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Episode 203 Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men - Analysis Emma's ESL English
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Yesterday I read from Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men, today let's take a look at the vocabulary.
Luckily the vocabulary in this episode is much much easier than last week's Jane Eyre! But we do have some little blue men, who speak in a Glaswegian accent and are very hard to understand and we do have some tricky phrasal verbs.
In this episode I also mentioned the podcast Terry's daughter recently made for the BBC. It's called Mythical Creatures and you can find it on most podcast providers. I'll put the Spotify Link below.
https://open.spotify.com/show/67sXrKUOZSbNi5dN2NrgLE?si=43137db34414456a
I hope you found this week's episodes fun.
From the blog:
This is one of my favourite books and the very first Discworld novel I ever read. It is The Wee Free Men and is the first appearance of young witch Tiffany Aching. You might of heard of Tiffany before, she was appeared in the Wintersmith story I read last year. (Episode 79 & 80)
Episode 79, Part 1: https://youtu.be/CKwwxL8p8hw
Episode 80 Part 2: https://youtu.be/kuwB08Uajbo
Vocabulary
Sticky - when you've eaten too many sweets and your fingers stick together
Tiffany was going to be a hard name to live up to - 'to live up to' is a phrase meaning you should try to reach someone's expectations
Susurrus - a quiet whispering sound that suggests something is about to happen
Crivens, Gang awa oot o here ye daft wee hinny! 'Ware the green heid! - Crivens is a sort of swear word. Then they say 'go away out of here you silly girl! Beware of the green head!'
Nae time for fishin' The green heid's comin' - No time for fishing, the green head's coming.
Let's Offski! -Let's Go!
Gulping - taking big swallows of air or liquid
Dark Delight - when you shouldn't really be happy, but you're secretly very happy
Plunging - disappearing quickly and deeply into water
Absent-mindedly - without thinking
Sloshing - liquid moving around vigorously
Ridiculous - something very stupid or silly
Taken up - when you shorten some clothing
Taken in - when you make some clothing smaller
Taken down - when you lengthen some clothing
Taken out - when you make some clothing bigger
Taken away - when you remove something from someone
Skittering - a jerky jumpy movement
Yesterday I read from Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men, today let's take a look at the vocabulary.
Luckily the vocabulary in this episode is much much easier than last week's Jane Eyre! But we do have some little blue men, who speak in a Glaswegian accent and are very hard to understand and we do have some tricky phrasal verbs.
In this episode I also mentioned the podcast Terry's daughter recently made for the BBC. It's called Mythical Creatures and you can find it on most podcast providers. I'll put the Spotify Link below.
https://open.spotify.com/show/67sXrKUOZSbNi5dN2NrgLE?si=43137db34414456a
I hope you found this week's episodes fun.
From the blog:
This is one of my favourite books and the very first Discworld novel I ever read. It is The Wee Free Men and is the first appearance of young witch Tiffany Aching. You might of heard of Tiffany before, she was appeared in the Wintersmith story I read last year. (Episode 79 & 80)
Episode 79, Part 1: https://youtu.be/CKwwxL8p8hw
Episode 80 Part 2: https://youtu.be/kuwB08Uajbo
Vocabulary
Sticky - when you've eaten too many sweets and your fingers stick together
Tiffany was going to be a hard name to live up to - 'to live up to' is a phrase meaning you should try to reach someone's expectations
Susurrus - a quiet whispering sound that suggests something is about to happen
Crivens, Gang awa oot o here ye daft wee hinny! 'Ware the green heid! - Crivens is a sort of swear word. Then they say 'go away out of here you silly girl! Beware of the green head!'
Nae time for fishin' The green heid's comin' - No time for fishing, the green head's coming.
Let's Offski! -Let's Go!
Gulping - taking big swallows of air or liquid
Dark Delight - when you shouldn't really be happy, but you're secretly very happy
Plunging - disappearing quickly and deeply into water
Absent-mindedly - without thinking
Sloshing - liquid moving around vigorously
Ridiculous - something very stupid or silly
Taken up - when you shorten some clothing
Taken in - when you make some clothing smaller
Taken down - when you lengthen some clothing
Taken out - when you make some clothing bigger
Taken away - when you remove something from someone
Skittering - a jerky jumpy movement
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