Monday, February 6, 2012

My blackberry isn't working

Great video for the topic of technology. British comedy legend Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield use techincal names in a literal meaning and homophones to talk about technology.



We can start by looking up Ronnie Corbett's biography, then watch the video, identify the words related to technology, their actual meanings and where the joke is.

Then the students can think of other words and the reason for their names, and even research the origin of words like blog, wiki...
Finally we can watch some more of Ronnie Corbett's masterpieces (most of them done with Ronnie Barker). As suggestions we can look at the one called "Four Candles" - or "Fork handles", great for homophones; or "Mispronunciation sketch"

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