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realia
plural noun
objects, as coins, tools, etc., used by a teacher to illustrate everyday living.
More about realia
Realia comes from the Late Latin adjective 谤别腻濒颈补 鈥渞eal things, facts,鈥� the neuter plural of 谤别腻濒颈蝉 used as a noun. 搁别腻濒颈蝉 is a derivative of the noun 谤脓蝉 鈥渢hing, matter, affair鈥� (three of the word鈥檚 many, many meanings). The earliest English usage of realia referred to German culture and educational systems, specifically the Realschule, a secondary school specializing in practical subjects rather than the liberal arts. In the United States since the late 1890s, realia have meant ordinary, everyday objects used as teaching aids for children. This is nothing new: in the first century a.d., the Roman rhetorician Quintilian recommended using large letters carved of wood, easy for children to handle, to help them learn the alphabet. Realia entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
how is realia used?
For students to learn a new language in meaningful contexts, teachers must use every instructional strategy available to them, including the use of actual objects (realia), pictures, videos, and gestures to express meaning.
Many libraries contain realia, or real artifacts. School libraries may include various kinds of rock for the study of geology; cultural libraries may possess objects such as the toki ….
slumberland
noun
an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
More about slumberland
Slumberland is a humorous, poetic, or childish word. It first appears in the Decadent poet Algernon Swinburne鈥檚 Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems (1882): 鈥淭he great good wizard … Takes his strange rest at heart of slumberland.” Slumber, “to sleep, doze,” comes from Middle English听slumeren,听frequentative of听slumen “to doze,” itself a derivative of Old English听蝉濒奴尘补 “sleep.”
how is slumberland used?
… Drew Ackerman created a podcast to lead listeners into slumberland.
Every time the boy thinks he has ushered them into slumberland, with the goal of getting some shut-eye himself, a new obstacle pops up (鈥淚s something wrong?鈥� 鈥淚 need my coil!鈥�/ 鈥淢y sensor aches!鈥� 鈥淚 want more oil!鈥�).
foliaceous
adjective
bearing leaves or leaflike parts.
More about foliaceous
Foliaceous听鈥渓eaflike, leafy,鈥� is a technical adjective used in botany and other branches of biology. Foliaceous comes straight from Latin 蹿辞濒颈腻肠别耻蝉 (with the same meanings), a derivative of the noun folium 鈥渓别补蹿.鈥� Folium comes from the Proto-Indo-European root bhel-, bhol-, 产丑濒脓-, 产丑濒艒– 鈥渢o bloom, thrive.鈥� The root is the source of Latin 蹿濒艒蝉 (inflectional stem 蹿濒艒谤-) 鈥渇lower,鈥� which through French yields English flower and flour, and Old Irish 产濒腻迟丑 鈥渂lossom, flower.鈥� The Germanic form 产濒艒– yields the Old English noun 产濒艒stma, 产濒艒sma 鈥渂lossom,鈥� and the verb 产濒艒wan 鈥渢o blow, blossom, flourish.鈥� The Greek noun 辫丑媒濒濒辞苍 鈥渓eaf鈥� could be from the same root, except that the y (instead of o) is hard to explain. Foliaceous entered English in the 17th century.
how is foliaceous used?
This Oak presents about the longest trunk of all California foliaceous trees.
The autumn dress of the foliaceous forest is much more varied and rich in colour than even that of the Atlantic forests of North America ….