Week 4 has been a very interesting week and I am finally getting the hang of it. I have found a very interesting article at http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/.. recent lesson. Title: British actress attacks English slang. In this article the actress Emma Thompson comments on the slang that her peers and the youth are using in their everyday communication. I found this article very interesting because there are a lot of similarities with the South African youth. I think that this topic can be very helpfull in developing a suitable lesson plan.
I feel, I may have stumbled onto a topic that I might want to persue. Oral traditions and story telling are very deeply rooted in the African traditions. This could be used in such a way that it will enhance and help my educators in confronting their fears in computer usage. It is something they are familiar with and help them to overcome their fears in learning to use computers for everyday uses.
I found the University of Tennessee's lesson plans quite useful, but encountered problems downloading the Word or PDF format, perhaps I will try again later today. Greetings from sunny South Africa, perhaps we will have some rain today.
Hello Georg! You are so right saying that slang can be an actual subject for discussion. I would rather like to touch this problem. As most of the young people chat online every night and they have got a special chatting slang, thus it can affect their language as they become illiterate more than literate. It concerns their native language, first of all. And we must reflect how escape this problem and make the youth not to let slang win them.
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