Hi, I have checked and double-checked and things seem to be working. I also think I have everyone’s addresses, which only seems right since it is the 4th week of class.  Please find a few friends to follow. Would some of you mind being spotlighted? I’ve gotten some really thoughtful answers to the questions (and some of you need to pull up your socks a bit and answer using more than just monosyllables. Remember, this counts!)

Here is the list again. Please let me know if you find any links that don’t work.

Hi and Welcome!

I have been away from my blog but am getting geared up (do you know that expression?) for another great semester.  No video today.

On this site, you can have access to online dictionaries, grammar help, the link to your book website, and to me!

Feel free to write me a quick note (= message), and I will write back.

Here is a poem that you should try saying OUT LOUD! See if you can pronounce all the words. Where can you go for help if you don’t know how to say everything properly?

Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners!

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you.
On hiccough, thorough,  laugh,  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,
And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead –
For goodness’ sake, don’t call it “deed”!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)

A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there’s dose and rose and lose-
Just look them up – and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart-
Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive.
I’d mastered it when I was five.

(from a letter published in the London Sunday Times – January 3, 1965)