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Lesson 12
Spam
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Lesson 12: Spam
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:
Technology – the internet
Language:
Spam and expressions using food
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language – idiomatic uses of words connected with food
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 12: Spam
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor David Crystal
about a word which has come from modern technology.
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 and 7
. 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 looks at idioms that use food words.
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Lesson 12: Spam
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Spam. Technology
always
has an influence on language; when printing came in, it
brought new words into the language; when broadcasting first started, new words came
into the language – and now the internet has come along, so it’s not surprising that quite a
large number of new words have come into the English vocabulary since, oh, especially
the last 10 years really, since the world wide web came into being. And of course if
you’ve got email (and most people have these days) then you will have encountered the
word spam. Spam: flooding your e-mail box with ads or other unwanted messages. But
why the word ‘spam’ for this sort of thing?
Listening Section 2
But why the word ‘spam’ for this sort of thing? Spam was originally a tinned meat, back
in the 1930s, a brand name for a particular kind of cold meat, but it became very
fashionable when Monty Python, the satirical television comedy series, back in the 70’s
and 80’s…they had a sketch where, just for fun they had spam, with every item on the
restaurant menu: bacon and spam, egg and spam, ham and spam, spam and spam, spam
spam spam spam – and they actually sang a song about it, and it caught on. And the word
became a real part of the language, meaning any unwanted material of any kind. And then,
when the internet came along, it wasn’t surprising really that spam became part of that
kind of experience. And the evidence that it’s become part of the language is not just
because of the noun ‘spam’, which you might expect to see in the internet context, but
because it’s generated other kinds of linguistic expressions as well. You’ve now got verbs
based upon it and adjectives based upon it. You can now have ‘I’ve been spammed’ or
‘somebody is spamming me’ – and the actual people who do the work themselves, who
send out these horrible e-mails to everybody so that they’re flooded with these things, what
are they called? Well, there’s a new noun: they’re called – spammers!
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Lesson 12: Spam
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
broadcasting
sending out sounds and pictures using radio waves
b.
to flood something / somewhere
to fill an area or space with a large amount of
something e.g. water
c.
tinned food
food which is in a metal container or can
d.
to catch on
to become popular
e.
evidence
something that makes you believe that something
exists or is
true
f.
linguistic
connected to language or the study of language
LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
a.
The internet / the world wide web / e-mail
b.
Spam
4.
a.
Printing and broadcasting
b.
No, he doesn’t – “so it’s not surprising that quite a large number of new words have
come into the English vocabulary since, oh, especially the last 10 years really, since
the world wide web came into being”
c.
Spam is the word for the
unwanted
messages and
advertisements
that come into
your
e-mail
in-box. These messages come in
large
amounts and you do not ask to
receive
them.
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