small words
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This is a quick slideshow that shows how smaller words can be trickier than larger words. Test yourself, or your students and see if they can figure out what word the pictures have in common. You can read the complete blog here: http://eslcarissa.blogspot.com/2014/03/multiple-meanings-of-words.html with other applicable ideas you can use in the classroom.TRANSCRIPT
How good is your English?
•Many people feel the harder words are the longer ones: effervescent, uninhabitable, disenfranchisement. • However, in my opinion the little ones are trickier! Big words
usually very specific, whereas small words have many meanings.• To show my point, all of these slides show three pictures.
Each of the pictures represents ONE word. • See if you can figure out what the pictures have in common.
What word fits all these pictures?
Play a video, Play a game, See a Play
What word fits all these pictures?
Take an eye test, Take a bath,
Your take of the cash
What word fits all these pictures?
Break a glass, Breaking News, Coffee Break
What word fits all these pictures?
A rich cup of coffee, A rich girl, Rich soil (to make a pumpkin that big!)
What word fits all these pictures?
Take Turns, No U-turns, Turn down the bed
What word fits all these pictures?
Print a page, Print letters, A handprint
What word fits all these pictures?
Run a company, Run a Bath, Runny
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