...Until We Meet Again

Well, this is it:  the very last post of the semester and of 2014.

 

The idioms we've had the past couple of weeks are:

 

• to be snowed under
• to work your fingers to the bone
• to bring home the bacon
• to be a number cruncher

We had these tongue twisters (https://soundcloud.com/alemany-teach/fall-2014-final-pronunciation):

           Four furious friends fought for the phone.

            There was a young fisher named Fischer
            Who fished for a fish in a fissure.
            The fish with a grin,
            Pulled the fisherman in;
            Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fischer.
 

            Freshly fried flying fish

             Freshly fried fresh flesh

            A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
            Said the flea, “Let us fly!“
            Said the fly, “Let us flee!“
            So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
            Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks
 
            Fat frogs flying past fast at five to five (4:55)

            Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

            Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.

            I am not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate. I am only 

            plucking pheasants ’cause the pheasant plucker’s running late.
 

  We talked a lot about punctuation.  If you want to practice go here.

Here are some words we learned.

 

 

Remember, you can always contact me at dselleck@ccsf.edu.

 

Until then:  

 

And I wish all of you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Feliz año nuevo

新年好

Chúc mừng năm mới

明けましておめでとうございます

с Новым годом

नया साल मुबारक

feliz ano novo   

ปีใหม่มีความสุข 

bonne année

መልካም አዲስ አመት 

  سنة جديدة سعيدة

I can't believe it's December!

It's almost winter and we've finally gotten some rain here.

During the past two weeks we've had these idioms:

• to let someone down
• to make it
• back talk
• to skate on thin ice
• to straighten up
• to be chicken
• to be a chicken
• to chicken out
• to turn out
• fraidycat
• there's something to that

We practiced these words.


And we worked on the following tongue twisters:

1.    Give Mr. Snipe’s wife’s knife a swipe.

2.   Will you wash Wendell on Wednesday, William?

3.   Who washed Washington’s white woolen underwear when Washington’s wash­er­woman went west?

 4.   Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

 5.   While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington’s windows with warm washing water.

6.   Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

 7.   Welsh wristwatches wear well in wild Wales.

  8.  Of all the felt I ever felt
      I never felt a piece of felt
     Which felt as fine as that felt felt
     When first I felt that felt hat’s felt.
 

Click on this link to hear me pronounce them: https://soundcloud.com/alemany-teach/friday-december-5-2013