british slang

How can you learn slang or be comfortable with it?

• By reading school textbooks all the time

• By choosing lame friends and constantly use slang in formal writing too

• By visiting foreign countries or by cultural immersions in the real world.

• By watching movies/songs/plays.

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How was my presentation?

• Skookum!

• Tosh!

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Use the correct slang given: 'Screw up', 'Tosh', 'Hold your horse', 'Gutted'.

The dialog is-

Quin: Hailey are you coming? It's already time, I'm going!

Hailey: (a)  

Type Hailey's reply as it is in the options above. (do not add your own words)

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Which of the following is an example of British Slang?

• BRB

• Cuppa

• Kudos

• Jerk

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Brilliant is used in British slang to say what?

• cool, chill, awesome, nice

• bad, horrible

• someone is quite intelligent

• something horrible just happened

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CCSS.L.6.1E

CCSS.L.5.3B

I study in the US for four years, so I am a ______ English speaker.

• fluent

• poor

• rusty

• good

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Cram

• noun
• pronoun
• verb
• adjective

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Uptight

• adjective
• noun
• pronoun
• verb

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You shouldn’t ______ every new word in the dictionary. Try to guess the meaning first.

• check up

• look for

• look up

• look after

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CCSS.L.5.5B

• bail
• blush
• haggle
• zonked

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