Upper intermediate lesson:

Lots of ways you can tackle this issue:

Compile photos of hinglish, chinglish, etc and give one sheet each with each variety of English. Elicit what this is, discuss mistranslations, etc. Show each other theirs.

Face2face upper unit 1

Jay Walker: the world's English mania
http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania#t-250418
REmember you can activate subtitles and find the transcription of the whole video. Buttons are underneath the screen, on the right hand side.
2009 talk!

Who owns English?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVZpMR1QaZU

over to you
Watch the videos again and feel free to email me your conclusions of who owns English: is it native speakers, is it the BBC and the Queen or is it the millions and millions of learners?
What is "speaking a language" for you? What level of fluency or accuracy does one to have to say that "you speak a language"?
Elaborate on your answer as much or as little as you like! :-)


Vocabulary seen in class:

Drill a sentence= repeat

outnumber = be more than (in numbers)
outlive = live longer than (in number of years)
advantages outweigh ...

note that not all the words which begin with out- refer to the idea of "more than"...For example outreach, outbreak, nor outdated

Hinglish
chinglish
Manglish = malaysian + english
spanglish
...