THE SPEEDO 16/10/06 - 23/10/06

Hello Students and welcome back to your weekly Speedo blog. Thank you for all you party people who came to Pub Club! There are a few pictures underneath of smiling teachers and students together. The next big event is Lee's Lecture on Friday 20/10/06 at 7:30pm "New York, New York!" - see you there!


PUB CLUB PICTURES

There will be a few Pub Club pictures here when we get a digital photo card thing from Terri or Lynsey - WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

THEY'RE HERE! See happy pub club punters (punters = people - english slang) below!!


NEXT PUB CLUB
NEXT MONTH
BE THERE
OR BE SQUARE!



Word of the Week

The word of the week, this week, is 'LEATHER'.

Leather is the skin of an animal, normally the skin of a cow, which people mak into jackets, wallets (to hold your money) and trousers. If you go to Rock Club with Gary you will see him in leather trousers - NICE!

In British English slang we can 'get leathered' which means to get very very drunk.




(These men are 'leathered')








Idiom #230079 - "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

As horses become older there teeth get worse and so you can check how old the horse is by looking in its mouth. But if someone gives you a "gift" (something for free because they like you/it is your birthday etc) it is impolite and rude to look at it and see how good it is! You should say thank you and be happy that they are kind to you... so "don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

A LOOK AT CHUCK

So Chuck is back - be afraid, be very afraid. If anyone has any other Chuck Norris facts that I don't talk about in the blog, please tell me in class or post them on this site. I am determined to continue the tradition of worshipping the god that is Chuck Norris but your ideas would be very valuable!!!

(RIGHT: CHUCK HOLDING TWO BIG GUNS - NORMALLY IT'S ONLY ONE BIG GUN FOR CHUCK!)

"In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself."

INTERESTING ENGLISH INFORMATION

In the old days (until the 16th Century) Plurals in English were nearly always made by adding 'en' to the end of a word. The plural of 'book' was 'booken' and the plural of door was 'dooren' etc. In the 16th and 17th century this slowly changed and we started using 's' instead - as it was often easier to pronounce. Only a few words remained unchanged - the most obvious are 'children', 'women' and 'men' - this was because they sounded nicer and eaier to pronounce. The only other word I can think of is 'brethren' which means 'brothers'. It is still used today for a religious church/group in the UK - the Plymouth Brethren who still (sometimes) wear funny hats (or head scarves) like the lady in the picture below.