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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wuss
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:
Personal courage and decisiveness
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Wuss’ and other colloquial adjectives
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
Wuss
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 ‘wuss’.
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 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 blend words. Encourage students to use their
imagination to make the blend words. What sounds right/possible?
The final discussion activity is connected to the language work – a selection of questions
that use blend words.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wuss
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
‘He’s a wuss.’ ‘She’s a wuss.’ It means ineffectual person, indecisive, weak. It’s from the
United States; it came in in the 1980s. To be honest, I didn’t think it would last, but it’s
still here.
It has a very unclear etymology. It may be from ‘wussy’ – that is from pussy wussy, you
know, the pussy cat. It’s a kind of talking down about a cat. Or it might be a blend of
‘wimp’ – that is an ineffectual person – plus ‘pussy’: wimp/pussy, wussy, wuss. ‘Stop
being a wuss!’ that’s the usage you hear a lot these days.
Listening Section 2
Anyway, whatever the etymology, a politician was said to be ‘a liberal wuss’ – that is a
coward. And there are even Wuss Awards now. I saw on the web the other day, ‘Who was
the biggest Wuss of 2005?’ - with a capital W – this is obviously something very attractive
to be.
The word seems to be developing. It’s become a verb – ‘Stop wussing!’ ‘Ah! He’s
wussing around!’ And I’ve even seen a new noun, wusser, wussers – ‘We’re all wussers
now!’ ‘We’ve all become a complete pack of wussers now,’ says somebody on a website.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wuss
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a.
ineffectual
not good at getting things done or not good at a job
b.
indecisive
unable to make clear choices; tends to hesitate
c.
weak
not strong
d.
etymology
the linguistic history of a word
e.
pussy
an affectionate term for a cat
f.
an award
a prize or recognition of great achievement
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
A wuss would choose answer ‘c’, because they would not be good at making decisions
nor at being brave/emotionally strong.
b.
No, we don’t. It is very unclear
Exercise 4
a.
False – ‘It came in in the 1980s'
b
. True – ‘To be honest, I didn’t think it would last, but it’s still here.’
c.
False – ‘that's an ineffectual person’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
Verb – to wuss/wuss around
Noun - wusser
Exercise 6
a.
False – ‘a politician was said to be a 'liberal wuss' - that is a coward.’
b.
True– ‘Who was the biggest Wuss of 2005?’
c.
False – ‘says somebody on a website’
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