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Lesson 14
Showbiz
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Lesson 14: Showbiz
CONTENTS
1.
Level, topic, language, aims, materials
2.
Lesson stages
3.
Answers
4.
Tapescripts
5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3
Level:
Intermediate and above
Topic:
Fame and show business
Language:
Abbreviations: shortened forms - showbiz
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Materials:
Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary
Tapescript – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at bbclearningenglish.com
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Lesson 14: Showbiz
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor David Crystal
about the way the English language changes. This particular talk is about a type of
abbreviation known as clipping. Clippings are shortened versions of words.
B
Hand out
Student Worksheet 1
. Students do
Speaking Exercise 1
in small groups or
pairs.
C
Students do the
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 Exercise 3
and then listen to Section 1 of the talk.
They answer the questions.
Students listen again and answer
Listening Exercise 4.
E
Hand out
Student Worksheet 2
Students answer
Listening Exercise 5
Students listen to section 2 of the talk and check their answers for
Listening exercise 5.
F
Students read
Listening Exercise 6 and Listening Exercise 7
. They listen again to
Listening Section 2
to answer the questions.
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 tapescript and play the
complete talk as they read.
The language work focuses on other shortened forms.
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Lesson 14: Showbiz
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Showbiz. This is probably one of the most popular abbreviations of a word that took place
in the 20th century in the United States. It's an abbreviation - showbiz - of show business.
And, to begin with, it was written as two separate words: show space/biz; still is, to some
extent, but increasingly these days, you'll see it written as a single word, showbiz, and
pronounced like that. It’s actually been around since the 1940s, very wide use indeed as a
noun.
Listening section 2
“That’s show biz!” they used to say in all kinds of circumstances, where something was
happening that was unexpected, or something was going off the rails, or somebody lost
their job, or some special circumstance came up: “that’s show biz!” And it was used as an
adjective too. “We’re going to have a show biz treatment tonight” or “…a show biz
tribute”…or something of that kind. It hasn’t actually developed very many other uses as
yet (these shortened forms often don’t, you know), but it’s actually something that I think
is going to come in the near future. I've heard for instance an adjective form “going show-
bizzy” – that’s b-I-z-z-y, not b-u-s-y – meaning ‘typical of show biz’, in the last 5-10
years.
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Lesson 14: Showbiz
ANSWER KEY
SPEAKING
1.b
Here are some ideas: (NB: the films, directors and actors are not connected)
Era
Films
Directors
Actors
1920s, 30s, 40s Modern Times Charlie Chaplin Carole Lombard
Casablanca Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart
The Wizard of Oz Billy Wilder Mae West
The 1950s Ben Hur Alfred Hitchcock Doris Day
From here to Eternity Douglas Sirk Marilyn Monroe
On the Waterfront John Ford Rock Hudson
James Dean
The 1960s The James Bond films George Cukor Sean Connery
West Side Story Robert Wise Steve McQueen
The 1970s Jaws George Lucas Dustin Hoffman
Star Wars Martin Scorcese Dennis Hopper
The Godfather Woody Allen Mia Farrow
The 1980s, 90s E.T. Steven Spielberg Tom Cruise
Titanic James Cameron A. Schwarzenegger
Terminator Oliver Stone Leonardo di Caprio
Since 2000 A Beautiful Mind Ron Howard Nicole Kidman
Gangs of New York Sofia Coppola Russell Crowe
Denzel Washington
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