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Manky
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Manky
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 condition things are in
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Manky’ and other words from varieties of English
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
Manky
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 ‘manky’.
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 words which come from national varieties of English,
such as American or Jamaican.
The final discussion practises some of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Manky
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Manky. M-A-N-K-Y. Not monkey – manky! It’s a regional usage. I’ve heard it in various
parts of the north of England and up in Scotland too. It has a whole range of meanings.
When you hear somebody say ‘my torch is all manky’, it means it’s not working properly,
it’s worthless, it’s defective, it’s a bit inferior. And then, I’ve heard people say ‘oh, he’s
got manky socks’ or ‘that baby’s nappy is manky’ and that means it’s grimy or dirty, it
might even be a bit smelly – that’s another usage of the term – ‘bananas are manky’ or
‘that dustbin is manky’ - it means it’s rotten, it’s disgusting, it’s got a smell of some kind.
And it generalises from there, too, into personal feelings – if you’re feeling under the
weather for instance, in some parts of the country, you can say, you know, ‘I feel manky
today’. And then up in Scotland especially, it’s used quite nastily, as a term of abuse – you
know, somebody might say ‘you manky so and so’, that’s really quite harsh.
Listening Section 2
Where does it come from? Ah, I wish we knew. Very unclear origins. It certainly goes
back to the 1950s, maybe before. Some people think it comes from an old French word
meaning ‘impaired’. I don’t know. Certainly, it’s been used in a wide range of
constructions now. I’ve heard it used in the phrase ‘you’re going to mank it up’ meaning
‘you’re going to mess it up’. I’ve actually heard somebody talk about something being
‘mankified’! To mankify – a verb.
And then there’s that northern dialect use in Yorkshire where somebody says ‘I’m feeling
manky’, ‘I’m feeling rough and unwell’. That sort of use so upset people, doctors in
particular who didn’t understand what it meant, that they actually decided to write a guide
to Yorkshire dialect to help them out, and so there you get in this list of medical terms
‘manky’, feeling rough.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Manky
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. inferior
of lower quality; of a low standard
b. grimy
dirty
c. rotten
when fruit is bad because it is old
d. under the weather
ill; not very well
e.
harsh
strong and severe
f. origin
where something first came from
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
manky
b.
it has a generally negative meaning
Exercise 4
a.
False – ‘It’s a regional usage. I’ve heard it in various parts of the north of England and
up in Scotland too.’
b.
False – ‘if you’re feeling under the weather for instance, in some parts of the
country, you can say, you know, ‘I feel manky today’.’
c.
True – ‘it means it’s not working properly’; ‘it’s grimy or dirty’; ‘it’s rotten’; ‘if
you’re feeling under the weather’; ‘it’s used quite nastily, as a term of abuse’.
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
i. The origins of the word
ii. Different grammatical uses of the word
iv. Problems people have had understanding the word
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