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Peeps
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Peeps
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:
Friends and friendship
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Peeps’ and other words for people
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
Peeps
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 ‘peeps’.
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 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 refer to types of people.
The final discussion uses some of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Peeps
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Peeps. P-E-E-P-S. Short for ‘people’ really, plus an ‘s’ at the end. ‘My peeps’ means ‘my
people’. It’s not the first time that an ‘s’ has been used at the end of a word like that - you
hear it with parental terms like ‘mums’ and ‘pops’. But it was only in the 1990s, that I
heard ‘peeps’ come in to use for the first time. I first heard it in songs, actually. I think it
was in rap and things like that – where ‘peeps’ meant ‘my friends’, ‘my mates’ –
especially in the context of a gang, you know, ‘my fellow gang members’, ‘my peeps’,
‘these are my guys’.
Listening Section 2
And then I heard it with reference to parents, ‘come and meet my peeps’ – that was back in
the 1980s. Less used now, I think - ‘peeps’ as ‘gang members’ is more common.
And I’ve heard it in a more general context too – ‘how many peeps are coming to the party
tonight?’ – meaning, you know, ‘how many people are coming to the party?’ Or, ‘Joe’s
chilling out with his peeps’ – ‘Joe’s chilling out with his mates’. So the general usage is
‘close pals’, ‘people you hang out with’. But it’s definitely a young usage - I have got
peeps, I suppose, but I’ve never, ever, referred to them as such.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Peeps
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. parental terms
words which refer to your mother and father
b. rap
a type of popular music, in which the lyrics are spoken
rather than sung
c. mates
an informal word for
friends
d. a gang
a group of people who are close friends
e.
to chill out with someone
to relax with someone
f. pals
an informal word for friends
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
It’s a shortened form of ‘people’.
Exercise 4
a.
False – ‘It’s not the first time that an ‘s’ has been used at the end of a word like that –
you hear it with parental terms like ‘mums’ and ‘pops’.’
b.
True – ‘But it was only in the 1990s, that I heard ‘peeps’ come in to use for the first
time.’
c.
False – ‘I think it was in rap and things like that – where ‘peeps’ meant ‘my friends’,
‘my mates’.’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
iii. work colleagues
vi. strangers in the street
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