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Lesson 19
Estuary
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Lesson 19: Estuary
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:
Accents, rivers and water
Language:
Words that change their meaning or use - estuary
Aims:
Listening skills – a short talk
Language – words connected to water
Materials:
Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
Listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary
Tapescript – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson 19: Estuary
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 a word
that now refers to something very different to its original meaning.
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 it is heard 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 goes through some words connected to water and their figurative
meanings.
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Lesson 19: Estuary
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Words based on locations don't become part of the general language very often. You do
get a few – I mean people talk about "Whitehall" meaning the government, or "the White
House" in America, meaning the American government, but not very often, and certainly
part of a river – 'estuary'! I think that's a first; I don't remember hearing that before ever.
Listening section 2
Now the estuary in question is the River Thames, and during the 1980s the word estuary
came into the language referring to the kind of speech that people are using around the
estuary of the River Thames, in places like Essex, in the north of Kent, and it was a new
kind of accent: a sort of cross between Cockney and Received Pronunciation.
And if somebody said he speaks estuary, it would mean he speaks this kind of mixed
accent. In RP, in Received Pronunciation, you'd say that the word was 'wall' – the thing
that holds a house up – a wall; in Cockney of course it's a 'wall', a 'wall' and in estuary
English of course it's a sort of mixture of the two: a 'wall', a 'wall', with a 'l' sort of sound.
It's one of the fastest moving accents of modern times.
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ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
a location
a place
b.
Essex
a county (region) of England, near London
c.
a cross between two things
a mixture of two things
d.
Cockney
a person or the dialect from the East End of London,
traditionally working class
e.
a wall
a structure in a building that supports the roof. The sides
of a room
LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
a.
iii - estuary
b.
It is a part of a river (it is the mouth of a large river, where the river enters the sea)
4.
a.
False – “Words based on locations don’t become part of the general language very
often.”
b.
True – They can both refer to the government, Whitehall can mean the British
government, The White House can mean the US government
c.
False – “I think that’s a first; I don’t remember hearing that before ever”
LISTENING SECTION 2
5.
a. The accent of the people who live near the estuary of a river
6.
a.
The River Thames, in England
b.
i. - False – “and during the 1980s the word estuary came into the language
.”
ii - True – “a sort of cross between Cockney and Received Pronunciation”
iii - False – “It’s one of the fastest moving accents of modern times.”
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