48 degrees on Monday afternoon... no need to say more.
From Jacqui, teaching in a British School.
We came to Kuwait to teach; however, we did a lot of learning as well!!! Besides struggling to understand the accent, there was also lots of vocabulary that I learned while teaching at a British School.
English (British) English (Canadian)
1. Foundation Stage Early years
2. Reception Senior Kindergarten
3. KG Junior Kindergarten
4. Sticky chair Time out chair
5. Rubber Eraser
6. Clever Strong student
7. Topic Theme eg. Jungle, Spring, Farm...
8. Inset PD day workshop
9. Y'all right? How are you?
10. Bin Garbage can
11. Rubbish Garbage, junk
12. Full stop Period at the end of a sentence
Living in Kuwait
Here are a few everyday terms that I am guessing we might continue to use from time to time...
Insha'allah (God willing...but actually should mean "for sure, maybe, probably not")
Too much .. it is too much hot, too much cars,
Backside .... our driver always picks us up "backside" of our building.
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