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Cashback
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Cashback
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:
Supermarkets, shopping and money
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language – ‘Cashback’ and other phrases/words connected to money
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
Cashback
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Gavin Dudeney, an expert
on the English language, and that the talk is about the way English is changing. This
particular talk is about the word ‘cashback’.
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/phrases connected to money. Use
Exercise 8a
as a discussion activity; you shouldn’t give full answers after this activity, as
Exercises 8b
and
8c
deal with the definitions of the words.
The final discussion uses some of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Cashback
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
It used to be that shopping was a fairly simple activity – you went to the supermarket,
picked up what you needed, paid for it and left. But in recent years it’s become a lot more
complicated. Supermarkets in the UK now sell much more than food: you can get your
insurance there, pay bills and a variety of other services. In many ways they’ve become a
one-stop shop for lots of life’s daily chores.
You can also get ‘rewards’ – join up and get a ‘loyalty card’ and every time you shop
you’ll get points and discounts. And just when you thought supermarkets couldn’t offer
anything else, they turned into mini-banks, offering you cash when you shop. Go into any
UK supermarket, pay for your shopping, and you’re more than likely to be asked if you
want ‘any cashback with that?’
Listening Section 2
This is only offered if you pay by debit card. Effectively, if you buy £30 worth of
shopping, you can pay £50 with your debit card and the supermarket will give you your
shopping plus, £20 in cash from the till.
Originally introduced by the supermarket giant Tesco, it eases busy shoppers’ lives by
cutting out an extra visit to the bank. Of course, they didn’t just introduce this for the
customer’s benefit – shops also benefit by having less cash in-house, and by paying less in
fees for taking this cash to their local bank.
In recent years the phrase ‘cashback!’ has also been observed as an exclamation of joy or
satisfaction, as in ‘It’s three drinks for the price of two in the pub tonight. Cashback!’
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Cashback
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. complicated
not simple
b. insurance
a financial protection scheme; you pay a little money to a
company every year, then, if you have a serious financial
problem, the company will pay for everything.
c. daily chores
everyday jobs and tasks e.g. the washing up, paying bills
d. discount
a reduction in the normal price of something
e.
debit card
a card, given to you by a bank, which lets you pay for things
without using cash
f. the till
the place where you pay for something in a shop; the cash
register
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
Supermarkets
b.
iii.
They are more than just food shops these days, you can get many things there
Exercise 4
a.
True – ‘you can get your insurance there, pay bills.’
b.
True – ‘join up and get a ‘loyalty card’ and every time you shop you’ll get points and
discounts.’
c.
False – They already offer some banking services: ‘just when you thought
supermarkets couldn’t offer anything else, they turned into mini-banks,
offering you cash when you shop’
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