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Lesson 4
GM
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Lesson 4: GM
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: especially from science and technology
Language:
Abbreviations: GM
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 language
Tapescript – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson 4: GM
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 abbreviations,
science and technology.
B
Hand out
Student Worksheet 1
. Students do
Speaking Exercise 1
in small groups or
pairs. There is some information about the genetic engineering examples in the answers.
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 Exercises 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.
For the language, make sure the grammatical functions of GM are clear to the students.
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Lesson 4: GM
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
In the mid-1990s there was a new big, controversy that came in, wasn’t there, about
genetically modified foods: foodstuffs containing genetically altered plant or animal
material. And it wasn’t long before an abbreviation came along to summarise all these:
genetically modified – G.M. or "genetic modification". Now that’s a pretty technical
abbreviation; you might not expect to encounter it very often, but actually, you do.
Because it was controversial at the time and people didn’t know whether to put this stuff
into their foods or not (and it still is controversial), you began to see it on signs –
Listening Section 2
Because it was controversial at the time and people didn’t know whether to put this stuff
into their foods or not (and it still is controversial), you began to see it on signs –
especially after 1996, when the food labelling regulations came in, and they applied in
Britain in, 1999 I think it was – and from that point on, people had to say, if you were a
restaurant owner or a café owner, you had to say whether your foods had G.M. in them or
not – and so you walk into a restaurant these days, and you might well see a sign on the
wall saying "no G.M. foods here" or "the following foodstuffs have G.M. products inside".
And people I've often asked them often asked you know, what do you think G.M. means?
And they guess all sorts of things. Some people have told me it means "good morning
food". Somebody else told me it was a "gold medal" food. Well – it doesn’t mean any of
those things. It means "genetically modified", that’s all!
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Lesson 4: GM
ANSWER KEY
SPEAKING
1.
b.
Biology, biochemistry, genetics, genetic engineering, biotechnology
c.
Dolly the sheep was a clone produced in the UK in
The strawmato is a cross between a strawberry and a tomato
The liger is a cross between a lion and a tiger
Clones are genetically identical copies of living beings, produced artificially
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
controversial
likely to cause disagreement
b.
to modify something
to change or alter something
c.
technical
connected to science
d.
a label
a note which tells you what something is
e.
regulations
laws or rules
f.
A gold medal
the top prize in a competition
LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
a.
GM
b.
i. Genetically modified (adjective) and ii. Genetic modification (noun)
4.
a.
True – mid 1990s
b.
False – it was a big controversy
c.
False – It is still controversial
LISTENING SECTION 2
5.
b.
State clearly when they used GM foods
6.
a.
False – he does not mention bar owners
b.
True – a sign on the wall
c.
False
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