Well, the idea is really as simple as it sounds - to provide a Nice List Especially For Your Students. I understand that it may not be as crystal-clear by the very first look at the list (linked in below) as I wish it would be how on Earth will it be nice, but here are some rather interesting questions to be mulled over as an introduction - along with your disturbing feelings that you again stepped into something incomprehensibly crazy. The good news is - you did not.
Anyway, the questions:
Do your students with English penpals know that RSVP is from French?
Do your students with a driver's license know how helpful HOV might be on our roads (in our dreams only, but still)?
Do your Friends fan students know what DOA stands for in the theme song of their favorite series?
Well, if you think they do not, or maybe that it would be a good idea for you to look these up, too, before you answer, this is your list.OK, but how to teach anything like this to some panic-stricken youngsters who can think about nothing but killing you with dull pruning shears when a list like this is presented to them. That, my friend, is a valid question.
First of all, pick some every-day acronyms from the list that you may encounter quite easily (it is not necessarily going to be "DESTA - Digital Ethernet thin-wire STation Adapter", rather DJ, IBM, PC, FBI, FYI, etc...), and ask them if they have seen any of these, and if so, where?
You can also collect a few from different areas (especially for students at intermediate+), such as written communication (ASAP, RSVP, FYI, e.g.), computers (WIFI, HIFI, CD, DVD, PC); then mix them all up, and they have to rearrange the acronyms into groups by categories they think you used - or they will need to explain their different choices.
Good luck, and keep it up! (KIU) :D
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