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7: Wait, what did you say? Part I

October 31, 2021 Richard Allardice Episode 7
Without a hitch đź‘Ť
7: Wait, what did you say? Part I
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Today’s episode is about language and working out what things mean – generally by saying the wrong things first, and then looking back on them to either laugh or cringe. Features:

  • Blurts and faux pas – when you don’t know what the right thing to say is until you’ve already said the wrong one
  • Demonstrating how irony works to your secondary school students by living ironically
  • A rendezvous with a supermarket checkout machine
  • A starfish and a universal theory of humour
  • Quaint things your five-year-old daughter says after listening to a lot of Enid Blyton books
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Intro
Into the wild
Teaching irony
Date not needed
Star of the sky
Quaint things your five-year-old daughter says after listening to a lot of Enid Blyton books