14/12/2012

Anagram

An anagram is a word, name or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another, using each original letter only once. This is good for teaching as you can teach your students to find words that can be created based on the first ones. So, it will improve the students' vocabulary faster.

Example:


  • silent - listen
  • Elvis - lives
  • steam - meats
  • silver - livers
  • mate - tame
  • live - vile 
  • lase - sale

Oxymoron

 An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses contradictory terms in conjunction, which means words that don’t appear to go well together. This is good as you can teach your students antonym words and show them the comparison clearly.


Some examples of oxymoron are:


Act naturally

Almost exactly

Alone together

Clearly misunderstood

Diet chocolate-cake

Extinct Life

Freezer burn

Good grief

Living dead

Minor catastrophe

Near miss

Passive aggressive

Pretty ugly

Sweet sorrow

Small crowd

Terribly pleased

Working vacation

p/s : know English is to love English!!

Idioms

Idioms are expressions that have a meaning separate to the literal meaning of the words used...

Examples of Idioms:


Knock on wood.

Under the weather.

Go the extra mile.

Don’t cry over spilt milk.

Rule of thumb.

Things went pear shaped.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Out on a limb.

Between a rock and a hard place.

End of the road.

Bend over backwards.

The ball is in your court.

Like a broken record.

Break a leg.

All in the same boat.

Hold your horses.

Put your money where your mouth is.

A blessing disguise.

Tongue in cheek.

It’s a piece of cake.

Barking up the wrong tree.



Want to make it more interesting???..You can ask your students to find the meanings based on their discussion in groups and ask them to present it...so, another games in classroom can be created!

Funny English Words

Here are some funny English words with their meanings:


Anencephalous - Absence of a brain.

Borborygmus - Stomach rumbling.

Brouhaha - An uproar or noisy response.

Canoodle - Hugging and kissing.

Cantankerous - Bad tempered or grumpy.

Crudivore - Someone who eats raw food.

Discombobulate - To confuse someone.

Doozy - Something really good.

Fartlek - A training system for runners.

Flummox - To perplex or bewilder.

Gobbledygook - Meaningless or nonsensical language.

Kerfuffle - A mild scandal, commotion or fuss.

Klutz - A clumsy or foolish person.

Lickety-split - As quickly as possible.

Lollygag - To dawdle or spend time aimlessly.

Mollycoddle - To treat someone leniently.

Pratfall - A fall on the buttocks or an embarrassing action.

Rambunctious - Uncontrollably excitable or exuberant.

Shenanigan - Silly behaviour.

Skullduggery - Deception or trickery.


WEIRD, is it??..well, that is one of criteria that makes English is unique and FUN!

Puns

English Is FUN!!!..lets enjoy English, now we learn PUNS...

What is Puns??

Puns are a form of word play which take advantage of words, or similar sounding words, with multiple meanings, often to create a humorous situation or joke.

Here are some examples of puns in English:



1. Let’s talk about rights and lefts. You’re right, so I left.

2. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

3. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

4. A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.

5. Two fish are in a tank. One says to the other, “Err...so how do you drive this thing?”

6. I went to buy some camouflage trousers yesterday but couldn't find any.

7. I've been to the dentist many times so I know the drill.

8. Being struck by lightning is a shocking experience!

9. Without geometry, life is pointless.

10. A chicken crossing the road is truly poultry in motion.

11. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from far too much pi.

12. I went to a seafood disco last week....and pulled a mussel.

13. She had a photographic memory but never developed it.

14. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was brilliant!




Riddles For Kids Or Pupils

Some examples of riddles:


What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? A clock


What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short


What word begins and ends with an ‘e’ but only has one letter? Envelope


What has a neck but no head? A bottle


What type of cheese is made backwards? Edam


What gets wetter as it dries? A towel


Why did the boy bury his flashlight? Because the batteries died.


Which letter of the alphabet has the most water? The C


What starts with a ‘P’, ends with an ‘E’ and has thousands of letters? The Post Office!


What has to be broken before you can use it? An egg


Why can’t a man living in New York be buried in Chicago? Because he’s still living!


What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it? A teapot


How many letters are there in the English alphabet? There are 18: 3 in ‘the’, 7 in ‘English’ and 8 in ‘alphabet’.


Which month has 28 days? All of them of course!

Facts About English Language

Some interesting facts about English language...

  1. English is a West Germanic Language.
  2. The English language spread with the growth of the British Empire, becoming the dominant language in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia.
  3. The growing global influence of the US has further increased the spread of English.
  4. Today English is probably the most widely spoken language in the world, with many people learning it as a second or foreign language. It is estimated that there could be as many as 1.5 billion total English speakers worldwide.
  5. With over 800 million native speakers, Chinese Mandarin is the most spoken native language, followed by Spanish and English.
  6. The countries with the highest populations of native English speakers are the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
  7. English is one of six official languages of the United Nations, as well as French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese Mandarin.
  8. English has a huge vocabulary, with over 250000 different words listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
  9. English incorporates words from a large number of different languages. Many of these words have French, Old Norse or Dutch origins.
  10. Many scientific words used in the English language come from Latin or Greek.
  11. English is written in the Latin alphabet (also known as the Roman alphabet).

English Jokes

Here are some English jokes, Enjoy!!:

1English might be the most widespread language in the world but there’s still no ham in hamburger, no egg in eggplant and neither pine nor apple in pineapple.

2. The thing you’re looking for is always found in the last place you look.

3. Why did the boy eat his homework? Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake.

4. What are two things people never eat before breakfast? Lunch and dinner.

5. Why is the number six so scared? Because seven eight nine!

6. If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?

7. If we are the human race, then who is winning?

8. If vegetarians eat vegetables then what on earth do humanitarians eat?!

English Games 2

Another exciting English games that can be carried out in the classroom is tongue twisters...this will enhance the students ability to talk fast with correct pronunciation and stress of words.

Here are some examples of tongue twisters, enjoy!:


1. She sells seashells on the seashore.

2. Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.

3. A proper copper coffee pot.

4. I saw Esau sitting on a see saw. Esau, he saw me.

5. Lovely lemon liniment.

6. Three free throws.The instinct of an extinct insect stinks.

English Games 1


Guess the connection words ( eg: I can sell + LIST of things that connected to topic)


Other possible restrictions

1. objects must begin with the same letter as the S's first name.
2. objects must begin with the same letter as the first name of S on the right of speaker.
3. must be in the room
4. must be made of special material / must include wood or metal
5. must be objects you can grow.

Instructions

Each student has a turn of saying "I'm a market trader and I can sell...."
The person who knows the connection (T or S) gives feedback (Yes, you can or No, you can't.
The students must guess the connection. Either call it out or write it down after a reasonable number of examples have been given.

Song Lyrics : Old McDonald Had A Farm

Objective: To make students know and practice to sing the song with correct words and pronunciations..

Well, old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o
And on his farm he had a cow, ee-i-ee-i-o
With a moo-moo here, and a moo-moo there
Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo
Old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o


Old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o
And on his farm he had a goat, ee-i-ee-i-o
With a baa-baa here and a baa-baa there
Here a baa, there a baa, everywhere a baa-baa
Old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o

Well, old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o
And on his farm he had a chicken, ee-i-ee-i-o
With a cluck-cluck here, and a cluck-cluck there
Here a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck-cluck
Old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o

Old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o
And on his farm he had a pig, ee-i-ee-i-o
With an oink-oink here, and an oink-oink there
Here a oink, there a oink everywhere an oink-oink
Old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o



p/s : T
he teacher is advised to present it to the students first, then asked them to follow...

Song : Old McDonald Had A Farm