Role Play Dialog: Internet Slang

Role Play Dialog: Internet slang

While Internet slang isn’t always used in spoken conversation, its use is becoming more and more popular. Read the model dialog below and pay close attention to the underlined words. These target vocabulary words will form the basis of your own dialog to be practiced in groups and performed for the class. Each group will be assigned a set of slang words to use in their own dialog. The rest of the class must guess the meaning of the slang words from the context of each groups’ dialog.

Model Dialog:

Setting: Two friends are talking about an online conversation that took place last night.

Christy: ZOMG, I was so freaked when Billy IMed me!
Heather: He did? What did he say?
Christy: He was such a jerk. He told me that my BFF, Janet, went AWOL at her job last Tuesday. I was like WTF! She would never do that!
Heather: OMG! No way. What did you say when he told you that?
Christy: I told him, “FYI, you are a liar. Janet would never do that.” And he LOLed me! I couldn’t believe it!
Heather: Yeah, Billy’s such a flamer, always trying to spread bad rumors about people.
Christy: I know! Well, I gotta go. I have class soon, BFN!
Heather: Okay. TTYL!

Group 1: ZOMG, BFN, WTF
Group 2: IM, AWOL, flamer
Group 3: TTYL, OMG, FYI, LOL