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Keep your English
up to date 3
Teacher’s pack
Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers
Google
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BBC Learning English – Keep your English up to date
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:
Using the Internet and search engines
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Google’ and words that are both nouns and verbs
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
bbclearningenglish.com
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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 search engine ‘Google’.
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 can be both nouns and verbs.
The final discussion activity is connected to the language work, using the vocabulary from
the lesson.
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AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
To google – as a verb. Of course, everybody’s heard of the search engine – popular
development of the 1990s. In fact, in 1999, Google was designated the most useful word
by the American Dialect Society, as a verb! ‘I’m going to google.’ ‘We are googling.’
And, of course, there’s all sorts of associated words that have come since – you know, ‘we
are googlers, if we google!’ And people who google a lot are ‘google-minded’, and I
suppose there are lots of other coinages too.
The word itself comes from a mathematical term, ‘googol’, a term meaning 10 to the 100
th
power, an impossibly large concept, indeed. And, of course, the google search engine has
also become impossibly large! When you go searching for a word on Google, you might
get a million hits, or 10 million hits, or a hundred million hits.
Listening Section 2
Of course, the penalty of success is when you have a word enter the language and it was
originally a word that you thought you owned. In fact, the firm Google is very concerned
over this use as a verb, because it is their trade mark – they like to keep the capital letter in
the definition, for example – if you use it, they say, do use it with a capital ‘G’. But
they’ve got a problem – no firm, no matter how big, can control language change!
They’re not the first firm to be worried about this sort of thing. Xerox, once upon a time,
was very worried about the way their name had become part of the language as a whole,
you know, ‘I’m going to xerox something’, meaning – I’m going to photocopy something.
And Hoover was another one, you know, it now means any sort of vacuum cleaner. Of
course, Hoover is a particular brand of vacuum cleaner. So Google are a bit worried about
this use of their name as a verb, but they won’t be able to stop it. As I say, no firm, no
matter how big, can control language change.
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ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a.
coinage
a form of a word
b.
a hit
when
a search engine finds a search word on a web page
c.
penalty
punishment
d.
a trademark
a symbol or name that represents a company or product
e.
a capital letter
a big letter, like ‘G’, not ‘g’
f.
a vacuum cleaner
a machine used to clean a carpet or floor
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
Google is now used in general English as a verb, amongst other types of word.
Exercise 4
a.
False – ‘In 1999, Google was designated the most useful word by the American Dialect
Society, as a verb.’
a.
True – ‘The word itself comes from a mathematical term, ‘googol’.’
c.
True – ‘the Google search engine has also become impossibly large!’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
ii. They are worried about the use of the word in general English.
Exercise 6
a.
False – ‘If you use it, they say, do use it with a capital ‘G’.’
b.
False – ‘It now means any sort of vacuum cleaner’. [In fact, it can be used as a verb,
but Professor Crystal does not mention this.]
c.
True – ‘No firm, no matter how big, can control language change.’
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