BLENDS

Take strawberries, wash them and cut leaves off. Take a banana, remove its peels. Plug in your blender and put the banana and strawberries inside. You may add sugar or yogurt. Then put the lid on your blender and turn on.

                                          

Think what will you get a banana? Or a strawberry?

The same process is evident when two lexemes are peeled and put into a blender. The peels are the overlaping parts of the words and the resultant mixture is called a blend, which joins them into one. Here is a list of  blends:

Bash	bang + smash
Because	by + cause
Bit	binary + digit
Cellophane	cellulose + diaphane
Dumbfound	dumb + confound
Electrocute	electronic + electronic +
Flare	flame + glare
Fortnight	fourteen + nights
Goodbye	God + be (with) + ye
Hassle	haggle + tussle
Humongous	huge + monstrous
Intercom	internal + communication
Modem	modulator + demodulator
Motel	motor + hotel
Muppet	marionette + puppet
Napalm	naphthene + palmitate
o'clock	of (the) + clock
Bleep	blankout + beep
Blotch	blot + botch
Blurt	blow + spurt
Brash	bold + rash
Chortle	chuckle + snort
Chump	chunk + lump
Clash	clap + crash
Ditsy	dizzy + dotty
Doddle	dodder + toddle
Emoticon	emotion + icon
Flop	flap + drop
Flurry	flutter + hurry
Galumph	gallop + triumph
Glitz	glamour + ritz
Goon	gorilla + baboon
Pang	pain + sting
Prissy	prim + sissy
Pixel	picture + element
Paratroops	parachute + troops
Skyjack	sky + hijack
Slang	slovenly + language
Smog	smoke + fog
Swipe	wipe + sweep
Telethon	telephone + marathon
Workaholic	work + alcoholic
Scuzzy	scummy + lousy
Slosh	slop + slush
Snazzy	snappy + jazzy
Splurge	splash + surge
Squiggle	squirm + wriggle
Tangelo	tangerine + pomelo
Twiddle	twist + fiddle
Waddle	wade + toddle

Let’s  have a look at the world. A husband and a wife –the blend is their son, mixing colours -the result will be a blend.  Or let’s speak about English and its varieties(see WORLD ENGLISH).Again blends: Singlish(Singapurian English, Hinglish(Hindu English), Chinglish(Chinese English)etc.

And what about blended teaching?

Blended or hybrid teaching is a combination of web-based  online approaches and  face –to- face, classroom learning. It is important to make small changes to the course. If the instructor adds too many tools, the students will get confused.  Blended learning is described as “integrative learning”, “hybrid learning”, “multi-method learning” (Node, 2001). The ultimate aim of blended learning is to provide realistic practical opportunities for learners and teachers to make learning independent, useful, sustainable and ever growing.

 Blended learning is a harmony between a face-to-face learning and online learning. In most blended learning classrooms, there is the ability to study whenever the student chooses to do so. If a student is absent, she/he may view some of the missed materials at the same time that the rest of the class does, even though the student cannot be physically in the classroom. This helps students stay on track and not fall behind. 

  SO, ENJOY YOUR DRINK!