A Way with
Words
word play for higher level students
What is this…?
and what do we use these for…?
Phillip
Abigail, Barney, Clodagh, Desmond,
Eva, Frank, Gertrude, Henry, Imogen,
Jake, Katie, Lawrence, Mary, Nigel,
Orla, Rhonda, Steve, Tegan, Vera,
Wilbert
Multiple Contexts
«Learners need to meet words in a wide variety of
contexts in order to gain an appreciation of the true
range of a word’s usage»
-Schmitt and Carter (2000)
« rich information on a variety of aspects of knowing a
word including collocates, grammatical patterns, word
families, related meanings and homonyms»
- Nation (2001)
Note
She’d left a quick note on the fridge door
saying she was leaving him.
«Can I borrow your lecture notes-I couldn’t
go this morning?»
He noted with a certain amount of guilty
pleasure that his neighbour’s lawn was
looking decidedly shabby.
It’s very difficult to get change for a
hundred Euro note
Come
Come
Come
Come
Come
Come Come
Come Come
crazy hide lonely
keep feelings
want get burning
mean
Use songs to «mine» vocabulary
Get sts to rewrite simple songs
by replacing the basic vocab
also focus on stress, syllable
count
Shout! TFF/Hey Jude/I Will Survive…
A Kennel of…
An unkindness of…
A Flamboyance of…
A Parliament of…
A dazzle of…
A Convocation of…
A Conflagration of…
A Tantrum of…
A Flock of…
A Body of…
A mindfulness of teachers
A mindlessness of _______
A/an terror of teens
A phonology of accents
A/an ____________ of words
A/an _____________ of mistakes
A structuring of ___________
A _______ of grammar
A learning of ____________
A/an ______________ of presentations
It’s Hip to be Square
Buzzwords 1904-2015
Can you match the following Buzzwords with the year in which they were
first used? 1 point for the right decade, 2 points for the right year!!
Buzzword
Ok Yah
square
beatnik
hip
omnishambles
celeb
pesticide
awesome
hot-desking
kitsch
food mile
karaoke
Decade
Year
Buzzword
Decade
Year
Ok Yah
Eighties
1985
square
Forties
1946
beatnik
Fifties
1958
hip
Noughties (last Century)
1904
omnishambles
Tens (David Crystal- this C)
1912
celeb
Tens (last C )
pesticide
Thirties
1913
awesome
Sixties
hot-desking
Nineties
kitsch
Twenties
food mile
Noughties (this C )
karaoke
Seventies
1934
1961
1991
1926
2007
1979
Buzzword
Decade
Year
Ok Yah
Eighties
1985
square
Forties
1946
beatnik
Fifties
1958
hip
Noughties (last Century)
1904
omnishambles
Tens (David Crystal- this C)
1912
celeb
Tens (last C )
1913
pesticide
Thirties
1934
awesome
Sixties
1961
hot-desking
Nineties
1991
kitsch
Twenties
1926
food mile
Noughties (this C )
2007
karaoke
Seventies
1979
Buzzwords article
Spanish buzzwords
Key (Buzz) Word
Transformations
Buzzwords Call My Bluff
Use in speaking and writing
Ambergris found on beach sells for £11,000
Ambergris found by a dog walker on an Anglesey beach has sold at auction for £11,000.
The 1.1kg chunk of “whale vomit”, known as ambergris and used mainly in perfume, sold to a
phone bidder in France on Friday - exceeding the estimated price of up to £7,000.
Auctioneer Adam Partridge said he was "elated" at the sale. "Somebody brought this smelly waxy
rugby ball-shaped lump to us and asked us to sell it for them," he added.
"There are many things which can be mistaken for ambergris - fat, rubber and palm oil amongst
others - but after doing some research and consulting the authorities on such things, we found out
that what we had was indeed very valuable.
"We've had lots of unusual items pass through the doors over the years, but this is by far the
weirdest."
Find
Rose Petals (from Space)
Civet Musk
Castoreum
Hyraceum
Virgins
Games:
Hangman- word and sentence
Pictionary
Stop the bus
Taboo
Outburst
5/10 words only
Adjective sketch
Adv/Adj/Noun/Verb/Adverb
Longest sentence
101 uses of..
Call my Bluff
Sporcle
Writing and Speaking
Short, guided writing tasks with a situation and a
number of specific vocab items to be included.
Context sentence for vocab cards.
Freer writing tasks allowing the sts to show what
they’ve learnt.
Specific speaking topics.
Word cards that sts have to use whilst speaking.
Mock interviews and role play.
Oxymoron
«An epigrammatic effect, by
which contradictory terms are
used in conjunction»
FOUND
FORCE
AIRLINE
HOLIDAY
GOOD
GLASSES
SMALL
THEN…”
“NOW,
ROCK
PEACE
MISSING
PLASTIC
GRIEF
NEW
AGRESSION
BUSINESS
ESTIMATE
SOFT
CROWD
GENUINE
FOOD
PASSIVE
CLASSIC
DEFINITE
MAYBE
SAME
DIFFERENCE
WORKING
IMITATION
EXACT
ETHICS
FOUND
MISSING
AIRLINE
FOOD
GOOD
GRIEF
SMALL
CROWD
“NOW,
THEN…”
PEACE
FORCE
PLASTIC
GLASSES
NEW
CLASSIC
BUSINESS
ETHICS
SOFT
ROCK
GENUINE
IMITATION
PASSIVE
AGRESSION
DEFINITE
MAYBE
SAME
DIFFERENCE
WORKING
HOLIDAY
EXACT
ESTIMATE
___________ ready
Almost ___________
___________ culture
____________ crime
Dry ______________
Extremely _________
And finally…
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