This lesson can be taught as a review of relative clauses. Students are provided a list of slang words. Then they must use relative clauses to create their own definitions of the words. This lesson is perfect for students who love learning colloquial English. It takes approximately 60 minutes.

Preview of the Worksheet:

Teacher Instructions:

1. Review relative clauses with your students. This can be done on the board with some quick examples, such as “A teacher is a person who…” and a “A dog is an animal which…” Elicit all of the relative pronouns: who, that, which, when, where, whose. (10 minutes)
2. Put students into pairs. Tell students that they will be writing some definitions for some English slang words. Give them the worksheets, remind them to use relative clauses, and give them approximately 20 minutes to write their answers. (20 minutes)
3. Next use the board to demonstrate how they are supposed to share their answers with the opposing team. You can write the following on the board. “Tea… 1. is a noun which means gossip. 2. is an animal which lives in Saudia Arabia. 3. …is a person who doesn’t like Coca-Cola.” Have students guess which answer is correct. (10 minutes)
4. Then have them split up into opposing teams and read their answers to the opposite team. Tell them to award points to the opposing team if they guess the correct answer, but award points to themselves if the opposing team can’t guess correctly. Monitor the groups to make sure they’re playing correctly. (20 minutes)
5. At the end ask the teams who were the winners and if time allows, you can quiz the students about the new slang words which they’ve learned.

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