The Speedo 09/01/07 - 16/01/07 (CONTINUED!)

JAMIE'S LECTURE - THURSDAY 11th JANUARY - 7.30PM

Come along to Jamie's lecture on Thursday to look at the human mind! She will help you take a personality test to find out more about who you really are! Maybe you will be as 'MAD AS A HATTER'? (see 'idiom of the week' - later in the Blog!)

Words of the Week: 'CUSTARD', 'JELLY' and 'TRIFLE'

'Custard' is a very popular type of sauce which people in England eat with their desserts. We eat it hot on things like cakes and apple pies (it would be great with Szarlotka!) and sometimes cold (see below)

'Jelly' is very different to custard and must be eaten cold. It is made using 'gelatine' which comes from the bones of animals. First you mix the jelly with boiling water and then put it in the fridge to 'set' (go solid). It comes in different colours like red, green, orange and yellow. Jelly 'wobbles' (this means it shakes and moves in a funny way when you touch it)

SO - We can add jelly and custard together to make a very special and tasty English dessert:

A TRIFLE

A 'Trifle' has jelly at the bottom, custard in the middle and cream on top. Sometimes there are pieces of cake mixed into the jelly at the bottom!

Also, on top of the cream, we sometimes put litlle coloured sugary things called 'hundreds and thousands' (they are called this because there are a lot of them! - in USA these are called 'sprinkles')

All together, they make a delicious dessert - the TRIFLE...


BUT... THE WORD 'TRIFLE' HAS ANOTHER MEANING...

'Trifle' can mean a small, unimportant thing, something which does not matter very much OR it can mean slightly/a little bit.


Lynsey: "Darling - you shouldn't have spent so much money on my Christmas present!!"

Greg: "Don't worry darling. It is only a trifle compared to my love for you!"

OR Dean: "Are you ok Terri you look a trifle tired"

Terri: "I'm fine - i just stayed out partying a trifle late last night!"

JOKE OF THE WEEK

A man went to the pub with some jelly in one ear and some custard in the other

The bar man said "Why have you got custard in one ear and jelly in the other?"

The man said:

"Sorry, you'll have to speak louder - I'm a trifle deaf!"

IDIOM(S) OF THE WEEK: 'AS MAD AS A HATTER'/'AS MAD AS A MARCH HARE'

These are two different idioms that mean the same thing - that somebody is very crazy or mad!

A 'hatter' is a person who makes hats. In the old days, they used to use the metal 'mercury' (rtec) to make one part of a hat. The gas from this metal was very bad for their brains and it made them go crazy! (in the book 'Alice in Wonderland there is a mad hatter)

A 'hare' is like a big rabbit and in March, these hares are very crazy and excited and the boy hares run around looking for girl hares to make friends with !

MARCH HARE AND MAD HATTER HAVING TEA!