I. Do you recognise these emojis?
II. What is the first emoji useful for? What can you express with it?
Watch these video and find out how people refer to the emojis above, in I.
III. Are emojis words? Do you agree? How often do you use them? Which is your favorite emoji? Do you agree that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’?
IV. Why does one of the boys on the video say that the crying laughing emoji is perfect?
V. Read this article from TIME magazine about Oxford Dictionary 2015 Words of the Year and find out 2 other ways of referring to ‘the crying laughing emoji’
VI. Read this article from NBC News about Collins Dictionary 2015 Words of the Year and make a sentence with ‘binge-watch’.
VII. What are the words used to describe these pictures? (Information on the texts in V&VI).
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[All activities designed by Ms. Xortó. Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for his compilation of lists on The Word of the Year]