What's the Tea on Slang

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

What the dickens?

Learning goals:

At the end of this lesson:

- you can say why it is important to teach slang.

- you know the historical background of some slang words and phrases. 

- can use some slang in your daily practice. 

Slang

/slaŋ/

noun

very informal language that is usually spoken rather than written, used especially by particular groups of people

Slang can have different meanings in different countries:

a rubber 

UK: an eraser

US: a condom

When you are pissed, you are ....

drunk in the UK and angry in the US

 

which slang can't you live without?

What the dickens? 

I'm having a dickens of a time.

What does the word dickens mean in these sentences?

Exercise on slang in Shakespeare

Choose one (new) slang word that you heard today and adopt it. Use it in a sentence.