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Keep your English
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BBC Learning English – Keep your English up to date
Teacher’s notes contents
1.
Level, topic, language, aims, materials
2.
Lesson stages
3.
Answers
4.
Audio scripts
5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3
Level:
Intermediate and above
Topic:
The Internet
Language: ‘
Blog’ and other Internet vocabulary
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, language and discussion
Audio script – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
html
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 BBC Learning English – Keep your English up to date
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor Crystal from the
University of Wales and that the talk is about the way the English language changes. This
particular talk is about the word ‘blog’.
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 the questions ‘a’ and ‘b‘.
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 Internet related vocabulary. Students fill the gaps in
the short text.
The final discussion activity is connected to the topic of the lesson – The Internet.
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AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
In 2001, I wrote a book called,
Language and the Internet
, and I didn’t mention the word
blog. Well, this year, I have a second edition out. In it goes, that’s how fast the internet
moves. Those who blog, bloggers, carry out the activity of blogging, setting up a blog site,
with a unique web address in order to do so. It’s an abbreviation of ‘web log’; a phrase that
was first used in 1997, both as a noun and as a verb, a web log.
It’s essentially a content management system, a way of getting content on to a web page;
it’s a genre, a bit like diary writing, or bulletin posting. I mean, people add their posts or
diary entries, with some regularity, if you’re a blogger you do it daily at least, often several
times a day.
Listening Section 2
So at one extreme there’s the personal diary, kept by an individual who wants to tell the
whole world about his or her activities, or interests and opinions and so on. And then at the
other extreme, there’s the corporate blog, maintained by an institution, such as a radio
station or a music store.
Well, there are even more coinages about to come, it seems to me. The totality of all blog
sites in the world is known as the blogosphere. And if you have a blog and it goes on for
too long, be careful, because somebody might describe you as having blogarrhoea!
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ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
2.
a.
second edition
the second time that a book is printed, usually with
some changes made to the content
b.
an abbreviation
a shortened version or form of something, usually a word
c.
a genre
a type of text, story or film e.g. a novel, a poem, a romance
d.
a bulletin
a news letter of an organisation or society; or a news update
e.
corporate
of or connected to business and companies
f.
coinage
the invention of a new word or phrase
LISTENING: SECTION 1
3
a. web log.
b. iii. A diary
4.
a. True – He did not put it in his book about Internet and Language, so we assume he
didn’t know it.
b. False – ‘both as a noun and as a verb, a web log.’
c. False – ‘if you’re a blogger you do it daily at least’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
5.
a. personal diary and corporate
b. ii. blogosphere iv. blogarrhoea
6.
a.
False – He says they are at different extremes (on the scale of different blogs)
b.
False – ‘there are even more coinages about to come, it seems to me’
c. True – ‘if you have a blog and it goes on for too long, be careful’. The new word is an
adaptation of diarrhoea
EXTRA WORK
VOCABULARY
7.
a. setting up
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