Grades Hours

Activity 6 “Translate” the abbreviations and acronyms for informal texting. Answer key:

1. CUL8R		See You Later
2. BF		Best Friend
3. LOL		laugh(ing) out loud
4. 4ever		Forever
5. HAGD		Have a good day
6. RU there?		Are you there?
7. gr8		Great
8. TYVM		Thank you very much
9. OUK?

Activity 7 Ask your pupils to read the text and answer the question. Who started the debate about the possible danger of texting?
Answer key:
Teachers started the debate.
Activity 8 Ask your pupils to read the text again and circle the correct option.
Answer key:

1. 
   Some people think that young people who send a lot of text messages, write badly.
   
2. 
   A recent study compared the literacy of children who text and children who don‟t text.
   
3. 
   The results of the text showed that there was hardly any difference between the two groups.
   
4. 
   Texters try to write their message using very few words.
   
5. 
   A Scottish teacher sent some text to the newspaper.
   

Activity 9 This is part of an essay written by a Scottish 13-year-old secondary school pupil.

Homework

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  Make a list of abbreviations and acronyms which you have learned Today
  
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  Write short text messages for your shoulder partner. Exchange you messages and “translate‟‟ them.
  

Head of teaching process_____________________ Signature _________

Lesson 2.A. Application forms

The aim of the lesson
Educational: - According to the lesson’s educational purpose improve pupils’ personal qualities like behavior, education etc. to improve pupils’ ideal-political knowledge, to form their developing skills and abilities.
Developing: According to the lesson’s educational purpose develop pupils’ personal skills, English learning, motivational skills, develop pupils’ self-educational skills, analyzing and systematizing skills of knowledge, develop to report own ideas, communicative skills.
Linguistic competence: At the end of the lesson pupils will be able to speak about teamwork, use all and every
Sociolinguistic competence: - to enable pupils to choose needed lexical units in an appropriate form