Enter! FILE IN QUIETLY! Red! Put that chewing gum in the bin! Bonnie! Tuck your school shirt in and straighten that tie! Late again Meike? Sit down quickly girl and do not glower at me like that! Steve! Put that mirror away!
Settle down now and listen up! I want you to get your exercise books out and write down this title:-
ANIMAL ADJECTIVES
Now. Does anybody know what the term "equine" means?...Yes Lee?
Very good Lee! Yes exactly. Equine means - relating to horses. What about "bovine"? Yes. Good girl Jennifer! Well done! It does indeed mean - relating to cattle or cows.
Now look at the board everybody. Yes - that does mean you too John Gray! And Kylie - please stop looking out of the window! You will see that I have made a chart. There are two columns. This column is for the animal name and this column is for the adjective that goes with that particular animal. Now copy the whole chart into your books. Yes - what is it Donna?...Okay you can visit the toilet but please be quick! Graham and Briony! Stop that and please - keep it private in future!
Okay, let's crack on everybody:-
Thirty five minutes later... Okay. Is everybody finished? Come on Bob! You are always the last to finish.
There's only a couple of minutes to the bell. Homework everybody! Yes - it is school policy Jenny! I need you to pick two of the adjectives and make up meaningful sentences in which your chosen words are used correctly to demonstrate how such terms can be used effectively in character descriptions.
Ah! There goes the bell! Did I say you could leave yet Ms Moon? And you too Christina! SIT DOWN! The rest of you may go!
Teacher! Teacher! Over here! 👋👋👋 I know the answers!!
ReplyDeleteOk, I knew them all except "earthworm" and "mouse"...do I get an "A"? Lol!!
You get nothing! Nada! Zilch! You see Jennifer - YOU HAVE NOT FOLLOWED HOMEWORK INSTRUCTIONS... AGAIN!
DeleteThere is also Piscine. Of or relating to fish.
ReplyDeleteIs "humine" an adjective relating to humans?
Probably not.
But there is also canine, which relates to dogs and also feline, which relates to cats.
See? I AM paying attention. I swear. Can I be excused now?
You swear? Yes I know you swear! I have seen the swearing in your independent project - "Bless Our Hearts"! What would your mother have thought?
DeleteGood question. However, since she is in the great beyond now, it's not something I worry about in the least!
DeleteHahahaha!
ReplyDeleteNo need to behave in such an ursine way, Mr. Pudding, Sir! Especially with those of us reading your blog who tend toward bovine, ovine and/or murine behavior :)
Quite good young lady BUT WHAT THE HELL IS THAT PUNCTUATION MARK AT THE END?
DeleteRed's lost! Maybe he was outside with the corvids!
ReplyDeleteNot what I wanted at all my lad! Here's an example...
Delete"Stealthily, his murine whiskers twitching, the leader of the birding group crept through the reeds."
I would have been inclined to say 'corvidae' Red.
Delete"Kylie is easily distracted" was on every one of my school reports! I can't help being interested in everything!
ReplyDeleteYou have failed to obey homework instructions again. Please see me in my study after school today.
DeleteWell this is a fun classroom, although the teacher is a little strict! Ok, Ok, I'll turn in my homework. Two of the words in a character description you say....
ReplyDeleteMr. Pudding that new lupine student is definitely wearing ovine clothing to school.
Perhaps I did not make myself clear cloth ears! The chosen words did not have to be in the SAME sentence! But at least you have done your homework this time!
DeleteLike Jennifer, I knew them all except for earthworm and mouse, and I also knew the ones Ms. Moon added to the list. And no, I did NOT sneak a peek at Jennifer's or Ms. Moon's exercise books!
ReplyDeleteAs for lateness, that has never been my problem at school... rather disinterest in what was going on at the front of the room, and curiosity at what was going on in my own mind.
Oh, you want to check my homework, Sir? Here goes:
DeleteI show my equine smile every time I look at the many things in my flat with a vulpine theme.
An equine smile? A horse has forty teeth and some of them are pretty large. Yes - I can picture your smile now.
DeleteThat is exactly what I meant, Teacher. My front teeth are a bit on the large side, and since you did not give us an adjective for "related to rabbits", this is what I used.
DeleteThe rabbit adjective is of course "leporine"! Everybody knows that one.
DeleteHahaha!
ReplyDeleteThere are many ovine humans wearing the clothes of the lupine.
Beware!
I shall bring you a nice, shiny Apple back from Brugge (where I am at the moment)and then I can be teachers pet......😂
Pet what? Tarantula?
DeleteThe average Roman was said to have an aquiline nose. I get the impression that Teacher has a liking for creatures vulpine. Right, I've done my homework now to add that the adjective for earthworm and mouse both escaped me too although I had at least heard of murine.
ReplyDeleteThe islander gazed pensively across The Minch, absentminedly stroking his caprine whiskers.
DeleteI'm attracted to that cartoon......
ReplyDeleteI will see if I can arrange a date for you.
DeleteWhy am I holding a mirror?! (I tried to see if there was an "-ine" word for "peacock-like" to use in this sentence, but apparently not.)
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