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Thirty-something
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Thirty-something
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:
Media quality
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Thirty-something’ and other phrases related to age
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
Thirty-something
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 ‘dumb down’.
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‘ 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 phrases connected to different ages
The final discussion activity is connected to the general topic of the lesson – life at
different ages.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Thirty-something
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
This phrase, ‘thirty-something’, it came in in the 1980s referring to people of an
unspecified age between 30 and 40. These were members of the baby boom, the people
who were born 20, 30 years before and entering their 30s now and not knowing how to
cope – or at least, that was the idea.
It was the name of a television series. It also became the name of a film. People who had
lost their freedom, was the idea. Children, they’d got now, demanding jobs, approach of
middle-age, gloom! There’s a website which says it’s ‘personal growth for thirty-
somethings’.
Listening Section 2
It’s used both as an adjective – ‘she’s a thirty-something career woman’. And it’s also used
as a noun, as I just did – ‘the thirty-somethings’. And then, the ending got applied to
others. We started to hear ‘twenty-somethings’. And now we’ve got ‘forty-somethings’ –
that was a television show in 2003, ‘Forty-Something’.
Well, it can be any age. The implication is always that there’s a set of values or problems
associated with that age.
Me? I’m sixty-something!
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Thirty-something
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a.
unspecified
not described exactly or in detail
b.
baby boom
a period of time when many babies are born
c.
gloom
unhappiness,
sadness and misery
d.
personal growth
an individual’s psychological and life improvement
e.
implication
a meaning which is not given directly
f.
values
personal moral standards
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
ii. how old someone is, perhaps 35
b.
ii. people who had problems when they were young adults
Exercise 4
a.
True – The word appeared in the 1980s to describe people aged between 30 and 50
b
. False – ‘It was the name of a TV series. It also became the name of a film’’
c.
True – ‘demanding jobs’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
As a noun and as an adjective
b.
It is used to talk about other age groups e.g. twenty-somethings
Exercise 6
a.
False – ‘she’s a thirty-something career woman.’
b.
False – ‘that was a television show in 2003 – forty something
c.
True – ‘Me? I’m sixty-something.’
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