During a lesson for final year students Martin and Jo, I was running through the vocabulary related to the topic we were covering, giving examples to show how the compounds could be used in sentences. One of them was “pre-heat”, and the example I gave involved food. Martin immediately challenged it, “Does one pre-heat food? Surely, one just goes straight into the cooking stage.” Jo felt that one can pre-heat food. I asked Martin, “Can you cook?” He went bright red, thus ending the challenge. A walkover. (Though I’ll still need to go and check the culinary usage of the word “pre-heat”…)
(London, 2009/10)
Update 310312: Martin's just posed a new challenge: that I've failed to set the record right on his original challenge. I have since checked with Alex*, who does cook, and he says one only pre-heats ovens, not food, which was what Martin had pointed out at the first challenge. Martin: I did not say I was right; I only asked you if you cooked and you dropped the challenge because you were too busy blushing… (hee hee)
Update 310312: Martin's just posed a new challenge: that I've failed to set the record right on his original challenge. I have since checked with Alex*, who does cook, and he says one only pre-heats ovens, not food, which was what Martin had pointed out at the first challenge. Martin: I did not say I was right; I only asked you if you cooked and you dropped the challenge because you were too busy blushing… (hee hee)
*Alex of other blog entry fame: Memory loss (posted 21 Aug 2011), Not good student (posted 21 December 2011).
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