Objectives: To make students aware of the difference between sms and formal language
Competence-level: A1-A2
Organisation: group-work, individual work, homework
Task-description:
- pretask: students are asked to decipher a message, e.i. ICU B4 8 :-+ ; discussion about mobile phones
- main-task: students get a list with abbreviations and emoticons, read them and talk about them
- follow up I: students are asked to send one sms message to the teacher´s phone; the SMS must include one or more of the above abbreviations
- follow up II: teacher makes a list of the received sms messages and asks students in the following class to decipher them
hi-how-r-u (examples of messages from students)
© Renata Emilsson Pešková, English teacher in Hlíðaskóli
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