MAG INC 2012

What is your progress for your Mag Inc project-based learning?  For students who are comparing the then and now of English language learning, you may find this article useful -  "What were classrooms like in the 1930s?".
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_classrooms_like_in_the_1930s

DID YOU KNOW?

Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence:

"I hit him in the eye yesterday."

The word is "ONLY".

The Message:

1.ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.)
2.I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.)
3.I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.)
4.I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.)
5.I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
6.I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye..)
7.I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.)
8.I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.)

This is the beauty and complexity of the English language.
http://www.funzug.com/index.php/funzug-mails/the-beauty-of-english-fzmails.html

Can

http://www.esl-students.com/Can-001.JPG

People_Adjective

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/crosswords/peopledescription.pdf

Quotes to remember

Jekyll


"I have learned my lesson".


"I had made a discovery: each person is really two people -the good and the evil."


Utterson


"...he's a kind of monster..."

Quotes to remember

Crusoe


" I stopped feeling sorry for myself and began to look forward to each day and what it had to offer".




" My skills were limited and my tools were inadequate, but I continued to try and make my life on the island as rich as possible".

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Who said these words?  -Prof. Otto, Axel, Hans or Gretchen

WORDS		SPEAKER
1	I’ve made the most remarkable discovery!
2	Backwards! Of course!
3	Go with your uncle, Axel. Keep him safe.
4	Forward to the greatest adventure of all.
5	Our water’s almost gone.
6	One more day and we’ll return to the surface.