Hi everyone,
We started today with a game of 'hidden word'. Wow, you were terrible at the beginning but got into the swing of things (the rhythm) quite quickly. Vincent used his detective skills to great effect and Vito even got it after a few passes. Fluency is a skill that needs to be developed like any other.
We moved on to some language development then. With some circumlocution phrases such as thingy, thingumajig, whatsit and yer man. I forgot to mention that Irish people often use the word 'yolk' to refer to thing; "What's the name of the yoke that you use to crush garlic again?"
You'll find a reference to it here in an Irish blog.
Speaking of blogs, have you got Bloglovin'? It's a great RSS reader which looks like a magazine. Reading blogs is a great way to find new vocabulary and find a way to read about subjects and topics you really enjoy. You need to find the blogs, but Bloglovin will keep them for you to read and give you headlines and images to help you decide to read or not.
We also talked about ways of using get in different phrases. To get something, to get something done, to get someone on their own etc. We also looked at ways of cushioning or softening a criticism, for example - Your party wasn't the best one I've ever been to, no offence intended.(first phrase: negative auxiliary + positive adjective, then further softened by no offence intended.)
We spent a little time trying to work those phrases into open conversation before moving on to a little phrasal verb work.
I think we still need to work on that quite a bit so I intend to spend some more time on that next Tuesday. We also didn't get to the podcast...Sorry about that. But I do promise you that next Tuesday we'll have a couple. I have them all ready, there's even a Christmas one!
Homework:
Vocabulary exercises from the two vocab SHEETS I gave you in class.
See you next week, have a great weekend!
Éadaoin
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