Students learn about examples of slang in American English then complete and activity using the language.

2. WHAT IS IT?
• CASUAL, INFORMAL LANGUAGE
• VERY COMMON IN EVERYDAY SPEECH
• MADE WITH SHORT PHRASES OR WORDS THAT
SOMETIMES CHANGE OVER TIME (IDIOMS)
• SLANG WORDS CAN BE ANY PART OF SPEECH (NOUN,
VERB, ADJECTIVE, ETC.)
• SOME SLANG IS OFFENSIVE, BUT NOT ALL

3. WHAT IS IT?
• CAN BE USED IN SPEAKING OR
WRITING
• INTERNET SLANG HAS GROWN
IN POPULARITY IN RECENT
YEARS

4. WHY USE SLANG?
• TO BE CREATIVE
• TO BE DRAMATIC
• TO REDUCE SERIOUSNESS
• TO BE INTIMATE (CLOSE)
• TO EXCLUDE OTHERS
• TO BE DIFFERENT

5. AWESOME

6. CATCH SOME Z’S
I was studying all night. I
need to catch some z’s.

7. BUMMER
A: What a bummer!
B: What happened?
A: My homework got all wet
in the rain.

8. PUKE
Meaning 1: My cat ate too
quickly. He puked on the
carpet.
Meaning 2: That movie was so
romantic, it made me want
to puke.

9. NUTS
Meaning 1: You’re nuts if Meaning 2: I’m nuts about
you think I’m going
you.
wingsuit flying with you!

10. OMG
OMG! Did you just see
that?!

11. SLANG CHALLENGE!
YOU AND YOUR GROUP
NEED TO WRITE A SKIT
USING AS MANY SLANG
TERMS OR PHRASES
(IDIOMS) AS YOU CAN. YOU
MAY USE THE ONES WE’VE
TALKED ABOUT TODAY, OR
ANY OTHER ONES YOU
ALREADY KNOW. WE WILL
PRESENT OUR SKITS IN 20
MINUTES!
AWESOME
CATCH SOME Z’S
BUMMER
PUKE
NUTS
OMG