lexical friends
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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?
http://hibernia-institute.cz/on_line_testy/cae/cae_use_part4.htm
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”.
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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