In today's class we:
- Went through a list of idioms from the previous video exercise (see below)
- Looked at the differences between similes and metaphors
- Did a simile writing competition. EN102 is like.....
- Talked about freudian slips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEIslG2McpA
- Looked at commonly mis-spelt words in English; tired, desert, dessert, receive, chef, chief, address, parallel, eighth, accidentally, recommend, lieutenant, diarrhoea (UK) diarrhea (US)
- Did chapter 13 (p28/29) about Idioms
- Did chapter 16 (p34/35) about Apologies, excuses and thanks
- Did a video exercise (see below)
| idioms_from_the_ricky_gervais_show.docx |
Winners of the simile/metaphor writing contest:
| famous_sentence_of_the_day_2.docx |
| general_sentence_of_the_day_2.docx |
