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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject: Name that pet |
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Here's a kind of fun little activity you can use to fill some time and get the kids to think creatively. Print out some pictures of dogs, cats, or various other pets. Print out pictures of big dogs, little yappy dogs, silly looking dogs, big fat Persian cats, etc. Google images is a great starting point.
Then get your kids to suggest English names for the pets. A big dog they might call "Bear", because it's big and furry like a bear. You might have to point out features of the animal "it has stripes" "it has pointy features" etc. and try to get them to think of names that might associate with those features. "Tiger" "Stripe" "Pointer" "Sharpy". |
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captain_radar
Joined: 10 May 2004
Location: Seoul - 37:35:00N 127:03:00E. Or there-a-bouts.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: Name that pet |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| "Tiger" "Stripe" "Pointer" "Sharpy". |
Sharpy? Do you always teach your students non-existent words?
How about Fuzzly? |
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Holyjoe
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: Away for a cuppa
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject: Re: Name that pet |
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| captain_radar wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| "Tiger" "Stripe" "Pointer" "Sharpy". |
Sharpy? Do you always teach your students non-existent words? |
www.dictionary.com
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1 entry found for sharpy.
sharpy
n 1: an alert and energetic person [syn: eager beaver, busy bee, live wire, sharpie] 2: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud [syn: swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, sharper, sharpie]
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Apologies to the OP? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Name that pet |
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| Holyjoe wrote: |
| captain_radar wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| "Tiger" "Stripe" "Pointer" "Sharpy". |
Sharpy? Do you always teach your students non-existent words? |
www.dictionary.com
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1 entry found for sharpy.
sharpy
n 1: an alert and energetic person [syn: eager beaver, busy bee, live wire, sharpie] 2: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud [syn: swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, sharper, sharpie]
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Apologies to the OP? |
An inspection of his posts reveals he's offered zero discussion of actual ESL education on this board. He seems to speak mostly about taking trips. I would be surprised if he is actually interested in the education of children. To wit, his opinion or his apology hardly matters.
Also one should add that "sharpy" is a term for a kind of magic marker in North America. He only manages to demonstrate his profound ignorance and again I have to question the wisdom of placing him before children. |
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captain_radar
Joined: 10 May 2004
Location: Seoul - 37:35:00N 127:03:00E. Or there-a-bouts.
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Yeah, good one.
I looked that up before I posted it and perhaps due to my "profound ignorance" I failed to relate "an alert and energetic person" to a form of animal. And before you spout off about "alert and energetic" dogs in a weak attempt to prove me wrong, I believe that the OP was talking about 'sharp' as in teeth of an animal (such as a shark if you are falling behind). Not alertness.
As for a non-english speaking student making links between an animal and a North American Board Marker? This doesn't warrant a response.
Well done on the Sherlock work of 'investigating' my posts. And the terribly inaccurate assumption of what I do here. I'm sure it made you feel good though. |
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Holyjoe
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: Away for a cuppa
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| captain_radar wrote: |
Yeah, good one.
I looked that up before I posted it and perhaps due to my "profound ignorance" I failed to relate "an alert and energetic person" to a form of animal. And before you spout off about "alert and energetic" dogs in a weak attempt to prove me wrong, I believe that the OP was talking about 'sharp' as in teeth of an animal (such as a shark if you are falling behind). Not alertness.
As for a non-english speaking student making links between an animal and a North American Board Marker? This doesn't warrant a response.
Well done on the Sherlock work of 'investigating' my posts. And the terribly inaccurate assumption of what I do here. I'm sure it made you feel good though. |
Regardless, you claimed it was a "non-existent word".
You have been proved wrong, and have admitted you knew as such before making the initial post. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Holyjoe wrote: |
| captain_radar wrote: |
Yeah, good one.
I looked that up before I posted it and perhaps due to my "profound ignorance" I failed to relate "an alert and energetic person" to a form of animal. And before you spout off about "alert and energetic" dogs in a weak attempt to prove me wrong, I believe that the OP was talking about 'sharp' as in teeth of an animal (such as a shark if you are falling behind). Not alertness.
As for a non-english speaking student making links between an animal and a North American Board Marker? This doesn't warrant a response.
Well done on the Sherlock work of 'investigating' my posts. And the terribly inaccurate assumption of what I do here. I'm sure it made you feel good though. |
Regardless, you claimed it was a "non-existent word".
You have been proved wrong, and have admitted you knew as such before making the initial post. |
Time to let him get back to his partying while the rest of us actually get on with the education of children. |
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agraham
Joined: 19 Aug 2004
Location: Daegu, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: Name that pet |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Also one should add that "sharpy" is a term for a kind of magic marker in North America. He only manages to demonstrate his profound ignorance and again I have to question the wisdom of placing him before children. |
Let me join the pedantry party: It's "sharpie" not "sharpy" |
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