The Speedo 24/04/07 - 1/05/07

Hello everyone! We hope you are enjoying the beautiful Spring weather - it is warm and sunny! Read below for some new idioms about SPRING! Hopefully you have plans for rest and relaxation during the holiday week - enjoy and we'll see you in May!

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THANK YOU to everyone who came to Jamie's lecture on American slang - it was a HIT (a hit means it was popular)! Students learned lots of slang phrases that are used in everyday English, especially in song lyrics (words) and movie dialogues (talking). A quick sample of what the students learned:

NOUNS -

Crib – your house
Bling – shiny jewelery with lots of glitter and sparkles
Dawg – a friend

Hood – neighborhood, the area where you live

Hoopty - an old car
Mula – money

VERBS -

To bounce – to leave

To boogie – to dance
To check out – to look at, to watch
To hook up – to give something to someone

To chill - to relax

ADJECTIVES - These words ALL mean excellent, impressive, trendy, very nice:

Tight
Wicked
Sweet
Hot * also means stolen
Sick
Dope
Fly
Ill
Phat

GREETINGS:

Yo
What’s up --- wasssup --- sup
How’s it going?
How ya doing?
What’s the word?
What’s kicking?

SAMPLE SLANG IN USE....

Terri: YO Lee, how was your weekend?

Lee: WASSUP! My weekend was DOPE! I went to a FLY BASH with my DAWGS! What did you do?

Terri: My weekend was SWEET. I didn’t have any MULA so I stayed at my CRIB because I wanted to CHILL.

Lee: That sounds PHAT!

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Upcoming Events:

TONIGHT - Lee and Dean's BEER AND FILM night

Watch a film and taste beers from all over the world! The students pick the movie and Lee will pick the beers :) Come and enjoy a good film with your teachers and students.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 24th @ 7:30

WHERE: @ SPEED CALLAN

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SPRING IDIOMS!

Idiom #1 - to SPRING TO LIFE - to suddenly become active.

Dean: I was trying to start my car, when suddenly it sprang to life without warning!

(The paradigm of spring is: spring, sprang, sprung)

Idiom #2 - To SPRING TO MIND - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts.

Jamie: I was trying to think of a good song to sing at Karaoke, when suddenly Tina Turner SPRUNG TO MIND!

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Joke of the Week!

Student: Would you punish me for some thing i didn't do?

Teacher: no, of course not.

Student: good, because i didn't do my homework.

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A LOOK AT CHUCK!

Chuck Norris is the only person that can punch a cyclops between the eye.

(A cyclops is a monster with only ONE eye!)