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language. And explain what is slang, and differentiate what is the slang word and what
is the root word.
Performance Standard: The students will be able to perform slang in accurate places and
not be ignorant about it.
I. Learning Standard
Theme: Slang
Materials:
Marker
Prayer
Greetings
Classroom Management
Checking of attendance
Motivation/Energizer
A. Activity
Directions: analyze the picture in front and answer the given questions.
B. Analysis
C. Abstraction/Discussion
Linguistic offenses and Prejudice
Directions: This game is called “Word Game” I'll give you a category and you will give me a word that
fits in that category. The person who doesn't know the answer will be eliminated, and also the
person who copy the answer of others will be eliminated, again NO repeating answer.
C. III. Discussion
WHAT IS SLANG?
A FORMAL DEFINITION:
Highly colloquial; for speaking
Rude; not polite
Words used in some special sense
Special words of a profession
CHARACTERISTICS OF SLANG:
Colloquial – slang is almost always spoken. When it is written it is used to convey the flavor
of spoken language. For example: dialogues in novels
Not standard – informal. Often not acceptable in formal situations.
Restricted –
• Variable in 3 ways: By region American vs. Australian slang o Breeder in San Francisco o
Bouncing beef in Sydney
• Variable: Gender
In Austria
• Variable: Time
Groovy (1960s)
Main squeeze (1950s)
One generation’s slang becomes the next generation’s standard language.
Bus form omnibus
Zoo from zoological garden
Piano from pianoforte
Jazz
• For example, occupational, groups, teenagers, racial minorities, drug addicts, criminals.
• Pot: marijuana
• Mass media
• Movies
• TV
• Fashion
• Music
• Cabbage: money
• Borrowing words from other languages: cushy = comfortable, Yadda yadda = and so on
• Being imaginative with words: Taxed = mugged or robbed, Gimme some skin = let’s shake
• To exclude others
• To be secretive
• Especially lower classes, groups that are outside the main society, subcultures, etc
QUIZ:
a. California
b. Subcultures in societies.
c. Urbans
a. To look cool
b. To be secretive
c. To gain popularity
3. What is slang?
a. A Joke
à. Friend
b. Wife
c. Siblings
a. Humans
b. People
c. Rhyming
6. It is a characteristic of slang
a. Not-standard
b. standard
c. Colloquial
8. Sub-culture society is
b. To be hidden
c. To create a group
a. Racism
b. Everyday life
C. Application/Groupings
Directions:
This game is going to be played by group, each group will be given a time to think of their
group chant. After that you will be given an envelope that contains group of letters, you are going to
arrange it and form a word and then when you're done you need to shout and dance the chant
you've made and explain the word to us, the first group to finish will win.
(RUBRICS)
Content: 10points
Presentation: 10points
Creativity: 5points
Teamwork: 5points
Total: 30points
D. Closure
For you class what do you think is the purpose of using slang and how people benefit from it? And
what offenses and prejudice or discrimination of the people who often uses slang faces in the eye of
others.
IV. Assignment:
Members:
Submitted To
LESSON PLAN GRADING CRITERIA
Name: Group 3
7. Includes appropriate practice opportunities of the content. (How you met your objectives?
How do you know?)
8. Includes appropriate evaluation of the content. (Have you met your objectives? How do
you know?
A. Preparatory Activities
1. The teacher comes to the class prepared with the lesson plan.
B. Lesson Activities
C. Classroom Management
D. Teacher Ability
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