a place where work may be conducted for scientific research.
Leg, lect, lig - to read, choose i.e. collect, dialectics, elect, electorate, election, intellect, intellectual, lecture, legend, legacy, library. literate, literature illiterate, recollect, select Loca ? in that place: (verb) locate, dislocate, relocate (noun), local, location, locale (area), (adverb) locally Locut, loqu - to speak i.e. eloquent (speak well), loquacious (talks a lot) Luc, lumin - light to see by i.e. elucidate, lucid, lucidity, illuminate, illustrious, illustrate, luminous, luster, lustrous, translucent,
like - (v) to want, to love like - (adjective) similar, almost the same or the same (as a comparison) alike - adj. so similar as to be the same. likelihood - strong potential for something to happen. likable - able to like, friendly, amiable, agreeable, pleasing likely - probably, possibly, unlikely - not very possible or probable unlikable - disagreeable, rude, or disgusting
memo ? to bring to mind. Something written for the record. To remind one commemorate ? to give tribute to someone, something, or past deed memoirs ? a narrative from someone’s personal experience memorabilia ? items that evoke memories of things gone by mementos memorandum ? (a is plural) informally written note used within an organization memorial ? a service convened for remembering the dead. A monument to the dead memorize - the action or doing that commits something to memory memory ? to recall or reproduce that which has been learned or retained in the brain. remembrance ? something that serves to keep in mind someone or something remember ? to bring to mind, to recall again remembrance ? “Do this in remembrance of me.”
Merge, mers - (to put under) emerge, emergency, immerse, merger, reemerge, reemergence, submerge, submersible,
mit, mis (to carry, to bear) admit ? v. to confess, permit to enter, acknowledge, confess: admissible admission commit ? v. agree to carry out. Commitment (n) a contractual or verbal promise committee ? n. .a group given the responsibility to carry out (manage) a project emit ? v. to let out emission (n) the act of emitting emissary (n) one on a mission dismiss ? v. to fire someone from a job, send away, permit to leave dismissal mission ? n. a group sent to a foreign country on a diplomatic or religious errand permit ? v. to allow permissible permissive permission ? n. authorization remit ? v. to send back in remission ? n. return to its normal state of being submit ? to yield to authority, to propose a plan submission (n) the act of submitting transmit or transmit ? v. to send across transmission (v) the act of sending across
Mon, monit (to give warning) admonish, monitor, monster, premonition, remonstrate Mov, mot, mob (to move) move, motive, motion, mobile, mobilize, mobilization, automobile, momentum, motivate, motivation, remove
Mut (to change) mutation, mutual, mutilate, mutant, mitosis, transmutation, Nounce (speak publicly) announce, denounce, mispronounce, pronounce, renounce,
pel, pell, puls (to push, to drive) compel - force to do something compulsive (behavior) - inner drive, urge compulsion - to pressure, force, or urge to do something dispel - drive away, dissipate expel - to throw out expulsion impel - to feel like one is being pushed into doing something propel - thrust forward propulsion ? to push forward propeller - an instrument/tool that pulls or pushes forward pulse - the flow (push) of blood pulsation - the act or feel of a pulse (heartbeat) repel - force back, repulsive - disgusting, arousing aversion repellent - something that turns away something else
Part ? to separate, cut into pieces, to divide, say goodbye) apartment, compartment, compartmentalize, depart, departure, department, impart, inter-departmental, partial (not compete), partiality ( participate, participle, particle (atomic sub-particles), partisan
pend - hang down, attach to append ? attach to (antonym ? detached) appendage ? attached but hanging i.e. tail, elephant’s trunk, the male sex organs appendix ? attached to the colon and dangling on the left in the abdomen pendant ? a piece of jewelry that dangles or hung pending - something not yet decided upon, left hanging without clear-cut decision pendulum - a hanging object that swings back and forth suspend ? hanging from something (i.e. suspended ceiling) suspension ? (i.e. suspension bridge) suspenders ? men’s apparel used to hold up pants suspense ? a feeling of uncertainty or dangling in the air, doubt,
ply ? to fold (note, simply is not of this derivation but is an adverbial form of simple.) apply - ad + plicare to put forth. applicant (one who applies) application (a petition for approval), aplicable - pertaining to or to be applied toward comply - conforming to some else’s wishes. To be supple toward, not opposing. imply - to infer or express indirectly (not openly or directly) misapply - to apply wrongly or incorrectly. “He misapplied the medicine.”
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