Phwoar! Professor David Crystal Interjections are words which express emotions and some of them are very old: words like 'cooer', 'gosh' or 'phew'. You don't get new interjections very often, but one did arrive in the 1980s. It was a sort of expressi...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 10 Mwah! CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: greetings...
Mwah! Professor David Crystal You've seen it on television, or in the street, hundreds of times, thousands of times. Two people come towards each other, they obviously know each other very well, and they start to kiss each other - but it's not a full...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 9 e- CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: The internet L...
e- Professor David Crystal In a vote, in 1998, the American Dialect Society looked for the new word that was most likely to succeed. And they had an accolade - the word of the year. And that particular year, it wasn't a word at all, it was 'e-', e hy...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 8: Dis(s) CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: Manners a...
Dis(s) Professor David Crystal Prefixes, almost by definition, don't occur as separate words. I mean, that's what they're for: they're for modifying a word, occurring before a word, and making it change its meaning - happy, un-happy, national, de-nat...
There was once a guy who suffered from cancer, a cancer that can't be cured. He was 18 years old and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he was sick of staying home...
There is a story from many years ago of a primary school teacher. Her name was Mrs. Thompson. And as she stood in front ofher 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked her students an...
This is a story from Three Kingdoms that happened before the Battle of Chibi. One night, Zhou Yu was thinking hard in his tent about how to defeat Cao Cao's army, when Huang Gai came in. He suggested attacking with fire. Well, it's exactly what I mea...
