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Lesson plan and student worksheets
with answers
Lesson 9
e-
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Lesson 9: e-
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:
The internet
Language:
Single letter prefixes – e-
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Materials:
Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
listening section 1
Worksheet 2 - Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary and writing
Tapescript – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Lesson 9: e-
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor David Crystal
about the way the English language changes. This particular talk is about a prefix which
has come from the internet: e- (e hyphen)
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 answers for
Listening exercise 5
F
Students try to answer
Listening Exercise 6
. They listen again to
Listening Section 2
to
check their ideas and then answer
Listening Exercise 7
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 focuses on other single letter prefixes that use a hyphen.
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Lesson 9: e-
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
In a vote, in 1998, the American Dialect Society looked for "the new word that was most
likely to succeed." And they had an accolade - "the word of the year". And that particular
year, it wasn't a word at all, it was 'e-', e hyphen, the prefix, meaning electronic of course,
as you'll find it in e-mail for instance, these days, a lot. Well, why did they think it was
going to be such a successful development? Well because in the mid-1990s they had
noticed, the American Dialect Society had noticed how many people were starting to use
this e- prefix and applying it to all kinds of circumstances.
Listening section 2
And in the 1990s you got all these developments: e-books (electronic books); e-voting
(electronic voting); you could get a loan from a company by e-mail, and it would be an e-
loan. There were e-newsletters, e-securities, e-shopping, hundreds more. And people after
a while began to play with the word - you will have heard this too: you know about retail
and retailing. Well now you can have e-tail and e-tailing, because that's retail shopping
over the internet. And of course it didn't take long before people started to complain about
the way in which it was over-used. In fact a couple of years later, one of the big internet
magazines said "this is a word, this is a prefix that has to go! Everybody is using it too
much." Well, it hasn't gone - it's here to stay. E-speak is the future!
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Lesson 9: e-
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
an accolade
An award or prize, recognition of achievements
b.
a hyphen
A punctuation mark, a dash that connects two words
c.
a dialect
A version of a language, normally non-standard
d.
circumstances
Situations or contexts
e.
a loan
Money lent to you by a bank, for example
f.
securities
A type of financial investment
LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
a.
E
b.
A hyphen (-)
c.
A prefix. It is used before other words
d.
Electronic
4.
a.
True
b.
False – 'the new word that was most likely to succeed' and/or "the word of the year"
c.
False – The American Dialect Society
d.
True
LISTENING SECTION 2
5.
genuine examples: e-books, e-voting, e-newsletters, e-securities, e-loan, e-shopping
6.
a.
Selling over the internet
7.
a.
False – ‘it
didn't take long
until people started to complain about the way in which
it was over-used.’
b.
True – “… this is a prefix that has to go!"
c.
False – ‘Well, it hasn't gone - it's here to stay. E-speak is the future!’
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