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Lesson 13
Prenup
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Lesson 13: Prenup
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:
marriages and weddings
Language:
Abbreviations: shortened forms (clippings) – pre-nup
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 13: Prenup
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 a type of abbreviation
known as clipping. Clippings are shortened versions of words.
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 read
Listening Exercise 6 and Listening Exercise 7
. They listen again to
Listening Section 2
to answer the questions.
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 clippings.
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Lesson 13: Prenup
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
We often abbreviate words by dropping the endings. There's a technical term for it in
linguistics - they're called clippings. I suppose the word 'ad' is the most familiar, from
advertisements. 'Pram' is another, from perambulator, and nobody uses that these days,
really. And now, we've got 'prenup' which came in in the 1980s I suppose.
It's short for pre-nuptial agreement. In other words, it's two people who're coming
together, and they're going to get married, they're going to have their nuptials, they're
going to get married - and because they think the marriage is not going to last for very long
and there's going to be a messy divorce, where they're going to have to split all their
worldly goods, they decide to have a prenup, which is an agreement, a pre-nuptial
agreement, where they decide who's going to have what, and it's going to save a lot of
mess in due course.
Listening section 2
Funny idea really....but very popular amongst American film stars apparently. Well, it isn't
modern, actually. The earliest time I ever found any reference to it is 1916. So, it was very
common in the United States during the 20th century and is increasing elsewhere. But the
clipping, the abbreviated form, is very recent - I've only heard that since the 1980s. How
do you write it? Well some people write it pre hyphen nup, but increasingly these days
they've been dropping the hyphen, and the two elements are written solid, without any
space or any hyphen in-between. The words have come together....not so of course the
people they refer to!
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Lesson 13: Prenup
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
a clip
A shortened version of something
b.
nuptial
Connected to a wedding
c.
an agreement
A legal arrangement or contract
d.
a reference
When you mention another person or thing
e.
recent
New, not very old
f.
a hyphen
A punctuation mark written as a dash -
LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
a.
prenup
b.
a pre-nuptial agreement
4.
a.
Clippings
b.
ad
c.
pram
d.
the 1980s
e.
It is used when there is a divorce. It is used to decide who gets what from the shared
possessions
LISTENING SECTION 2
5.
The USA
6.
a.
True
b.
False – The early references are in 1916
c.
False - It (the use) is increasing elsewhere
d.
False – The clipping is very recent (since the 1980s)
7.
pre-nup and prenup
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