Class
In today's class we:
-Tweeting
-rendition -'extraordinary rendition' (Links for information about 'Extraordinary Rendition' here , here and here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
-elephant- 'an elephant in the room'
-crunk- a type of hip-hop crunk
-bahookie - Scottish slang for a person's buttocks
- Went through some basic facts of the English language (there are more than a million words in English, for example)
- Talked about some random English language facts
- Talked about some random new words in English, such as:
-Tweeting
-rendition -'extraordinary rendition' (Links for information about 'Extraordinary Rendition' here , here and here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
-elephant- 'an elephant in the room'
-crunk- a type of hip-hop crunk
-bahookie - Scottish slang for a person's buttocks
- Did a language exercise based on Fawlty Towers "Communication Problems" (see below). We will discuss it in the next class
- http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/ (online list of idioms)
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/8400964/Heart-symbol-enters-Oxford-English-Dictionary.html
- Talked about formal v informal language. We watched an episode of Fawlty Towers (Communication Problems) and I asked you to consider the following questions before Saturday's class:
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