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Bling
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Bling
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:
Music and culture – the word ‘bling’
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Bling’ and other sound-symbolic words (light and sound)
Materials:
Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
Listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary and language
Audio script – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Bling
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor David Crystal, an
expert on the English language, and that the talk is about the way English is changing. This
particular talk is about the word ‘bling’.
B
Hand out
Student Worksheet 1
. Students do
Speaking, Exercise 1
in small groups or
pairs.
C
Students do
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: Section 1, Exercise 3
and then listen to Section 1 of the talk.
They answer the questions ‘a’ and ‘b‘.
Students listen again and do
Listening: Section 1, Exercise 4
.
E
Hand out
Student Worksheet 2
Students read
Listening: Section 2, Exercise 5
and then listen to Section 2 of the talk.
They answer question ‘a‘.
F
Students try to answer
Listening: Section 2, Exercise 6
. They listen again to 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 audio script and play the
complete talk as they read.
The language work focuses on other sound symbolic words connected to light and sound.
Students will find dictionaries useful, but don’t let them use them for
Exercise 8a
–
encourage them to say the words and guess if they are ‘light’ or ‘sound’ words.
The final discussion activity is connected to the topic of the lesson – music and culture –
and not the language point.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Bling
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Bling, bling – it arrived in English in the late 1990s, used to describe diamonds and
jewellery and all kinds of showy clothing, accoutrements …
Well, it became nationally known in the USA when the artist Baby Gangster - Cash
Money artist - made a hit hip-hop song called ‘Bling Bling’. And it soon arrived in Britain,
where it was more usually used without the reduplication, you know, ‘bling’, by itself. It
was in dictionaries by 2002.
Listening Section 2
Well, the sound-symbolic character of the word - glistening light reflected by metal - it
caught popular attention.
The Times
ran an article on it. It was the title of a novel by Erica
Kennedy, and its sense began to broaden as people began to use the word in new ways.
There’s a website, ‘Think Bling!’ defining it as ‘anything shiny and worth a good amount
of money’. Cars can now be bling.
And even that definition is passé - a rich meal can be bling. ‘Bling Breakfast’ was the
headline of a newspaper article in New York a couple of years ago.
But the word’s takeover by the middle-classes has made it worthless to the rapping
community. My rapping contacts tell me – they’d never use it now, except as a joke!
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Bling
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2.
a.
showy
deliberately trying to attract attention, perhaps by being very
colourful or unusual
b.
accoutrements
accessories and equipment that is often typical of a certain way
of life
c.
a hit
a successful and popular song
d.
an article
a story or report in a newspaper
e.
passé
no longer fashionable
f.
worthless
of no value
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a. ii. Objects which look or are expensive.
b. Rap and Hip-hop
Exercise 4.
a. False– ‘showy clothing and accoutrements’
b. False – ‘it became nationally known in the USA …it soon arrived in Britain’
c. True – ‘it was more usually used without the reduplication’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5.
a.
i. A quality newspaper had a report about the word.
ii. A fiction book was called ‘Bling’.
iv. There is a website about bling things
Exercise 6.
a.
True – ‘the sound-symbolic character of the word’
b.
False – It was used to describe ‘rich food’: this is food that has strong flavours and a
creamy taste. It might be expensive, but the text only says it is rich in flavour.
c. True – ‘My rapping contacts tell me – they’d never use it now, except as a joke!’
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