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Warm-up

Do you usually use swearwords to address your feelings? What about racial slurs? If so, when do you use

them? Why do you use them? Where do you most hear this type of language?

1.Curse words

While watching a movie, you must have already heard various curse words. Use the words to fill in

the blanks below:

Damn it Shit Hell Goddamn Son-of-a-bitch

Assholes Ass Damn Mother fucker Shit Douche bag

a) Now, well see what this______________ is up to.

b)______________! I almost did it on time.

c) Where the ______________ have you been?

d) You guys are lookin at him. The man with best ______________ ears in town.

e) Jesus man! You are a huge pain in the ____________!

f)________________ girl Is that who I think it is?

g) When they pulled out their guns he was _________________ scared.

h) If Id had to stop suddenly, you would have hit me. I want you to get a drivers manual, and I want you to

study the _________________.

i) Fifty thousand people were killed on the road last year cause of ______________ like you.

j) You should dump him. He is such a _______________.

2.Racial Slurs

Match the racial slur with the correct nationality or type of person:

(1) Jap ( ) German(2)Chink ( ) Russian(3)Nigger ( ) Italian(4)Slant-eyes ( ) Chinese(5) Red-skins ( ) African American(6)Polacks ( ) Japanese(7)Russkies ( ) Native American(8) Nazis ( ) Asian(9)Grease-balls ( ) Polish

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3.Intensifiers

Some swearwords are used as intensifiers. Use the following words to create statements for each of the

situations bellow. Damn, goddamn, bloody, big ass, fucking, shitting,

a)I hate ridin in this ___________ car.

b)What a small ___________ world. So, you know the tri-town area!

c) Heres the twenty bucks, old man. You better ____________ well spend it right.

d) Are you guys trying to fucking me up? Cause youre doing a ___________ good job of it.

e) You want a ______________ photographer! Thats what you want. Not a _____________ creative artist.

4.Expressions you use when

Link the two columns to form some taboo expressions, and then match the expression with the contextual

situations.

(1) I dont give ( ) dumb ass!(2) Cut the ( ) a damn!(3) What ( ) the hell?!(4)Hes a real ( ) off!(5)Fuck ( ) crap!

a)You dont care about something:_______________________________.

b) You question something with surprise:___________________________.

c) You want the joking around to stop:_____________________________.

d)Your friends are picking on you:________________________________.

e) A colleague is always doing something wrong:_____________________.

5.Contextual Synonyms

What the polite contextual synonyms for the words are in bold?

a)I dont know shit. - ____________________________________________________.

b) This story is pissing me off. - ____________________________________________.

c) Shes pissed atyou! - __________________________________________________.

d)I think the kids fucked up the TV - ________________________________________.

e)I shouldnt have pressed that button. Im screwed! - _________________________.

f)Im fed up with all this shit - _____________________________________________.

Thank you to the student Beatriz Muraki for this contribution to book 7.