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Tongue Twister TIMES ^_^
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? (In answer to the question “Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”) Perspicacious Polly Perkins purchased Peter’s…
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Simple British Slang Phrases YOU SHOULD START USING ^_^ – PART V
Catch flies: To sit with one’s mouth hanging open. Chav: An ignorant, trashy, lower-class person. Cheeky: Playfully impertinent. “Did you just whistle at that old lady? You cheeky monkey.” “Get stuffed!”: An angry rebuke, similar to “Go f*ck yourself!” Knackered: Exhausted. Aggro: Aggressive/in someone’s face. “Are you having a laugh?”: Statement of incredulity, like “you’ve got…
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Simple British Slang Phrases YOU SHOULD START USING ^_^ – PART VI
Slag: A contemptible person; possibly a promiscuous one. “Sod it.”: “I give up.” Used in a sentence: “I’ll never understand this math problem. Sod it, let’s go down to the pub.” Sprog: A child/offspring. Starkers: Naked. Balls-up: “Gone wrong”, as in a situation that hasn’t gone according to plan. Barmy: Crazy, insane. Bimble: An ambling walk.…
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Activities for Teaching the Future Perfect Progressive (PART II)
BY THE TIME Students work in pairs. Students starts by identifying a future time with the phrase “By the time…” + a sentence in the simple present. Student 2 completes the sentence with a main clause using the future prefect progressive. A complete sentence could be, “By the time I finish “War and Peace”, I…
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Activities for Teaching the Future Perfect Progressive (PART I)
MY EVIL TWIN Students imagine that they each have an evil twin, each person shares what his evil twin will have been doing up until a certain time today, this week, this month or this year. “My evil twin will have been hunting puppies until 5 P.M today” 10 YEARS FROM NOW What will your…
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Phrases Excellent Communicators Always Use At Work
According to a National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) survey, there is something missing. Effective communication skills are vital and are at the top of their list. They list the top 5: communication skills, analytical skills, teamwork skills, technical skills and strong work ethic that employers are looking for. Here are 5 phrases that…
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Activities for Teaching the Future Progressive (PART II)
PEOPLE PREDICTIONS What will people be doing in 100 years? Warm up by showing your students a clip from a science fiction program such Star Trek, Star Wars. Students make predictions about the future of our world using the future progressive A PREDICTABLE FUTURE Have each person in your class write down what he was doing each…
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Activities for Teaching the Future Progressive (PART I)
FUTURE CHANCE Write several future times on small slips of paper and put them in a hat. Have students draw a time from the hat and then tell what they will be doing at that time. DAILY HABITS Have your students write down what they do throughout a typical day and the times that they…
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Simple British Slang Phrases YOU SHOULD START USING ^_^ – PART IV
Moggy: Cat. Clanger: A mistake. Cock up: Make a mess of something. “He really cocked up his job interview when he mentioned that he’d shagged the boss’s daughter.” Gammy: Injured, lame, or painful. “My gran’s had a gammy leg ever since she fell off a horse.” Pants: Rubbish. “She said the film was pants, but I rather liked…
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Simple British Slang Phrases YOU SHOULD START USING ^_^ – PART III
Rubbish: Terrible, crap. “I’m totally rubbish at math—can’t even add.” Sad arse: Pathetic person. Sausage fest: An event that has a disproportionate amount of males to females… like a comic convention. Shag: Have sex. Shattered: Worn out, exhausted. Shufflebutt: A restless, fidgety person. Giddy kipper: An overly excitable person. Ginger: A red-haired person. Gobby: Offensively outspoken.…