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Keep your English
up to date 3
Teacher’s pack
Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers
Laters
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BBC Learning English – Keep your English up to date
Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Laters
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:
Greetings and farewells
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Laters’ and other expressions using ‘late’
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
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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 ‘laters’.
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 phrases which use words derived from ‘late’.
The final discussion practises some of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
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AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Laters. That’s the word ‘later’ with an ‘s’ at the end. It’s a shortened form of ‘see you
later’, really. Ciao. TTFN – ta ta for now!
It’s unusual though, to add an ‘s’ to a word like that, isn’t it? It’s not the first time it’s
happened, but it usually happens with reference to names of people or names of relatives -
pet names. You know, instead of saying ‘mum’, you might say ‘mums’ or ‘mummsie’.
Instead of saying ‘pop’, you might say ‘pops’, ‘gramps’ for ‘grandpa’. And proper names
too, I mean, Will becomes Wills – a member of the royal family is sometimes referred to
as Wills, for instance, or Babs for Barbara. So there are some uses where you add an ‘s’ to
make something nice and friendly, but it’s unusual to see it before a kind of general phrase
like ‘see you later’ or ‘later’, and thus – laters.
Listening Section 2
Notice by the way, that that phrase ‘see you later’ has changed its meaning in English in
recent times. If somebody says ‘see you later’, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to
see you later today. In my day, that’s certainly what it would have meant - ‘see you later’
means ‘I’ll see you before the day is out’. But somebody left on an aeroplane the other day
and I heard them say to the people they’d left behind, ‘see you later!’ But the person would
certainly not be seeing them later, not for months, perhaps.
So if you say ‘laters’ it’s a kind of modern colloquialism in a way. It has a kind of cool,
slang sort of sense around it. If you say ‘laters’ instead of ‘goodbye’, then you probably
wouldn’t say ‘hello’ - you’d probably say ‘hey’ or ‘hi’!
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
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ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. a shortened form
an abbreviation of a word
b. relatives
members of your family
c. the royal family
the king, queen and their children
d. colloquialism
an informal or slang phrase
e.
before the day is out
before the end of the day
f. cool
fashionable and trendy
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
It’s a shortened form of ‘see you later’
b.
You add an ‘s’ to make something nice and friendly
Exercise 4
a.
False – ‘it usually happens with reference to names of people or names of relatives –
pet names...’ In this case, pet names does not mean the names of domestic
animals, it means friendly names for family members.
b.
True – ‘a member of the royal family is sometimes referred to as Wills.’
c.
True – ‘it’s unusual to see it before a kind of general phrase like ‘see you later’ or
‘later’, and thus – laters.’ Note: Professor Crystal makes a slight mistake here,
he should say ‘after’, not ‘before’.
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
Informal – ‘if you say ‘laters’ it’s a kind of modern colloquialism in a way. It has a
kind of cool, slang sort of sense around it.’
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