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Lesson 3:
F. A. Q. s
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Lesson 3: F. A. Q. s
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:
Abbreviations
Language:
FAQ
Creating new abbreviations
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language skills - Abbreviaitons
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 3: F. A. Q. s
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor David Crystal
and that the talk is about the way the English language changes. This particular talk is
about abbreviations.
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 answer
Listening Exercise 6
and
Listening Exercise 7
They listen again to
Listening Section 2
to check/complete their answers.
Students do
Listening Exercise 8
G
If you wish to do some extra work with the class, hand out
Student Worksheet 3
For the listening exercise, Play the complete talk and then give the students copies of the
tapescript to check their ideas.
For the pronunciation, use F-A-Q and SCUBA as your models.
For the language, note that the idea here is to get students to use the language creatively, it
is not about thinking of actual abbreviations.
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Lesson 3: F. A. Q. s
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Now, nobody knows how many abbreviations there are in the English language, or in any
language for that matter – half a million in one big set of dictionaries I’ve got: half a
million abbreviations, can you imagine it! They’re very important, abbreviations, because
they save time and they add familiarity; it’s a way of gaining rapport. I don’t say “I’m in
the British Broadcasting Corporation studio”, I say “I’m in the BBC studio”…it adds a sort
of familiarity, doesn’t it. Now there are written abbreviations and spoken abbreviations,
and the written ones are the ones that are interesting today – because you can have letters
like U.N. for United Nations and you can have words like UNESCO for the other
organisation.
Listening Section 2
Now, FAQs – you’ve seen them a thousand times I suppose on computer screens – are
computer text files containing a list of questions and answers, especially basic stuff on
news groups where you want to find a quick reply. It’s not a universally spoken word.
You don’t say I’ve got some FAQs – because that could be very misleading, it could sound
like facts, f-a-c-t-s. So most people use it as an initialism, they spell it out: F-A-Q. And
it’s beginning to be used now in a more general way, outside the internet setting. People
talk about FAQs in all kinds of non-computer circumstances. I saw it on a church notice
board once. I’ll leave you to guess what the questions were.
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ANSWER KEY
SPEAKING
1.
a.
BBC
- British Broadcasting Company Radio and television producer
CNN
- Cable News network Television producer (USA)
UN
- United Nations International organisation – peace
IBM
- International Business machines Computer manufacturer
NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Military alliance, USA and Europe
b.
CD
- Compact Disc Stores digital information, often music
TV
- Television Shows electronic pictures
DVD
- Digital versatile disc Stores digital information, often
movies
WWW
- World Wide Web An address or space on the internet
USA
- The United States of America A federally organised democratic
nation
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
to save time
to be more efficient or faster
b.
familiarity
a feeling of closeness or knowing something well
c.
rapport
good easy relationship
d.
a web page
part of an internet site
e.
universally
everywhere
f.
A computer screen
the monitor you look at when on the internet
LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
BBC, UN, UNESCO (The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation)
4.
a.
Half a million (500, 000)
b.
They’re very important because they save time and they add familiarity
c.
Written and spoken
LISTENING SECTION 2
5.
a.
FAQ
b.
The world of computing, the internet.
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