jueves, 24 de diciembre de 2015

Kangaroo words within words; Worlds within worlds....

Following up from our previous entry KANGAROO WORDS are those which carry within their spellings a smaller word which can be a synonym. They should not be confused with anagrams such as

POOL, LOOP, POLO
FOWL, WOLF, FLOW
DARE, READ, DEAR
LAME, MALE, MEAL
ACRE, RACE, CARE
SEAT, EAST,  SATE
NAME, AMEN, MANE

I´LL GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES AND YOU´LL HAVE TO FIND THE HIDDEN KANGAROO WORDS IN THE REMAINING LIST:


DECEASED........................................DEAD

SALVAGE..........................................SAVE

CATACOMB......................................TOMB

EXISTS..............................................IS

ROTUND...........................................ROUND

ILLUMINATED................................LIT

FABRICATION.................................FICTION

REVOLUTION..................................REVOLT

FACADE............................................FACE

RECLINE...........................................LIE

ENGAGED........................................GAG

APPROPRIATE................................

OBSERVE........................................

DELIBERATE................................

PANTALOONS...............................

PRECIPITATION..........................

SUPERVISOR................................

HOSTELRY...................................

PREMATURELY.........................

MASCULINE..............................

PERIMETER.............................

BALSAM...................................

FALSIFIED.............................

FOX.........................................


Which other words can you find embedded in the list below?:

CARPENTER     CARMEN  CARMINATIVE

BUNGALOWS  capital punishment for small cakes

MARGIN spoil the alcoholic drink

CHAMPAGNE (fake an ache)

PILLAGE time for contraception

SUMMERSAULT  seasonal seasoning

LACTOSE  without sth on your feet

CASTRATE  number of attempts made by an angler

FONDANT a loving insect

 ABOMINABLE  a terrorist attack on an animal

ALPHABET gamble on italian car 

PERVERSE poetry for cats

PROPAGANDA genuine goose 

FLATULENT loaned out your apartment 

MOCCASIN   scorn any wrong doing

TANGENT  a sunburn fellow 

ASTEROID   a body-builder from outer space 

BREAKFAST an emergency stop 

MALARIA  a shopping precinct

BULLETIN a container for ammunition 

EXTREMIST  heavy fog

 SANDWICH  a seaside sorceress 

SHAMROCK a false stone 

HURRICANE a stick for quick walkers 

ADAGE a commercial era 

ANALOGY  for example hay fever 

AN UROLOGIST  for your neurons 

INTELLIGENT  fashionable TV personality  

IMMENSITY  huge urban connurbation 

FANATIC circulate air near the roof 

THINKING  a slim monarch 

HORTICULTURE supercilious society 

DOGMATIC  flea on a hound with litter 

continue with any other REBUSES  you may devise: 




See the following list of ANTI-KANGAROO WORDS    WHAT DO THEY STAND FOR?

Find the opposite or complementary in the following

                   anti-kangaroo words.

  1. animosity
  2. bearded
  3. communicative
  4. courteous
  5. covert
  6. effective
  7. exacerbate
  8. fabrication
  9. feasted
  10. female
  11. friend
  12. negligently
  13. pest
  14. prudent
  15. prurient
  16. redoubtable
  17. resigned
  18. revolution
  19. she
  20. there
  21. thoroughly
  22. unruffianly
  23. wonderful
  24. wreckless


miércoles, 2 de diciembre de 2015

How can we get RID of the MAD in MADRID...?

THIS UNIT IS NOT POLITICAL AT ALL. It´s just one good way of enjoying the sheer fun and creativity in the classroom. We started  by giving our students copies of the comedy song  Who put the bricks in Brixton... This song  asks about different places in England ,Scotland and Wales, for instance

Who put the pool in Blackpool?

Who put the bed in Bedford?

Who put the liver in Liverpool?

Who put the scar in Scarborough?

Who put the barn in Barnsley?

Who put the chef in Sheffield?

Who put the udder in Huddersfield?

Who put the car in Cardiff?

Who put the swan in Swansea?

Who put the glass in Glasgow?

Who put the ham in Hamilton?

Who put the mother in Motherwell?


We did this activity both in English and Spanish and this is what our students came up with:...


WHO PUT THE BAR in BARCELONA or BARBADOS?

                              BOMB in BOMBAY?

                               ALTAR in Gibraltar?

                               PEN in COPENHAGEN?

                               JERRY in Jericho?

                                CAN in Canada?

                                TAR in Tarragona?

                                DEN in Denmark?

                                VILLA in SEVILLA?

                                 ROCKS in TORROX?

                                 BOX  in Albox?

                                 PAR in Paris?

                               cow in Moscow?

                                            ........................................................?

                                               Now the Spanish version

                  QUIEN PUSO EL ALMA en LAS PALMAS?   

                                               el   MAL en MÁLAGA?

                                                  la NADA en GRANADA?

                                  EL AJO Y LA HOZ en BADAJOZ?

                                                  MIL en MILÁN?

                                       La muñeca en Almuñécar?

                                           la  sal en Salobreña?

                                            la mar en Marbella?

                                             el can en Canarias?

                                         la uña en Cataluña o la Coruña ?

                                                   la lona en Barcelona?

                                                               la mora en Zamora?

                                                      la liana en Frigiliana?

                                                                    la boa en Lisboa?

                     ¡Por qué no es Oestepona en vez de Estepona, si está situada al Oeste de Málaga?
                                                   ......................................................?