GAMES OF IMAGINATION
Vocabulary Activities: Drawing with Words Imaginist – a person who has a lively or creative imagination. Wiktionary Take a look at the photo below. What do you see? Do you see a human body? Surprising as it may seem, it…
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WHEN EMOTIONS FIND THEIR WORDS
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost Poetry is timeless. Poetry is on the timelines. It isn’t the first time the numerous “finest people on Planet Earth” aka English teachers…
IDIOMS IN CLOSE-UP
One Reddit user has recently discovered a miniature world inside an old bottle while he was cleaning his yard. The long neck of the bottle creates a sense that you’re peering into an amazing world. Image credit: photograph by kidgalaxy on…
Is it Teachable?
Words with the Suffix ‘-able’: Lesson Plan The ability to use suffixes changing a word from one word class to another is what makes our vocabulary flexible and dynamic. It allows us to play around with words and create new…
DANCE-ISH?
“I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave…
ARE YOU TICKETY-BOO?
Guess the Meaning of the Word: Borrowed Words/Loanwords in English Have students guess the meaning of a particular word (that has a certain degree of the ‘wow factor’). TICKETY-BOO? Listen to the song and try to guess the meaning of…