Random thoughts, comments, observations and general fluff from a random bint who left London at the end of September 2004 to embark on a new life and new adventures in Tokyo, land of the cute.... and is leaving mid-June 2010 - and counting!

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

What does it mean?

Unsurprisingly (as I'm moving soon) I'm wading through piles and piles of stuff trying to reduce the amount of stuff I have (a lot).

In so doing, I uncovered the following. By way of explanation, when I was working in the college I had to set an end of course exam for the students. One of the questions was concerned with vocabulary connected to animals. Here are some of the student answers. (They were given the first letter of the target words. Enjoy! Oh, and these are all intermediate level students.

Parrots are covered in beautiful fur.

Some people are afraid of bees because they can spite you.
Some people are afraid of bees because they can spot you.
Some people are afraid of bees because they can stick you.
Some people are afraid of bees because they can spuize you.
Some people are afraid of bees because they can stach you.

Most birds leather their eggs in a nest.
Most birds land their eggs in a nest.

A mosquito is an inhabilian that can body people.
A mosquito is an itch that can blood people.

Leopards have skin all over their body.
Leopards have swallows all over their body.

Crocodiles are sometimes hunted for their stanker.
Crocodiles are sometimes hunted for their stomach.

Snakes are reptangles that can poison animals and humans.
Snakes are [not sure what they put here] that can protect animals and humans.

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P.S. "It might be useful one day" really isn't a helpful thing to say to yourself when sorting through your possessions. Thrown so far - a lot of pieces of paper and a santa hat head band. Not thrown - a tiara - well, it might be useful one day - and a lot more paperwork. GAH!

Actually, a lot of my 'sorting' has been more 'pick something up, look at it, put it back down on a different place on my bed'.

1 Comments:

Blogger Timorous Beastie said...

I especially liked "Leopards have skin all over their body". I mean, it's true, innit?

9:55 am

 

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