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Post by Bonobo on Nov 18, 2015 22:07:57 GMT 1
Sometimes I get a chance to learn sth new with the help of my students. A few days ago a brilliant student informed me there are still more verbs above double and treble. Naturally I knew the names of multiple newborn babies like quadruplets, quintuplets etc but I didn`t know they come from verbs.
I was really surprised, and the student got a plus for class activity into my notebook. (5 activity pluses make B)
PS. He told me this series goes to number 9. True ? I didn`t have the time to check.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 16, 2016 15:23:54 GMT 1
Many years ago, as a young teacher, I learnt that wheat is pronounced wit, not wet. During studies I had always said it with long i and nobody had corrected me. Strange.
Today I learnt that a lump can be used for a lazy and stupid person. I have always warned my students not to use it in the same way as in Polish where it means an anti-social person who has a drinking problem and doesn`t work.
Now I must eat my words.
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Post by jeanne on Oct 18, 2016 22:02:12 GMT 1
Many years ago, as a young teacher, I learnt that wheat is pronounced wit, not wet. During studies I had always said it with long i and nobody had corrected me. Strange. That's very confusing to me as an English-speaker. "Wit" in English is pronounced with the short "i" sound, not the long "i" sound. "Wet" has the short "e" sound, not long "e". Do you use breves and macrons to show the short or long sound when writing pronunciations? |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 19, 2016 18:41:24 GMT 1
Many years ago, as a young teacher, I learnt that wheat is pronounced wit, not wet. During studies I had always said it with long i and nobody had corrected me. Strange. That's very confusing to me as an English-speaker. "Wit" in English is pronounced with the short "i" sound, not the long "i" sound. "Wet" has the short "e" sound, not long "e". Do you use breves and macrons to show the short or long sound when writing pronunciations? I used simplified terminology due to time shortage.  |
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