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Tipping point
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Tipping point
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:
Decisive moments
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Tipping point’ and other similar compound nouns
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
Tipping point
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 ‘tipping point’.
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 similarly-formed compound nouns
The final discussion uses the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Tipping point
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Tipping point. The point of no return. The point at which something tips over into a new
state, or something becomes dramatically more common – ‘something has reached the
tipping point’. The idea started in physics where a small amount of weight added to an
object in a balance causes it to topple over, you know, add a little bit and it’s alright, add a
bit more and it’s alright, add a bit more and it’s alright, and then suddenly, whomph! –
over it goes. That is the tipping point.
So it started in hard science, but then it was taken over by sociology and popular
psychology. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a bestseller in 2000 called
The Tipping Point: How
Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
. And it became a very attractive notion and
everybody suddenly started using this phrase.
Listening Section 2
And you hear it a lot in the news now, when suddenly something causes a fuss. For
instance, people talk about the build up of immigrants in a country being steady and then
suddenly, there’s some panic because there’s trouble somewhere, and they say ‘we’ve
reached the tipping point’.
I guess I’ve heard it most often recently in relation to global warming. Global warming
seems to have reached ‘the tipping point’, at least as far as the mind set of many people is
concerned. In fact, it’s used so often these days that it’s almost a cliché. It’s as if ‘tipping
point’ has reached its tipping point!
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Tipping point
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. a balance
a device which is used to weigh things
b. to topple over
to collapse to the floor; to fall over
c. sociology
the study of human society
d. to cause a fuss
to generate a controversy; to make people angry or agitated
e.
immigrants
people who come to live in a new country
f. a cliché
an expression or phrase that has been used so often before that it
now seems tired and unoriginal
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
iii. tipping point
b.
ii. a time when an important new stage is reached in a process
(‘The point of no return. The point at which something tips over into a new state, or
something becomes dramatically more common.’)
Exercise 4
a.
False – ‘The idea started in physics where a small amount of weight added to an
object in a balance causes it to topple over’
b.
True – ‘add a little bit and it’s alright, add a bit more and it’s alright, add a bit more
and it’s alright, and then suddenly, whomph! – over it goes.’
c.
True – ‘Malcolm Gladwell wrote a bestseller in 2000 called
The Tipping Point: How
Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
.’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
In the news
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