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Buzzwords
Learning buzzwords is a fun way for students to keep up with what's happening around them. Here are some buzzwords that became popular during the past year.
- Car tone - ambient noise proposed for use with electric cars so that pedestrians can hear the cars coming.
- Chimerica - the intertwined economies of China and America, which together dominate the world economy.
- Green shoots - signs of an economic recovery.
- Netbook - an inexpensive portable computer intended mainly for use with the Internet.
- Social distancing - staying away from other people so as not to catch or spread the flu.
- Vook - a digital book that includes some video in its text.
Understanding buzzwords such as these promotes learning across the subject areas. You and your students can come up with many others.
