Colloquial language

1)Listen to the song „The Lazy Song“ by Bruno Mars ( and fill in the text:

Lyrics:

Today I don’t feel like doing anything

I just……………… lay in my bed

Don’t feel like picking up my phone

So leave a message at the tone

……………… today I swear I’m not doing anything

Uh I’m…………….. kick my feet up and stare at the fan

Turn the TV on

Throw my hand in my pants

Nobody’s……………. tell me I can’t, no

I’ll be………………. on the couch just………………. in my……………….

Flip to MTV so they can teach me how to……………….

‘Cause in my castle I’m the………………. man

Yes I said it

I said it, I said it ………………. I can

Today I don’t feel like doing anything

I just ………………. lay in my bed

Don’t feel like picking up my phone

So leave a message at the tone

………………. today I swear I’m not doing anything

Nothing at all

Ooh hoo ooh hoo, Hoo ooh ooh

Nothing at all

Ooh hoo ooh hoo, Hoo ooh ooh

Tomorrow I’ll wake up do some ……………….

Meet a really nice girl have some really nice sex

And she’s ………………. scream out this is great

I might mess around and get my college degree

I bet my ………………. will be so proud of me

But sorry………………. you’ll just have to wait

Yes I said it, I said it, I said it ’cause I can

Today I don’t feel like doing anything

I just ………………. lay in my bed

Don’t feel like picking up my phone

So leave a message at the tone

………………. today I swear I’m not doing anything

No I………………. gonna comb my hair

‘Cause I………………. going’ anywhere

No no no no no no no no no oh

I’ll just strut in my………………. suit

And let everything……………….

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh, today I don’t feel like doing anything

I just ………………. lay in my bed

Don’t feel like picking up my phone

So leave a message at the tone

‘Cause today I swear I’m not doing anything

Nothing at all

Ooh hoo ooh hoo, Hoo ooh ooh

Nothing at all

Ooh hoo ooh hoo, Hoo ooh ooh

Nothing at all

2) Can you tell what is the song about?

3) Think about these questions:

a. How often do you feel like being lazy?

b. What are you usually lazy about?

c. How do you beat laziness?

d. Have you ever heard about procrastination? If so, what is it? What can you do against it?

e. Are you lazy when you are asked to do something that you can’t do.

f. Are you lazy when you say you are too busy to help but really you’re not.

4) In the text were used some examples of colloquial language. What does it mean “colloquial”? Do you know any examples of that language in English?

5) Check this words out and write down what do they mean:

  1. Wanna
  2. ‘Cause
  3. Gonna
  4. Loungin’
  5. Chillin’
  6. Snuggie
  7. Dougie
  8. Freakin’
  9. Ain’t
  10. Birthday suit
  11. Hang loose
  12. Old man

6) English is shortening some expressions very often. Check these expressions and make the long version of it:

  1. Wanna
  2. Gonna
  3. Gotta
  4. Kinda
  5. Lotsa
  6. Gimme
  7. Whatcha
  8. Dunno
  9. Ain’t