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WORD GAMES

      We all love playing with words. Who hasn’t played scrabble, done a crossword or enjoyed a TV show based on words? The following games focussing on individual words can be adapted for different levels and topics.

      Some examples are: Mastermind, Gap Fill Gamble, Taboo, Hot Seat, Ruckzuck, ...

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WHAT IS THE VERB "BE"?

     

    It’s interesting that the most common verbs in many languages are irregular. Be, have, do and go often also serve as auxiliaries, combined with other verbs to express tense and other grammatical information, as in He is jogging, He has jogged, He didn’t jog, He is going to jog. Many language scientists believe that the meanings of these verbs – existence, possession, action, motion – are at the core of all verbs, if only metaphorically. For example, the mind treats telling her a story as causing the story to go to her resulting in her having it, and treats dying as going out of existence.

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DOLPHINS FOR... KIDS?

     

      Their moans, groans, squeaks, whistles, and grunts can sound as if they're a heavy metal band. But bottlenose dolphins make their own kind of music. Many of the sounds they make could be imitated by holding a balloon tightly by the neck, then letting the air out faster and slower.

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ENGLISH, ENGLISH,...EVERY ONE IS DIFFERENT

Try saying the following:    

“Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.”

This text can be heard recited 1,300 times at the online speech accent archive at George Mason University in Virginia – and every one is different. The passage was chosen because it contains most of the consonants, vowels and clusters of Standard American English

A TRIBUTE TO JOHN PAUL II

 

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THE SPEECH ACCENT ARCHIVE

      The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.

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