class work
Feb 5th, 2008 by marjo
Monday 2008-02-04
Monday 2008-02-04
We started class by doing the blog. On the spanking new Mac books of the English department, we logged to internet and each of us created a blog. This took a long time because we were working on the wifi network of the university and some email addresses (like those ending with hotmail) did not receive the confirmation mail as well as the password from the “edublogs” site. Anyway, we were all very excited about this pilot project. Our teacher was in the same degree of excitement as we were but her professional consciousness made us work a little bit of English before leaving class. She asked if we knew by heart some expressions. I dug deep into my mind but couldn’t think of any. What a pity!! We were like 15 or so in the class and although we had our brilliant scientific minds together, we could guess only those 6 idioms:
1. Raining cats and dogs
2. Stop beating around the bush
3. It is the last straw
4. An apple a day keeps the doctor away
5. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
6. Cheers
Hopeless case, isn’t it ? !
As a last resort, our teacher handed a photocopy of a book (New Cambridge Advanced English p.135) containing 2 exercises about ‘idioms and collocations’ with the word day or time. Maybe this time we might be brilliant! In fact, yes, we were!!
I really don’t know how to put the handout here in the blog (I think that this won’t be necessary). I’ll just write the idioms and their meanings as given in the first exercise:
day:
| Day in and day out: every single day Call it a day: stop That’ll be the day: that’s very unlikely A red letter day: special day Daydreaming: thinking pleasant thoughts | It’ll make his day: make happy One of these days: eventually Scared the living day out of him: terrify It’s not my day today: being unlucky Those were the days: that was a wonderful period |
The second exercise with the word time is too long to write but it contained an interesting expression :
the time of my life
Are you like me humming an old song coming from an old film with poor quality because the video tape was seen again and again? Just for pleasure, here is the film strip with this special scene (if there is no one around you, YES, you can sing it loud: I’ve put the lyric below the video)
Dirty Dancing, (I’ve had) The time of my life
Boy: Now I’ve had the time of my life
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Girl: I can’t get enough ofBoy: So I’ll tell you somethingBoth: This could be love because(CHORUS)Both: ‘Cause I had the time of my life
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Goodness! I really enjoyed reading your blog, and also the video clip which I just watched right through to the end. It seems to me that when I asked if anyone had already made a blog and “everyone” said no, I can’t have been attentive enough to the reply…. Surely this is not the first time you have tried out these tools !
cu on Monday
III’VE HAAAAD THE TIME of MYYYYY LIIIIFE!!!