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Paul Sparks - Xiangtan University, Online Postgraduate (Phd Doctors) English Lesson Plans, Lesson Material and Ideas...

 

 

Speaking Lesson: Using Slang Words


Lesson Objectives: The purpose of this lesson is to increase the vocabulary of the students, increasing their knowledge of slang words and words in common usage in everyday conversation.


Slang: Slang words are common words used to mean other things. For example "A Quid" means "One pound" in English money. Slang is also nicknames or common phrases.


A - Z of common Slang Words:

airhead: stupid person.  "He can sometimes act like an airhead!"
amigo: friend (from Spanish).  "I met many amigos on holiday."
ass (1): bottom. "I fell on my ass on the ski slopes."
ass (2): an unworthy and hated person. "I cannot be friends when you act like an ass." 
awesome: great and impressive. "The holiday was truly awesome!" 
ball (1): a fun time. "I really had a ball at the party." 
ball (2): a testicle. "After getting kicked in the balls, his voice seemed much higher." 
bang: a very powerful thing. "Disneyland is really a bang!" 
barf: vomit. "My dog barfed all over the carpet." 
beans: money. "I've worked for this company for ten years, but I still don't have beans." 
beat: tired. "I'm really beat because I was awake all night." 
beemer: a BMW car. "He wants to buy a beemer when he makes more money." 
biggie: something important. "I was hoping to get my homework completed, but it's no biggie. " 
biker: a motorcycle rider. "He used to be a biker until he got into a serious motorcycle accident." 
bitch (1): a very unpleasant woman. "My boss can be such a bitch sometimes." 
bitch (2): complain. "Stop bitching and finish your homework!" 
bitchy: moody. "I like my friend, even though he can be really bitchy." 
bod: body. "He/She has a great bod!" 
bonkers: go bonkers: crazy. "If he works too hard, he sometimes goes slightly bonkers!" 
booboo: a mistake. "I made a booboo on the last question of the exam." 
booze: alcohol. "The party was fun, even though there wasn't any booze." 
boss: excellent; great. "The party is totally boss!" 
bread: money. "Can I borrow some bread?" 
brew (1): coffee. "Every morning he needs a fresh cup of brew." 
brew (2): beer. "Do you want another brew, dude?" 
bull: bullshit; lie. "That's a bunch of bull!" 
bullshit: lie; dishonesty. "I don't like people that bullshit me" 
bushed: extremely tired. "I'm completely bushed." 
butt: the buttocks. "Stop sitting on your butt and help me wash the dishes!" 
cheesy: cheap; outmoded. "Why are you wearing such cheesy clothes?" 
cool: excellent; superb. "This is totally cool!" 
couch potato: a person who watches too much television. "Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?" 
crap (1): something worthless. "My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap." 
crap (2): excrement. "Yuck! I stepped on dog crap!" 
crap (3): falsehoods and lies. "I've had enough of your crap." 
deck: to hit someone. "His wife almost decked him when he returned home with lipstick on his shirt." 
dicey: unpredictable; risky. "Gambling is a dicey occupation." 
dirty: offensive; pornographic. "Stop looking at the pictures in that dirty magazine!" 
dorky: strange; peculiar. "If you keep acting so dorky, you'll never get a girlfriend!" 
dude: a male. "That's really cool, dude!" 
dinosaur: something old or out of date. "I'd love to surf the Net, but unfortunately my computer is a dinosaur." 
el cheapo: something cheap. "Since I don't make much money, I always purchase the el cheapo brand." 
evil: great; excellent. "Your car is really evil!" 
fab: fabulous. "That is really fab!" 
flaky: unpredictable. "I waited four hours for my flaky friend to show up." 
flashback: sudden memory. "In Little Tokyo I had a flashback to my days living in Japan." 
flick: movie. "Let's go out tonight and watch a flick." 
freebie: something that does not cost money. "My trip to New York was a freebie." 
French kiss: kissing with the tongue. "She is always trying to French kiss him!" 
geek: someone who works too hard, more intelligent than usual, slightly unattractive. "Bill Gates is kind of a geek." 
get it: to understand something. "Sorry, but I just don't get it." 
get naked: to completely relax and have a good time. "Let's get naked tonight!" 
glitch: flaw. "There must be a glitch in this software." 
go bananas: go slightly mad. "This project is causing me to go bananas!" 
goof (1): a silly and foolish person. "What a goof you are!" 
goof (2): make a mistake. I really goofed on the test today." 
goof up: make a mistake. "Oh no! I really goofed up!" 
goofy: silly. "Kids always make me feel goofy!" 
grand: one thousand dollars. "He's making over a hundred grand a year!" 
grass: marijuana. "Have you ever smoked grass?" 
grub: food. "Where's the grub?!" 
grubby: not clean. "I always feel grubby in the morning." 
guts: courage. "It took a lot of guts to ask his boss for a raise." 
hickey: a love bite on the skin. "Wow! Is that a hickey on your neck?" 
hip: sensible; informed. "He really tries hard to be hip." 
hooker: prostitute. "You'll find a lot of hookers in the red light district." 
horny: sexually stimulated; in the mood for sex. "Red wine seems to make my boyfriend horny."
hot (1): popular. "He is really hot now." 
hot (2): sexy. "Wow! she is really hot!" 
humungous: really big. "American supermarkets are humungous." 
hyper: overly excited. "Children often get hyper when they are tired." 
