Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on September 14, 2007, 10:59:32 AM
Title: Students
Post by: Mince on September 14, 2007, 10:59:32 AM
I read to my students a descriptive piece by George Orwell about coal mining: "you crawl through the last line of pit props ... so that the space you are in is only as high as the ledge of coal itself, probably not much more than three feet."
I asked, "What word would describe the working conditions here?" I waited for the word "cramped", but instead was rewarded with the word "petite".
Title: Re: Students
Post by: Mince on September 14, 2007, 11:04:00 AM
A leaflet persuading people to visit Big Pit in Wales: "ON A HILLSIDE at the top of the Afon Lwyd Valley stands one of the last memorials to a distinguished industrial heritage."
I asked: "What do you associate with 'heritage' and how is it persuasive?"
Answer: "Boring, and it isn't."
Title: Re: Students
Post by: Mince on September 14, 2007, 11:04:51 AM
QUESTION: What does "scarcely" mean?
ANSWER: Scary?
Title: Re: Students
Post by: The Peepmaster on September 14, 2007, 11:34:25 AM
That student wasn't Peter by any chance?
Title: Re: Students
Post by: Roger Kettle on September 14, 2007, 06:38:28 PM
"There's trouble at t'pit! Shaft 7b is too petite!"
Title: Re: Students
Post by: Mince on September 14, 2007, 07:17:31 PM