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Rebus 5
Irregular Plurals Poem
Ecco una poesia che illustra, in modo giocoso,
le difficoltà in agguato quando si tratta
dei plurali irregolari in inglese.
Prova a recitarlo insieme alla registrazione!
Let’s start with box, the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes.
You can talk of one goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a mouse or a family of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man has always been men,
Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be pen?
Though the plural of cow may be cows or kine,
A bow, if repeated, is never called bine
And the plural of vow is vows, never vine.
New words
Forget ‘the environment’:
we need new words to convey life’s wonders
abridged article by George Monbiot
courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd
[per sapere il significato delle parole evidenziate,
passaci sopra con il mouse senza cliccare]
If Moses had promised the Israelites a land flowing with mammary secretions and insect vomit, would they have followed him into Canaan? Though this means milk and honey, I doubt it would have inspired them.
So why do we use such language to describe the natural wonders of the world? There are examples everywhere, but I will illustrate the problem with a few from the UK. On land, places in which nature is protected are called “sites of special scientific interest”. At sea, they are labelled “no-take zones” or “reference areas”.
Even the term “reserve” is cold and alienating – think of what we mean when we use that word about a person. “The environment” is just as bad: an empty word that creates no pictures in the mind. Wild animals and plants are described as “resources” or “stocks”, as if they belong to us and their role is to serve us: a notion disastrously extended by the term “ecosystem services”.
The Late Departure
Per entrare nel meccanismo del gioco bisogna pronunciare all’inglese
il nome e cognome dell’autore e ricavarne il significato ‘nascosto’.
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Pronunciation Poem
Ecco una poesia che illustra, in modo giocoso,
la totale mancanza di corrispondenza tra
l’inglese scritto e l’inglese parlato.
Prova a recitarlo insieme alla registrazione!
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird;
El Paso
The country and western singer Marty Robbins
released “El Paso” in September 1959.
It was an instant success.
La canzone “El Paso” è il racconto in prima persona di un cowboy che ricorda il suo innamoramento con la bella Feleena e le tragiche conseguenze che ne sono susseguite. Dopo aver ascoltato il brano, anche più volte, prova a rispondere alle 15 domande di comprensione. Studenti con un po’ più di esperienza nell’ascolto potranno provare a compiere l’esercizio senza leggere i testi sullo schermo.
