The Fourth Floor (also known as the ‘Teachers’ Room’!) is a mysterious and forbidden place to students at EC Brighton… but, every so often, the EC Brighton Blog will venture inside and give you a taste of what really happens up there…
Today, we spoke to the teachers and asked them what their favourite words and expressions are in English!
Alex: ‘solipsistic‘ (adjective).
Alexis: ‘collywobbles‘ (noun) and ‘infrastructure‘ (noun).
Alison: ‘chrysanthemum‘ (noun).
Andy: ‘blithering idiot‘ (adjective + noun) and ‘manifestation‘ (noun).
Angela: ‘codswallop‘ (noun) and ‘waffle‘ (verb and noun).
Anne: ‘cream-crackered’ (adjective from Cockney rhyming slang).
Barnaby: ‘armageddon‘ (noun) and ‘dreich‘ (adjective… and actually Scottish!)
Brad: ‘cartouche‘ (noun) and ‘proletariat‘ (noun).
Caroline: ‘platinum‘ (noun and adjective) and ‘serpent‘ (noun).
Chris: ‘gardening‘ (noun).
Debra: ‘wobble‘ (verb and noun).
Ed: ‘priggish‘ (adjective), ‘clutch‘ (verb, noun and adjective) and ‘dizzying‘ (adjective).
Helen: ‘It depends‘ (common expression).
Jacqueline: ‘fed up‘ (idiom).
Jo: ‘nincompoop‘ (noun), dollop (noun and verb) and ‘render‘ (noun and verb).
Jonathan: ‘beach‘ (noun).
Jordan: ‘deteriorate‘ (verb) and ‘particularly‘ (adverb).
Julia: ‘creative‘ (adjective) and ‘magnanimous‘ (adjective).
Patricia: ‘okey dokey‘ (adjective, adverb and interjection) and ‘hell’s bells’ (interjection).
Paulina: ‘fabulous‘ (adjective).
Robin Smith: ‘metamorphosis‘ (noun).
Robin Sneath: ‘splendiferous‘ (adjective).
Sally: ‘awesome‘ (adjective).
Sam: ‘tinker‘ (noun and verb) and ‘chutney‘ (noun).
Stuart: ‘gorgeous‘ (adjective).
Sue: ‘yes‘ (adverb, noun, verb and interjection).
Tim: ‘anthropomorphise‘ (verb), ‘splendid‘ (adjective) and ‘smashing‘ (adjective here but also noun and verb). ‘.
