In today's class we:

• Went through some course information including rules and information related to the course
  

• Talked about the number of words in the English language (1,000,000+) 
  
• Did an exercise on word trees (p5) and word forks (p5) 
  
• Talked about some random English language facts (see here for more. Warning...I can not verify all of the ones on the link  are true!)
  
• Looked at how the Oxford English Dictionary is always changing and being updated with NEW words and REVISIONS of old words e.g.  
  
  

-rendition -'extraordinary rendition' (Links for information about 'Extraordinary Rendition' here , here and here)  

-elephant- 'an elephant in the room'  

-crunk- a type of hip-hop crunk   

-bahookie - Scottish slang for a person's buttocks 

-OMG- internet slang for 'oh my god'  

-LOL- internet  slang for 'laughing out loud'

• Did a video exercise based on Series 1 Episode 5 of The Ricky Gervais Show. (See below for target vocabulary and the meanings)
  
• Arranged the groups
• Looked at the 100 most common words in English.  http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/bl1000_list1.htm
• Did a sentence writing exercise using some random nouns from the list too  http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/bl850_nouns1.htm
• Created the groups
• Looked at the common problems of 'Thai-English' (Thinglish)