English Interjections

Educational department of the Altai republic
Municipal educational institution School №1

School-practical conference

English department

“English Interjections”

Made by: Chekurasheva A.

Form: 6 “A”, School №1

Teacher : Skudarnova T.A.

Gorno-Altaisk,

Content:

Introduction……………………………………………………………………...3

1. English interjections……………………………………………………...4

2. Research work………………………………………………………….. .6

   1. 2.1 OKey – dOKey……………..……………………………………………...6

   2. 2.2 Survey…………………………………………………………………….7

Conclusion………………………………………………………………………8

Bibliography…………………………………………………………………….9

Appendix…………………………………………………………………….....10

Introduction

Interjections are words used to express our emotions and they have no connection or relationship grammatically to the sentence. So you can use it or not, but they are very common in English conversations. I think that it’s very important to know them, their meanings and emotions they describe. In our report you will learn 12 interjections and get acquire with the origin and meanings of OK.

The aim of our research is to study the most popular interjections.

Goals of our research are:

1. to examine books, websites and find out the most popular interjections.

2. to study the origin of Okey-Dokey,

3. to make a survey of understanding of OK using and its meanings between pupils.

English interjections

Examining books, websites we found out some interesting interjections which we supposed to be ones of the most interesting. Let’s get acquire.

1) Shoo! – Кыш!Брысь!

Used to drive away unwanted people, animals

Eg. - Shoo! Get out, silly dog!

2) Phew! – Фу!Уф!Фрр!

Used to show impatience, disgust, discomfort.

-Pew! It`s awful!

3) Huh !?! – A!?! Чего!?!Ха!?!

Used to show surprise, contempt.

-Huh !?! That’s not true! What are you talking about!?!

4) Oops! – Ой!Черт!

Used when you make a mistake or react to someone else’s mistake.

-Oops! I did it again!

4) Mmm! Yum! – Ммм!Ням!Ням !

Used to show pleasure or anticipation of something pleasant.

• Mmm! It’s delicious!

5) Oh! – Ох!Ах! О!

Used to show surprise, pain, fear, pleasure, joy, delight. The meaning depends on how you say it.

• Oh,no!

• Oh, sweetie!

6) Gee! Geez! – Ого!Нузнаешь!Вот это да!

Used to show surprise, admiration, perplexity.

• Gee, Potter! You did it!

• Geez! You are not allowed to say it.

7) Woow! – Вау!Ого!Ухты!

Used to show surprise, admiration

• Wow! It`s amazing!

8) Yuck! - Фу!

Used to showdisgust.

• Yuck!

• What’s the matter?

9) Ouch! – Ай!Ой!Ау!

Used to show pain, fear.

• Ouch! It hurts!

10) Shh! – Тссс!

Used to show to tell someone to be quit.

• Shh! Alice is sleeping.

11) Duh! – Даладно!Ага!

Used to show sarcasm, implies that the person is stupid.

• Hey, did you know that you can share pictures on Kontact?

• Duh!

12) Um/Uh! – ммм!

Used to make pause while you think of what to say next.

• How many students are in your school?

• Um… I am not sure…

Research

Okey-dokey

We use it in our every day life. It became international interjection but what do we know about it? Most of you answer that you do know it let’s check it up. First of all i`d like to tell about its origin.

This little phrase is a variant of okay. It is 20th century American and first appears in print in a 1932 edition of American Speech and here is another Okey-dokey and the variant okey-doke indeed mean O.K. and are simply playful versions of it. They did not, however, appear in print until the 1930's, and while O.K. is now considered colloquial (i.e., fine for use in conversation and informal writing), these two variations of it are still slang. 

Meaning

Okay. There are some late 20th century alternative meanings.

1. ok: used for showing that you accept something or agree with something

Synonyms or related words for this sense of okey-dokey

Ways of agreeing with someone: OK, of course, no, yes, right, oh, done, okey-dokey, ditto, righto... more

ok: used when you want to start or continue talking about something

Synonyms or related words for this sense of okey-dokey

Ways of starting a statement or conversation: well, oh, okey-dokey, for the sake of argument, I know, for openers... more

There are several alternative spellings - okay-doke, okey-doke, okee-doke, etc. In addition to these is the comic version The Simpsons that has brought the phrase back to popular attention in recent years.

" Okey-doke, here it is.

We make a survey between our pupils. We asked them a few questions about OK interjection. According to our research we can summarize that most of students do not know the origin, all meanings and decipherment of the most popular interjection, but they widely use it in their every day life.

Conclusion

We use interjections to express our emotions and they have no connection or relationship grammatically to the sentence. So you can use it or not, but they are very common in English conversations. I think that it’s very important to know them, their meanings and emotions they describe.

Sum up, I`d like to tell that Interjections are an excellent way of expressing emotion within the dialogue of your prose. Use them sparingly and appropriately, it can help you to breathe a new sounds to your speaking skills in English.

Bibliography

1.Jovanovic, V. Z. The Form, Position and Meaning of Interjections in English[Text] / V. Z. Jovanovic. - Linguistics and Literature, 2004.
2. Rey, G. Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach[Text] / G. Rey. – Blackwell, 2000.
3.Trask, R. L. Language and Linguistics[Text] / R. L. Trask. – London,2007.
4.Zandvoort, R. W. A Handbook of English Grammar [Text] / In Approaches and Methods in Language Teachingby Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers. – Cambridge Language Teaching Library, 2001.

1.www.youtube.com English vocabulary 11 interjections

2.www.youtube.com Simpsons Grease me up woman

3.www.youtube.com MLPFIM- okey-dockey-lockey-multulanguage

Appendix 1

Do you know the origin of OK?

Do you use OK in your everyday life?

Appendix 2

Do you knowhow the abbreviation Ok deciphers?

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