lexical friends

Alastair Grant Director of Studies Teacher Development ManagerInternational House - San Isidro

Helping students work with

words, even when they look mean

and nasty.

“I was very poogly last night…”

“I was very poogly last night

when saw her…”

“I was very poogly last night

when saw her with a knife in her

hand…”

verbs nouns adjectives adverbs

viddy droogs

rassoodocks

mesto

malenky skorry

…things changing so skorry these days…

…he viddied the four of us like that

…and viddy him swim in his blood…

…making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening…

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The ridiculous girl fell into the pond

pond the fell the ridiculous into girl

Verbophobia and Cambridge

exams

What challenges might a student face with this exercise?

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erinaceous

lynudiustertia

n

mumpsimo

us

Three mean and

nasties…

Three mean and

nasties…If you continue be so mumpsimus as to keep saying “I didn’t went” in class, I’ll give you a zero on your next report card.

Agreeing with that old idea that death penalty is effective is just so wrong... it’s absolutely mumpsimus.

Al is so mumpsimus in his insistence that Grammar Translation is the still best methodology. What an old man he is!

Three mean and

nasties…“Winter is coming...”, thought Al as he curled up erinaceously under the duvet.

Due to the strange diet of bread and milk that the doctor had put him on, Al ate erinaceously throughout the winter.

The spiky little creature walked erinaceously through the garden towards the left-over cat food.

Three mean and

nasties…On that nudiustertian afternoon, Al decided that drinking a litre of whiskey would be a good idea, which explained the hangover he still had 48 hours later.

I'd ordered the massage gel on-line for £48 that nudiustertian morning and was not expecting it to arrive until two days later.

The nudiustertian fashion in San Isidro is wearing bright fluorescent colours and calling your male friends “Papi”.

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1. morphology

a) Wash those dishes, Al!

b) discriminate (v.) – indiscriminately (neg. adv.)

c) preamble – establishment – dishonestly

2. a bound morpheme

3. agglutinative

Breaking it down… which is

which?

A little help from your cyber friends…

vary

Emergent language in class – lovely lemmas

plea

se

vary

Emergent language in class – lovely lemmas

plea

se

pleasure

pleasured

pleased

pleasing

pleasant

pleasantly

displeased

displeasing

displeasure

varied

various

variously

varying

variable

variety

invariable

invariably

How big is it?

It’s tiny!

coffee-face (n. / count.)

wise beyond beers (idiom)

congratsturbating (v.)

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Get your students to look at

some nudiustertian words… and

invent some of their own.

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Alastair GrantDirector of Studies Teacher Development ManagerInternational House - San Isidro

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