Canadian Slanguage REVIEW

Name:
Canadian Slanguage at: http://www.slanguage.com/canadian.html

Level :
If you are an ESL teacher in Canada, I think this website might be useful to you no matter what level you are teaching. I think it is hard to be aware of the idiosyncrasies of the Canadian dialect as Canadians. If students are going to hear Canadians use these terms, why not explain them (even if just fun)?

Skill :
This list of terms and meanings would be useful in a Speaking or Listening class.

Interactive:
No. In fact, it’s not much more than a list of Canadian slang terms, and their meanings.

ESL/Non-ESL:
Non-ESL

What makes it good?
It’s a fun thing to teach. You could use it teach a bit about Canadian culture, in a fun way. It might be useful to use in conjunction with some listening to different Canadian accents. Even if you didn’t do an entire lesson on it, there are a few terms that we use quite often that might confuse students. Using this site might give some hints to teachers as to what they are. For example:” The Leafs”. I’ve never heard anyone call them anything but “The Leafs”. How would students know they were a hockey team? I liked “How Zit Goan, (Eh)?”. I’ve heard Canadians use it, not often, but it happens.

WARNING:There is an unbelievable amount of pop-ups in this site (that my pop-up blocker was powerless to defend me from). It would probably be best to just copy and paste the whole thing into Word.