Class later today.
I shared a video to the edmodo group.
It is the first song from one of my favourite movies, My Fair Lady.
Professor Higgings is doing some research in Covent Garden, and it coincides with the end of an opera performance and so the upper classes are streaming out of the Opera House and getting their taxis home, whilst the populace are going about their lowly business, including Eliza Doolittle, a street flower girl. And so it begins.
Eliza is told that someone is taking notes about her and she decides to confront him, Coronel Pickering just happens to be nearby and gets involved too.
What follows is the song that sets the whole movie.
Back from class now.
We started the book! Yay!
We briefly discussed the Getting Sated section.
Here are some of my thoughts (that I did not share in class)
In the picture we see Kanzi and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh at the Language Research Centre at GSU in Atlanta.
Kanzi is a bonobo, born in 1980 ... and learned to use lexigrams from a very early age when researchers were trying to teach his mum ... he picked up the language by just observing as a baby bonobo.
He now knows over a 1000 words, although he uses 40 to 50 a day.
Kanzi is also very adept at problem solving and very good at using tools.
One of the main goals of the Language Research Centre is to understand the role of language in the development of rational thought.
They do not only work with primates. But they are mostly known for their work with them.
Here is a short video from Oprah about Kanzi and Sue (and Teco)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CcVFjRPLLo
We did a little bit of reading from section 1A, with the four cases of language learning. I did not know that Chris Packham had a house in France.
Then we moved onto Adverbs and how they are not as simple as they appear to be. Some of my answers were not completely correct.
It is interesting to see in what positions some adverts fit best.
I must properly read the Grammar Focus 1A in page 138.
Little bit of vocabulary afterwards and then very suddenly the class ended.
I swear there is some sort of time warp when I am in Noia, time just flies by!
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