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Activity 2. Match the statements on the left with the responses to them on the right.

1 How was the party? Let's take him home.

2 What does that guy over there do? Sure. I'll keep my eyes skinned.

3 He's getting legless. He's in the nick.

4 Keep a lookout for the pigs. It's in a drawer, over here.

5 Where's the dough? He's a cop.

6. Where's her hubby? Let's go for a run in the motor.

7 What'll we do tomorrow?Wicked!

Activity 3. A particular well-known kind of slang is Cockney rhyming slang where an expression is usedin place of something that it rhymes with.

Example: trouble and strife = wife apples and pears = stairs

How would you translate the Cockney rhyming slang expressions in the sentences below?

1 Let's have a butcher's (short for butcher's hook) at your homework.

2 Just look at those Gawd forbids playing football!

3 It's on the Cain and Abel next to the phone.

4 What a set of Hampstead Heath!

5 She'll get him to the lean and lurch by hook or by crook.

6 Have you seen my titfer? (short for tit for tat)
Activity 4. Another common way of making slang words is by using short forms or loosely pronouncedforms of ordinary words. Thus fab is a slang form of 'fabulous' and hubby is a slang form of'husband'. Can you work out the meanings of the following underlined slang words?

1 He's my fella. 3 It was a freebie. 5 I took a sickie.

2 Let's have brekkie. 4 He's a brickie. 6 Let's have a barbie.

Do people in your home country use idioms or slang? Do the young people use alot of slang? What is one of the common idioms or slang words used in your nativelanguage? What does it mean literally? What does the idiom mean? When dopeople say it?

Slang is vocabulary which is used in very informal spoken languagebut not considered good in formal 'correct' English. For example aslang word for 'thank you' is 'ta' and a slang word for 'mad' is 'nuts'.

The slang words in the sentences below are printed in italics. Replaceeach slang word with a word or phrase from the following list.

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(a) He smokes 30 fags a day. Too many!

(b) He drinks a lot. He must spend twenty quid a week on booze.

(c) He thought his meal was overcooked. When the waiter brought hisbill he kicked up a fuss and would not pay.

(d) I lost £500 at a casino last night. I'm absolutely skint

(e) My mate stole a car. Now he's in the nick.

(f) She got bored with her boyfriend and ditched him.

(g) There's a good film on the box tonight, but I've got to go out. Whata drag I

(h) I wouldn't like to be a copper directing traffic in the street in thisbad weather.