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Step #1: Retrieve your study guide from Folder A … …then proceed to the next slide!

Word Study Station #4: Idioms, Slang, and Dialect. Step #1: Retrieve your study guide from Folder A … …then proceed to the next slide!. Allen & Stine – Team H November 2013. Formal v . Informal Language.

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Step #1: Retrieve your study guide from Folder A … …then proceed to the next slide!

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  1. Word Study Station #4: Idioms, Slang, and Dialect Step #1: Retrieve your study guide from Folder A……then proceed to the next slide! Allen & Stine – Team H November 2013

  2. Formal v. Informal Language We’ve spent a lot of time this year discussing formal language. For now, the focus is on informal language. Using these links, define the vocabulary on your study guide. • Idioms; • Slang; and • Dialect.

  3. Academic Workout #22: Idioms, Slang, and DialectReview this study guide as you verify and complete the definitions...

  4. Get AW #22: Idioms, Slang, and Dialect worksheet from Folder B. • Working independently and quietly, complete the Worksheet. • Please refer to your notes for any answers you are not sure of!

  5. Using the Answer Key in Folder C, check and correct your work. • Review any concepts with which you had difficulty.

  6. Pre-assess your knowledge of idioms… Go to the following site. Read the “Idiom Story.” Then take the quiz to pre-assess what you currently know about idioms. Record your score on the study guide

  7. Idiomatically Speaking… • Get an Idiom Worksheet from Folder D. • Working with a partner - and using these sources - define each of these idioms. Idiom Site #1 Idiom Site #2 When complete, move on to the next slide…

  8. Idiomatically Speaking… • Working individually, select an attention-grabbing idiom from your completed Idiom Worksheet. • Get a piece of plain white paper (Folder E). • On the top half, neatly write the idiom and its understood, i.e. what you now know it to mean, definition. • On the bottom half, draw the literal meaning of the selected idiom. Use your very best art skills! • Proceed to next slide for two examples. You may not select either idiom from the examples provided.

  9. Literally speaking (or is that Idiomatically speaking?): Drawing an idiom might look like this… Or… Proceed to next slide for further directions…

  10. Idiomatically Speaking… • On the back, in sentence form, neatlyidentify how this idiom could have arrived at its meaning. • Submit to Mrs. Allen or Mrs. Stine for assessment. • Move on to the final slide to complete this word study station.

  11. Independently – and quietly - complete the Review and Quiz from Folder F. • Submit to Mrs. Allen or Mrs. Stine for assessment. • Read quietly or work on something else Language Arts related.

  12. Works Cited/Utilized Burke, Jim. Academic Workout: Reading and Language Arts. Waltham, MA: First Choice Education Group, 2006. Print. "Definition for dialect - Oxford Dictionaries Online (World English)." Oxford Dictionaries Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2012. <http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dialect>. "Tracking Creativity: In Step With Idioms." ThinkQuest : Library. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2012. <http://library.thinkquest.org/4382/idiom.html>. "What is an Idiom?." Heathermeloche.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2016. <www.heathermeloche.com/What%20is%20an%20Idiom.htm>. Mile, A. "English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions - UsingEnglish.com." English Language (ESL) Learning Online - UsingEnglish.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2012. <http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/>. Money, not spending. "IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common sayings." IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common sayings. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2012. <http://www.idiomsite.com/>. MLA formatting by BibMe.org.

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