Chipmunk, igloo, kayak, moccasin, moose, papoose, pecan, powwow, squash, succotash, tepee,toboggan, tomahawk, totem, wampum, wigwam
Words from Russian:
Cosmonaut, babushka, intelligentsia, mammoth, pogrom, ruble, tchotche, kalishnikov, borsch,
kasha, kefir, pirogy, glasnost, MIR, perestroika, tsar, Rodinia,
A language borrows a word (and doesn’t give it back, but keeps it) when it doesn’t have a word
of its own for something new or a new idea.
When the Vikings (who spoke Old Norse) came and settled in England, many words arrived with them:
Words from Old Norse:
Anger, bag, birth, bleak, both, cake, call, club, crooked, die, drag, egg, fellow, freckle, gaze, get,hit, husband, kid, kindle, knife, law, leg, lift, loose, meek, oaf, raft, rag, raise, reindeer, root, rug,same, scalp, scare, seem, skirt, sky, snare, take, they, Thursday, tight, troll, trust, ugly, want,
wand, window, wrong, wise,
Who knew that listings in a TV guide can provide a wealth of material for the ESL classroom?? TV guide is an authentic source that present places ,common grammar structures and high frequency vocabulary in an entertaining context. Here are just a few ideas for putting this material to use to facilitate your instruction and update your practices .
Adjective clauses.
Plot summaries of films and TV show premises often contain adjective clauses as well as reduced adjective clauses and appositives. You can present one listing at a time and challenge students to identify the adjective clause(s) used.
This book is a useful resource that has hundreds of ideas, activity templates, reproducible activities for:
- News
- Warm ups
- Pre-reading / Post-reading
- Using headlines
- Working with words
- While-reading / While-listening
- Moving from text to speech
