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Get a life
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Get a life
CONTENTS
1.
Level, topic, language, aims, materials
2.
Lesson stages
3.
Answers
4.
Audio script
5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3
Level:
Intermediate and above
Topic:
The way we use our lives
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Get a life’ and other phrases with ‘life’
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
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Get a life
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 phrase ‘get a life’.
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 question ‘a’.
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 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 expressions that use ‘life’.
The final discussion activity is connected to the language work, using the new phrases.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Get a life
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
This familiar old noun ‘life’, now used widely in the phrase ‘get a life!’, usually in a
derogatory tone of voice like that – ‘Get a life, why don’t you!’ Well, it’s said to
somebody who the speaker feels is leading an unfulfilling existence, your life is empty,
dull, there’s more to life than what you’re doing, start living!
It can be serious, but it’s usually jocular. It can be used for instance to a workaholic, or for
anybody obsessed with something like a television programme, always watching a
particular soap, shall we say. That person might be told to ‘get a life’.
Listening Section 2
The phrase goes back a couple of decades. It was US slang in California, years and years
ago, and then it became the name of a US television show. And then it became all sorts of
usages around radio, television, novels, short stories – don’t take things too seriously!
Chill out! Get a life!
It happens to the best of us … people who pity my obsession with linguistics, often tell me
to ‘get a life’!
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Get a life
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a.
derogatory
negative and critical
b.
unfulfilling
not satisfying
c.
jocular
light-hearted
d.
soap
a TV drama series
e.
Chill out
relax; take it easy
f.
obsession
something you can’t stop thinking about or doing
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
i. it is immoral and bad
Exercise 4
a.
True – ‘usually in a derogatory tone of voice like that’
b.
False – ‘It can be serious, but it’s usually jocular’
c.
False – ‘It can be used for instance to a workaholic, or for anybody obsessed with
something like a television programme, always watching a particular soap’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
The United States of America
b.
ii. you need to be less serious about something
Exercise 6
a.
False – ‘The phrase goes back a couple of decades’
b.
True – ‘it became the name of a US television show’
c.
True – ‘people who pity my obsession with linguistics, often tell me to ‘get a life’!’
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