While slang is not a common ESL textbook topic, it can be fun to talk about slang with your students. There are now 45 slang worksheets that you can use to help your students sound more like native speakers. Here is a slang worksheet that includes a lot of slang and is cleverly organized. Your students will enjoy the challenging exercises but if you think it is too difficult, consider having them complete the activities in groups. This should make it more manageable for them because they can work together. You can find other worksheets on slang in this section so do not feel like your options are limited.
Slang is not formally taught in most ESL courses but is something that students may enjoy learning. Additionally things like ttyl, lol, and brb would be interesting for students who use SMS or texts as a primary method of communication with friends and family members. While slang is not going to be on their college entrance exams, they will certainly be exposed to it when traveling in an English speaking country or when watching movies or TV shows in English. Remind students that while slang is an important part of the English language, overusing slang, just like overusing idioms, will sound unnatural and it is not appropriate in every situation.
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The following worksheet contains two exercises to practice speaking. The first one includes a discussion on Facebook. This is an up to date topic and students may have a lot to say on it. The seco ...
This worksheet can be helpful and useful for teenagers. It is about different words and letter combinations which are used in the Internet, on-line games, SMS and chats. Teenagers can learn someth ...
Hip Hop and Rap songs are something I miss a bit at Busy Teacher's. Here are the lyrics to the song "Homecoming" by Kanye West as a gap-filling exercise, My students loved it. There are line numbe ...
This worksheet is suitable for intermediate students. There's a role play that can be used as a warm-up. Students are encouraged to learn new vocabulary (slangs, phrasal verbs, etc.) in context. I ...
This is a fun (but slightly depressing!) song which contains some slang words for vocabulary practice! It also has gap-fill, matching and word choice exercises. I would recommend this for adult le ...
This is a listening and speaking activity which would best suit upper intermediate and advanced classes. It is a short sketch by Alan Carr at the Apollo where he's talking about buying a property ...
Some nice slangs that students use almost everyday. An activity to link word to picture and after that fill in the blanks with them, students can write the translation too. It can be used just as ...
This listening gap-fill and speaking activity sheet is designed to help students learn and detect some common idioms and expressions as well as giving them some informal English. It works well as ...
Fun song, students listen for correct answers and fill in the blanks with the past simple forms of the given verbs. Also includes match-up exercises with colloquial/difficult phrases which appear ...
This activity contains fill in the gaps exercises, identify the mistake in the sentence, organize the sentence. It's fun and very easy to understand! You can use it for beginner level students.
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There is always a lot of focus on British vs American English. This worksheet can be used to show that there are big differences in language throughout the UK alone, with focus on a Scot's Dialect ...
I've benefited from this website a great deal and I want to thank you all for posting such brilliant materials all the time. I'd like to contribute a bit so I am sharing a very funny interview of ...
Funny caricature of a song on pop culture (especially pretentious young "gangsters") by Jon Lajoie eg. for cooler at the end of course. Lyrics can be looked up on the Internet (Google will help yo ...
I really like using songs in the classroom to reinforce grammar points or to teach vocabulary and expressions. I find that songs work especially well with teens so I always ask my students what so ...
A vocabulary worsheet for BBC series Being Human (UK) - E01S01. Can be used after watching the episode on the lesson or as a homework. The episode might be used with advanced groups on Halloween l ...
This is a worksheet to work the movie "Hide and Seek". It has before, during, and post viewing activities for students. It is really important the teachers give the handout in advance to the stu ...
Collection of characteristic language items used on chat and online communication such as C U L8R etc. The page is doubled with the purpose of economic printing :) Students have to identify them, ...
This is a worksheet dealing with listening comprehension of British and American slang. It's pretty funny: Hugh Laurie, the British actor who plays the American Dr House, is invited to Ellen De Ge ...
This is a simple reading that teenagers will love! It's about skaters, goths, nerds, babes and other youth styles that they know. It includes a list of headings, and they should deduce which parag ...
Australian slang - STRINE worksheet. It's a worksheet where children try to discover which English word means the same as the word that is used in Australian slang. Fun and easy. In addition you c ...
This is a worksheet intended for upper intermediate students. Students are asked to cope with pre- while- and post listening activities. The song of Mia (from Slumdog Millionnaire) is quite contro ...
The worksheet gives examples of abbreviations used in sending informal SMS messages or e-mails. For example, 2 can be used instead of two, too or to in tomorrow, hence 2morrow. Furthermore the wor ...
Another worksheet about slang/everyday/informal English. There are three activities. Students have to read the sentences and label the boxes with the correct meanings, read a letter and re-write t ...
This worksheet has fifteen slang expressions/words. It's often used in daily English among friends and people who know each other very well. I think it's good for the ones who are tired of studyin ...
This is an alternative worksheet for the song 'baby' by Justin Bieber. The other worksheet for this song (on this website) is primarily a gap-fill/listening exercise, this one has a gap-fill as we ...
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