The Words of the Year 2020

collected and selected from: Oxford Languages: 2020 The Words of an Unprecedented Year and Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year (blog entry), by: The following words have been collected and selected from Oxford Languages: 2020 The Words of an Unprecedented Year report and Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year blog entries. The year 2020 has been deemed 'strange', 'unprecedented', 'crazy' and 'lost'. Let's take the journey in time and words to check which expressions were born, quickly spread and dotted the English language landscape. Let's play with the origins of these words, their definitions and contexts of use. Have fun!

The Words of the Year 2020 Task 1: Definitions slide 1

Study the words on the slide. Do you know them? Make your own definitions. slide 2 Study the dictionary definitions. Can you match them with the words from slide 1? slide 3 Check the words for the definitions. Definitions on slide 2 overlap with words on slide 3. The Words slide 4 of the Year 020 Go crazy with your own definitions. 2 plandemic moonshot Blursday doomscrolling unmute anthropause covidiot superspreader zumping covidivorce maskshaming BIPOC infodemic quaranteam waist-up fashion coronials Zoombombing the process of ending a marriage as a the people you choose to live consequence of the couple spending a a day of the week that is with during a coronavirus large period of time together in indistinguishable from any other quarantine lockdown during the covid-19 pandemic to dump a significant other the action of compulsively scrolling a global slowdown of by Zoom through travel and other human activities social media or news feeds which relate bad news an extremely the practice of infiltrating video ambitious and an abbreviation of black, conference calls on the Zoom innovative project indigenous, and other people of application, and posting colour violent, pornographic, or offensive content children who were an individual infected with a born around the time (pathogenic) microorganism who of the covid-19 transmits it to an (depreciative) a person who pandemic unusually large number of other disobeys guidelines individuals designed to prevent the spread of Covid-19 a proliferation of diverse, often unsubstantiated a planned pandemic information relating to a crisis, controversy, or event, which disseminates rapidly and uncontrollably through news, online, and social media, and is regarded as to turn on intensifying public speculation or anxiety (a microphone or the criticizing or confronting audio on an electronic someone who is not the increased focus on dressing the upper device), especially after wearing a face covering bodies – the only part visible during having temporarily conference calls turned it off quaranteam covidivorce Blursday doomscrolling zumping anthropause

moonshot BIPOC Zoombombing

coronials superspreader covidiot

plandemic infodemic unmute

maskshaming waist-up fashion Choose 4 words. Rewrite the dictionary definitions using your own: experience, sense of humor, knowledge, creativity. Adapt an unusual perspective (a laptop camera, microphone, mask fabric, virus) to make your definition more extraordinary and unique. Task 2: That's why ...

The Words of the Year 2020 That's why fashion brands started designing waist-up clothing for video calls. That's why fines were being imposed. That's why ‘Just Meeting a Few Friends’ can become a superspreader event. That's why we have seen a post-lockdown boom in divorces. Think what has led to the following situations. Imagine you are talking to an alien or a person who has been hybernated for the past ten months. Make at least 8 cause-effect sentences narrating the reality that they have missed out. Come up with your own "That's why..." sentence and ask your friend to present the logic behind it. Task 3: Twenty questions ...

The Words of the Year 2020 Incidents of Zoombombing have prompted Zoom technical support to take measures to increase the security of the platform.

Write 20 questions that "dig deeper" and will allow you to broaden your knowledge and enrich your understanding of the phenomenon /problem / situation described in the sentence. Next, make a sentence with one of the 2020 words that comments on the issue in question or raises a relevant aspect and ask your partner to come up with 20 questions. Project: Time capsule.

You are making a 2020 Time Capsule to be opened in 2050. Which word-memories would you like to capture? What stories would the words tell to the future generations? Which 10 words of the Year 2020 would you place in your Time Capsule? Why? Would you add any words of your choice? Which ones? Kontakt

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