Sammy´s Corner

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Can you unscramble these monkey movies?

1. RZAATN FO HET PEAS.

2. BHATNEE ETH TNALEP FO ETH ESPA.

3. YGTIMH OEJ OGUYN.

4. KENYOM NSESUSIB.


Answers backwards : ssenisubyeknom-gnuoyeojythgim-sepaehtfotenalpehthtaeneb-sepaehtfonazrat.



Peace brothers! More riddles for everyone!

What coat is put on when it´s wet?

- A coat of paint!

When do rabbits have sixteen legs?

- When there are four of them!

What does the envelope say when you lick it?

- It just shuts up and says nothing!



I would like to thank your support with this blogspot. It`s rewarding for a teacher of English in a country like Chile to receive comments from people who belong to the most different walks of life. This picture for instance is a good proof of what I´m saying. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy themselves pose here for the camera with Sammy to show their support to this virtual initiative that can offer humour, trivia, and a little bit of everything through the language of Shakespeare. Catch you later!

Monday, May 22, 2006

Some riddles for TMS students and people who like to play on words.

Why was 6 afraid of 7? - Because 7-8-9!

Why are A-E-O the oldest vowels in the alphabet? - Because they existed before U and I were
born!

Why does the dog move its tail? - Because the tail can´t move the dog!

Why is that baseball player like a thief? - Because he steals all the bases!

Why do golfers wear two pairs of pants? - In case they have a-hole-in-one!

Why couldn´t the animals on Noah´s ark play cards? - Because Noah stood on the deck!

Why were the Egyptians good sons? _Because they adored their mummies!

Why was the school for cyclops closed? - Because it had only one pupil!

Why is the capital of Ireland the most expensive in the world? - Because it has been Dublin
for years!

Why do elephants keep charging? - Because they have a platinum credit card!

Friday, May 19, 2006

I would like to give everyone a warm welcome to this blog that I have named after a bulletin board I started in the 70´s when I was studying to get my degree as a teacher of English at Universidad de Chile in Santiago and that I have been able to publish in the two high schools where I have taught,i.e. Saint George´s College and The Mayflower School.

From the very beginning the idea was quite simple: to publish a bulletin board in English so students, teachers, parents and passers-by could practice their reading comprehension in English, get some information, and entertain themselves with pictures, jokes and cartoons.

At present Sammy´s Corner is published monthly at the Mayflower School , second floor next to the English Department, and its main sections include: Editorial, New Trends, News in Brief, Show Biz, Sports and Humor.

In this blog I will try as much as possible to replicate every new edition of the bulletin board so more people can see it and contribute with their comments, and at the same time I will open sections for discussing teaching ideas and classroom practices; recommending books, films, music, newspaper & magazine articles, TV shows and websites; publishing school surveys about new trends and current issues in Chile and elsewhere; updating my students with test dates, contents and study guides,etc.

I hope you enjoy this blog as much as I enjoy taking some time from my busy agenda (as teacher, parent and citizen of this world) to put all this together to express myself and have some fun through English.

Cordially yours,


Sammymer