Slay

B1 – Intermediate

There are multiple meanings of the word “slay”. It may often mean to kill a person or an animal, sometimes it means to make someone laugh very hard, it could also mean that something is quite impressive but most of the time it means that someone is looking attractively fashionable.

Let us hear more about the word “slay” in the audio below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the-english-we-speak/ep-210524

Discussion Questions:

1. What comes to your mind when you hear the word “slay”?
2. Are you a fashionable person? What kind of clothes do you wear?
3. Do you easily get impressed? What things do you find interesting?
4. What memory do you have that you have slayed something?