the Devil's Dictionary

Last Week of March, 2015

Hello! How were your Easter holidays?

I guess (think) they were fantastic! We had such good weather! Amazing! But now, they are over…not exactly because in the UK, today is Easter Monday, same as in Catalonia and other places in Spain.

Do you remember what we did before Easter?

We finished reading, talking and listening about Richard Taylor’s blind date. He felt physically attracted to the girl his mother chose but after a while, he found out (discovered) they didn’t have that much in common. He really took to (liked) the girl his friend had chosen. But, in this case it was ‘she’ who didn’t fancy (like) him!

Then, we read about the ‘Devil’s Dictionary’.

This is a kind of dictionary which contains funny and sarcastic definitions of words. It was written by Ambrose Bierce between 1881 and 1887.

 We can find definitions like these:

·         A star is a person who works all her life to become famous and then wear sunglasses so people don’t recognize her.

·         A secret is something which you only tell one person.

·         A bank is a place where you can borrow money only if you can show that you don’t need it.

We use ‘who’ for people.

We use ‘which’ for things or animals.

We use ‘where’ for places.

The relative pronouns are used to link (join) sentences. The relative pronoun substitutes a noun that usually goes before the relative. Look at how they link sentences.

A star is a person.

A star works all her life to become famous.

A star is a person WHO works all her life to become famous. 

                               Link
Tomorrow we’ll continue with definitions. And we’ll solve a crossword!

See you tomorrow!