ACHOOO! Someone just sneezed. What do you say to them? You might say, ‘excuse you’ or ‘gesundheit’ (German for health). But you are mostly likely to say, ‘bless you’ if you are from an English-speaking country. You may also hear the full phrase, ‘God bless you.’ So, today we will explore this phrase and try … Read More
We will watch a couple videos about gift giving. We will also make wishlists and “buy” gifts for each other by cutting out magazines. Gift Giving
First, we will take the 5 Love Languages test. We will compare our results and see how accurate they are. Then we will discuss some posts on r/datingadvice. 5 Love Languages r/datingadvice
In this lesson we talk about art. By the end, you will analyze a piece of art. We will also play A Fake Artist Goes to New York. The Museum of Bad Art A fake Artist Goes to New York Art for Analysis
In this lesson, we analyze how to make meaning-based questions. We discuss the value of grammar-explicit and grammar-implicit teaching. In the second period I will present a sample lesson that demonstrates meaning-based education. Meaning-Based Questions Wolves Change Rivers Food Chain Printouts
Deganawideh A hatchet is a small axe (or ax). So, why would someone bury it? Well, this idiom comes from indigenous North Americans. The Iroquois leaders, Deganawideh and Hiwatha convinced the Five Nations to form a confederacy. The Five Nations was a collective of five nations united under the Iroquois Confederacy. The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, … Read More
Recently I bought a gift for a friend online. The website had interesting titles for its categories. One was called, “Interesting Little Product.” However, I ended up purchasing a product from “Sell like hot cakes.” I think that might have influenced my decision. I thought it was funny and cute. The term, selling like hotcakes … Read More
My friend and I were talking about rhetoric and logical fallacies. One of us brought up cherry-picking. I think it was me. Cherry-picking is when you only use data that helps your point, but you disregard the rest. You only use the best data for your point. Cherry-picking can be found in many logical fallacies. … Read More
The 2021 (alternatively the 2020) Olympic Games have begun and whenever Korea participates in a sporting event as a country, we hear a lot of “대한민국 파이팅.” 파이팅 can be Romanized to “Hwaiting”, “Painting”, or (more often) “Fighting.” For my foreign readers who are not familiar with this term, it is a remark used to … Read More
Make a stink means to cause a disturbance or to loudly protest (complain about) something. There are many forms of this phrase that you can see at the end of this article. Thesaurus.com gives an additional 39 synonyms for make a stink. Example: The child made a stink in the store because her father wouldn’t … Read More
