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None of that twelve days business here at the TEFL Logue. To round out the year, here are a few numerical links. What does 420,000 stand for? I’m taking guesses as comments - once I get a few creative ones, I’ll give a clue!
And then we have
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If I were not too full from all of my holiday celebrations, and especially if you were pre-intermediate or intermediate students dealing with numbers, I would probably separate the numbers from the sentences. I’d then give one person a mixed-up list of the numbers, and their partner a list of the sentences, and they’d have to work together without looking at each others’ lists to figure out which was which.
Ideas on the 420,000?
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Not views, and the first clue is that it is not really related to the tefl logue.
(Meaning that “number of posts I’m aiming to make in 2008″ is out, unfortunately!)
I know what 420 means, but I don’t know about all those extra zeros…
Haha - Good one! (not the meaning I was going for, but good anyway).
In class, this would be the perfect point at which to make a fun detour into “urban slang” or something. So, from this point on … I’m taking guesses on the 420,000 AND contributions for interesting slang terms.
Teacher! Teacher! We give up! Stop eliciting and just give us the answer!
One final clue - multiple choice:
Is 420,000…
- the number of board pens I went through while teaching a rowdy group of 11-13 year olds?
- the number of exceptions to English spelling rules?
- the approximate number of pages of paper I’ve cut up for class games?
- the number of registered members at Onestopenglish.com?
…king of a long lead up to that one, huh? I was kind of hoping it would just slip off the radar and I wouldn’t have to reveal the answer…
Since this one was a little unusual, Alex and Carrie tie for runner-up. Thanks for playing, guys!
Ha! I see you haven’t got the hang of designing a question that can’t be answered by a 5 second google search yet, quiz master… Lucky our students don’t all have google when we try eliciting!
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