A Game: Out of Context, Acronyms & Abbreviations

Wednesday 8^th October, 2014

Hi guys! How’s everything? Are you OK?

I hope Rodrigo passes his exam as he didn’t come to class because he had to study. Good Luck!

What did we do in class?

We learnt – at least tried to – to express possibility and uncertainty. We played a guessing game called “out of context”. We had cards with pictures of people. The background (the rest of the details) has been removed. The aim (objective) of the game was deducing what the man was doing from his facial expression, gestures and posture. If they guess at the first try, they get 4 points. For every clue (there are three) a point is deduced.

Then, we learnt how to spell letters and symbols that don’t exist in English. How? Explaining how to write that letter or describing what it looks like. Last week we learnt that “ñ” is called “Spanish n” or “an ‘n’ with a curly line above it” So, how do you spell: ¿(¡*ñ©ü)?

One thing led to another and we talked about signs in email address and printed symbols. And we also talked about internet acronyms and abbreviations.

Do you remember what these acronyms and abbreviations mean?

GL   NM   IOW   JAS   GFY   HF   AOB

CU   IC   W8   4U   RUOK?

Watch this video and learn more:

Acronyms & Abbreviations

And we finished the class talking about languages.

For homework – yes, I know it’s Fiestas; but I think you may make an effort and write a short paragraph about languages. These are the questions you have to answer in your essay:

·         What languages do you think are the most important or useful in the world?

·         What language would you like to learn? Why?

·         Would it be a good idea that an only language was spoken all over the world? Why?

This is the result of our 2^nd Games

Player 1	9
Player 2	5
Player 3	8
Player 4	9
Player 5	5
Player 6	----
Player 7	9

See you next Wednesday!!

Have a nice weekend despite of the rain!