An easy way into a 'second year' topic - slang is one of the key ways in which our language develops, driven by young people (reasons for and ways in which language changes are vital to understand). Here is an article that covers some key examples - memorise a few that belong to MLE (multicultural London English) for the coming year's study. You might want to notice if some of them are already spreading further or falling out of use. Why might that be?
This is still a talking point - schools banning slang. What do you think?
It is an area of endless research, perhaps because it goes out of date so fast and has such shaky foundations in that people are not always agreed on what slang terms mean and often, if they are ever written down, write and use them differently. But here's a review of a book researching slang where some of the key ideas are explored. Do you agree that slang is often not creative but borrows words from elsewhere (or elsewhen)?
If you keep up with Dan Clayton's blog, you will have already seen these links. If you don't, you should!
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