Unit 18: IT Slang: Part I

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This unit covers some basic IT slang which may be useful for making friends and socializing in the office.

Did you know? The following activities can be customized as desired by the teacher or school pedagogue.

Basic activities (computer-graded)

Vocabulary Builder Activity

Students will learn the following key terms and phrases:

Reading Activity: A Controversial IT Purchase

Students will be able to correctly answer true/false questions after reading and listening to topical short articles and dialogs featuring topical vocabulary.

People often use funny slang and abbreviations in chats and other social situations. Typically, there is a relaxed attitude towards the rules of grammar. The following is a chat transcript between an older grumpy senior developer and a younger intermediate developer. They are discussing a recent hardware acquisition. Please note that you should not use slang with unfamiliar people. Using slang is… Continue

Multiple Choice Activity

Students will be able to select the best match between unit terms and their definitions.

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Listening Comprehension Activity

Students will be able to listen to short audio clips in English and then spell them correctly.

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Spelling and Recognition

Students will be able to identify and spell a vocabulary term correctly given only the definition.

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Advanced activities (optionally teacher-graded)

Speaking Practice Activity

Students will be able to speak and record 5 example sentences from the unit vocabulary and then submit them for grading by the classroom teacher. If no teacher is available or desired, then the students will be shown good examples of other students' work.

The lead programmer threw his hands up in the air and screamed when he saw the 10,000 lines of spaghetti code that management asked him to debug by tomorrow.

Email was the first killer app of the Internet.

The geek did not have a girlfriend, but he did have a computer named Lisa which he programmed to sing him love songs before bedtime.

"Whatever, dude," replied the programmer when his manager asked him to work overtime to recover his deleted files.

Apple is a company of trendsetters, whom everyone else is just following like lemmings.

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Writing Practice Activity

Students will write a short essay to be graded by the teacher. If no teacher is available or desired, then the student is shown previous examples of other writings by students.

What do the nicknames of these two developers mean? Are they professional names? Do you think it's okay to have funny usernames at work?

The title says the IT purchase is "controversial". Why? Who do you agree with?

Do you think people who save the company a lot of money should deserve a raise?

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