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Lesson 24
Bog standard
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Lesson 24: Bog standard
CONTENTS
1.
Level, topic, language, aims, materials
2.
Lesson stages
3.
Answers
4.
Tapescripts
5.
Student worksheets 1, 2, 3
Level:
Intermediate and above
Topic:
Consumerism
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language
: Compound words – Bog standard
Materials:
Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
Listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary and language
Tapescript – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson 24: Bog standard
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor Crystal and that
the talk is about the way the English language changes. This particular talk is about
compound words.
B
Hand out
Student Worksheet 1
. Students do
Speaking Exercise 1
in small groups or
pairs.
C
Students do the
Vocabulary Exercise 2
, without dictionaries at first.
Practise the pronunciation of the vocabulary, as they will hear it in the talk.
D
Students read
Listening Exercise 3
and then listen to Section 1 of the talk.
They answer the questions.
Students listen again and answer
Listening Exercise 4
E
Hand out
Student Worksheet 2
Students answer
Listening Exercise 5
Students listen to section 2 of the talk and check their answer for
Listening exercise 5
F
Students try to answer
Listening Exercise 6.
They listen again to
Listening Section 2
to
check/complete their answers.
G
If you wish to do some extra work with the class, hand out
Student Worksheet 3
For the vocabulary exercise, give the students copies of the tapescript and play the
complete talk as they read.
The language work explores how to make compound adjectives.
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Lesson 24: Bog standard
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
It’s pretty rare in English to find a compound word with a slang first part and a formal
second part. Bog standard is one of those that’s come in in the last few years. It
means…what does it mean? It means to be basic, to be ordinary, to be unexceptional, to
be uninspired – it just means ordinary. If you say something is ‘bog standard’, you mean it
is perfectly ordinary. “He’s got a bog standard car” means a perfectly ordinary car. “I’ve
got a bog standard library book” means I’ve got a perfectly ordinary library book that’s not
exceptional or interesting in any way. It’s a British slang thing; its origin is quite obscure;
nobody quite knows where it came from.
Listening Section 2
Some people think that it’s actually from early motorbike sales, because motorbikes used
to come in a very large box you know when they were delivered – you didn’t sort of drive
them away, they were delivered. They came in what’s called ‘box standard’ – and then that
became ‘bog standard’; in other words, out of the box, it’s a perfectly ordinary kind of
delivery, or ordinary kind of a bike that you bought. But people don’t like that and they
think that it’s got a much more interesting etymology than that: a bog of course is a slang
word for toilet in British English, and some people think that ‘bog standard’ has that kind
of origin. Don’t see it myself, somehow. I rather like the idea that bog means something
rural, you know – the rural people are often in the bog, ‘cause the bog’s a muddy sort of
area, full of peat and things like that. And so bog is often used to mean ‘unsophisticated’.
So I don’t know: there’s three possible etymologies for it; nobody quite knows where it
comes from. It may have an ordinary meaning, but it certainly isn’t an ordinary word.
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ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
exceptional
very special, excellent
b.
obscure
not clear, hard to know or understand
c.
delivery
when someone brings something to your house e.g. letters
or milk
d.
etymology
the history of a word
e.
rural
of the countryside, the opposite of urban
f.
sophisticated
having a good knowledge of culture, fashion and modern
urban life
LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
a.
ii – bog standard
b.
normal, usual, regular
4.
a.
False – “It’s pretty rare in English to find a compound word with a slang first part
and a formal second part ”
b.
False – “Bog standard is one of those that’s come in in the last few years.”
c.
True – “its origin is quite obscure; nobody quite knows where it came from.”
LISTENING SECTION 2
5.
‘iv’ is not connected to the word ‘bog standard’
6.
a.
False – Motorbikes only
b.
True – “a bog of course is a slang word for toilet in British English
.”
c.
True – “the rural people are often in the bog…so bog is often used to mean
‘unsophisticated’”
d.
True – “I rather like the idea that bog means something rural.”
e.
False – “It may have an ordinary meaning, but it certainly isn’t an ordinary word.”
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