icky: unpleasant. "The food is really icky in the school cafeteria." 
I'm outta here: I'm leaving; I'm departing. "Sorry, but I'm outta here, dude." 
in: fashionable. "Ray-Ban sunglasses are really in now." 
jam (1): trouble. "If you're in a jam, I promise to help you." 
jam (2): improvise (musically). "I'd love to jam with Bon Jovi!" 
jerk: stupid or annoying person. "How could you go out with such a jerk?" 
john: toilet. "Where's the john?" 
K (k): a thousand. "I could retire with 100 K (k)!" 
kick back: relax and enjoy. "I wish I could kick back at the beach today." 
killer: something exceptional or great. "Wow, your boyfriend is killer!" 
knock: condemn. "Don't knock it unless you've tried it." 
knockout: beautiful woman; handsome man. "She is a knockout!" 
laid back: relaxed; calm. "I always feel laid back at the beach." 
lame: incompetent. "Dave is really lame when is comes to fixing his car." 
lip: cheeky talk. "My students are always giving me lip!" 
loser: a bungling and worthless person. "Why are you dating such a loser?" 
make waves: cause problems. "Teachers don't like students to make waves." 
max, to the : maximum. "I'm happy to the max." 
mega: big. "American restaurants serve mega portions of food." 
megabucks: a large amount of money. "It takes megabucks to live in Japan." 
mellow: relaxed. "I'm feeling very mellow this evening." 
mickey-mouse: unimportant; time-wasting. "I'm sick of this mickey-mouse job." 
neat: cool; great. "Isn't my new car neat?" 
nuke (1): nuclear weapon. "This world had too many nukes." 
nuke (2): destroy; delete. "Sorry, but I accidentally nuked your e-mail message." 
nuke (3): cook something in the microwave oven. "Can you nuke this frozen pizza for me?" 
nut (1): odd or crazy person. "Why are you always acting like a nut?" 
nut (2): someone passionate about something. "I'm a nut about computers." 
nuts: testicles. "Don't ever kick me in the nuts." 
okay: decent. "My boss is an okay person." 
OK: decent. "He is an ok person." 
pad: someone's home. "Can I sleep at your pad tonight?" 
party: celebrate. "Let's party tonight!" 
party animal: someone that loves parties. "He has been known to sometimes be a party animal." 
paws: hands. "Get your paws off me!" 
peanuts: very little money. "I love my job, but the pay is peanuts." 
pee: to urinate. "I always have to pee after drinking beer." 
piss: to urinate. "My dog pissed on me!" 
pissed off: angry; upset. "I'm really pissed off with you." 
plastered: drunk. "Why does he always get plastered?" 
pot: marijuana. "It's easy to buy pot in the big city." 
pro: someone who's good at something; professional. "She's really a pro at golf." 
psycho: crazy person. "Stay away from that psycho!" 
puke: vomit. "Alcohol makes some people puke." 
quick and dirty: done fast, but not well. "The mechanic did a quick and dirty repair on my car." 
racket (1): noise. "Small kids can make a lot of racket." 
racket (2): something that's dishonest or deceptive. "The Tobacco Industry is quite a racket." 
racket (3): an occupation. "I've been in this racket for fourteen years." 
rat: a despicable person. "I thought I loved you, but now I know you're really a rat." 
rear: buttocks. "Dave fell on his rear (end)." 
riot, a : something or someone very funny. "Jim Carrey is a riot!" 
rip off (1): stealing. "Someone ripped off my car." 
rip off (2): fraud. "I paid $10,000 for my computer. What a rip off!" 
rocking: great; excellent. "This class is really rocking!" 
rug rat: a child. "He has a couple of rug rats at home." 
screw up: to make a mistake. "I screwed up on the driving test, so I didn't pass." 
screw-up: a person who makes a mistake. "Why are you such a screw-up?" 
scum: a despicable individual. "Don't hang around with that kind of scum." 
shades: sunglasses. "Those are really cool shades!" 
shoot some hoops: play basketball. "Let's shoot some hoops!" 
silks: clothing. "Those are really awesome silks!" 
solid (1): really good; cool. "This is totally solid!"
solid (2): consecutive. "It's been raining for seven solid days." 
specs: eyeglasses. "I didn't know that you wore specs." 
split: to leave. "Let's split from here now." 
stoned (out): drunk from drugs or alcohol. "I'm really stoned (out), dude!" 
suck: to be bad and unacceptable. "That song really sucks!" 
thou: thousand. "I need to borrow a hundred thou." 
threads: clothing. "My wife spent $900 on new threads." 
ticker (1): the heart. "My grandfather has a bad ticker." 
ticker (2): a watch. "Wow! That's a really cool ticker!" 
totally: really; completely. "That's totally awesome, dude!" 
umpteen: many; countless. "I've asked you umpteen times to show me the money!" 
uptight: nervous; anxious. "Why are you so uptight?" 
vanilla (1): plain. "She drives a vanilla car." 
vanilla (2): Caucasian. "The Midwest is too vanilla for me." 
wad: roll of money. "It's dangerous to carry a big wad in your pocket." 
wasted: killed. "A lot of people get wasted in the streets of New York." 
wheels: car; motorcycle. "If you want to live in Los Angeles, you've got to get some wheels" 
whiz (1): someone who shows a special talent for something. "Einstein was a whiz in Physics." 
whiz (2): to urinate. "I really have to take a whiz." 
wimpy: weak. "Don't be so wimpy!" 
winks, get some: sleep. "I really need to get some winks" 
yank (1): bother; harass. "Stop yanking me, okay?" 
Yank (2): a Yankee; an American. "He is a Yank." 
zip: nothing. "I don't know zip about you."




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