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Lexical friends
1. Alastair Grant
Director of Studies
Teacher Development Manager
International House - San Isidro
Helping students work with
words, even when they look mean
and nasty.
2.
3. “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…”
4.
5. 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…
10. 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
12. 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!
13. 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.
14. 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”.
16. 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?
19. 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
24. coffee-face (n. / count.)
wise beyond beers (idiom)
congratsturbating (v.)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Get your students to look at
some nudiustertian words… and
invent some of their own.
25. twitter: alastairjgrant
Alastair Grant
Director of Studies
Teacher Development Manager
International House - San Isidro
email: alastair@ihsanisidro.com.ar
IH blog: https://ihsanisidro.wordpress.com/
My blog: http://alastairjamesgrant.wordpress.com/
