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It could solely be mid-Might, however a lot of my Tenth-grade hard-of-hearing and deaf college students are as stressed as if the summer time holidays had been starting subsequent week! Those that aren’t absent, that’s…
So, I introduced out this outdated exercise associated to texting abbreviations , utilizing one in every of my favourite animated quick movies “The Current”.
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Outdated.
Sure, outdated, about seven years outdated.
I used to be involved that maybe among the abbreviations wouldn’t be related these days however that simply added curiosity to the exercise. The scholars commented on which of them they thought had been passe and which had been nonetheless in use. Some had been suprised to find which phrases a well-known abbreviation truly represented – LOL is Laughing Out Loud and never “can’t cease laughing”!
CUS (See you quickly!) – shocked a few of my exhausting of listening to college students, because the abbreviation is so associated to sound.
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The scholars start with the highest a part of the worksheet, earlier than watching the stunning (completely beautiful!) quick video. On this half they’re requested to match abbreviations to their meanings utilizing a phrase financial institution.
After watching, the scholars match display screen photographs from the video with quick senteces, which they have to write out in full, with out abbreviations.
Discover the exercise beneath.
Get pleasure from!
***NOTE: I’m leaving the hyperlink to the net model. HOWEVER, it is NOT a self-check exercise, so you like to obtain the PDF.
Right here is the net worksheet: utilizing-the-gift-of-texting
Here’s a hyperlink to the video: “The Current”
Listed below are two downloadable recordsdata: one of many worksheet and one of many reply key.
Using the present of texting, the Reply sheet