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Lesson 16
Happy-clappy
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Lesson 16: Happy-clappy
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:
Religion
Language:
Reduplicated words: Happy-clappy
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language – guessing meanings of reduplicated words
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 16: Happy-clappy
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor Crystal about the
way the English language changes. This particular talk is about words that use sound in an
interesting way.
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 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 work, make sure the students read the advice in question 3 about
guessing the meanings of these kinds of words.
Make sure you drill (practise saying aloud) these words, as the sound of these words is
particularly there to be enjoyed.
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Lesson 16: Happy-clappy
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
This is one of those reduplicated words, where the two words are almost the same, but they
just change one little part: change the vowel, or change the consonants in this particular
case - usually the consonant at the front, like "willy-nilly" - and "Ping-Pong" is one where
the vowel changes. Well "happy-clappy" came in in the, oh 1980s I suppose, referring to a
member of usually a Christian charismatic group, characterised by enthusiastic
handclapping and a very extrovert emotion, set of emotions being expressed – but it isn’t
restricted to that. I’ve heard it used in all sorts of other contexts as well.
Listening section 2
It’s a mildly mocking word. If somebody says that somebody is "happy-clappy", there’s a
sort of feeling of distaste about it. And the thing is, that the idea has moved beyond the
religious circumstance now. It refers to anybody showing some kind of extrovert emotion,
some kind of rather superficial feeling very often. You might say of somebody "he’s got a
very happy-clappy attitude". It means he’s just producing his emotions without much
thought all the time. So anybody who gets very enthusiastic and suddenly becomes a little
over the top... starts to act out something... I'm now getting very happy-clappy about all
this... 'cos I’m so happy to be on the radio, and now ... well, this isn’t really very
appropriate for the BBC, is it?
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Lesson 16: Happy-clappy
ANSWER KEY
SPEAKING
1.
b.
Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Church of England, Methodist, Evangelical
(this last one is the type from which the word ‘happy-clappy’ has come from)
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
a
duplicate
a copy or double for something
b.
a consonant
strong sounding letter sounds, not vowels
c.
to clap your hands
to make a noise with your hands, in applause
d.
mocking
laughing at something in a negative or critical way
e.
extrovert
very open or out-going, not hidden
f.
superficial
not serious or honest
LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
a.
ii. It is made of two words that have very similar sounds
b.
Happy-clappy
4.
a.
False – willy-
n
illy and Ping-Pong
b.
False – it appeared in the 1980s
c.
True – a member of a Christian charismatic (evangelical) group
d.
False – They show their emotions openly during the religious service.
e.
False – he has heard it used in other contexts too
LISTENING SECTION 2
5.
b.
A critical or disrespectful feeling
6.
a.
False – it is ‘mildly mocking’, so it is not so strong
b.
True – we say ‘a happy-clappy person’
c.
False – the feeling is that the emotion is superficial, not deep
d.
False – he thinks it is not appropriate
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