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Lesson 15
Toy boy
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Lesson 15: Toy boy
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:
Relationships
Language:
Reduplicated words: Toy boy
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language – guessing meanings of reduplicated words
Materials:
Worksheet 1
– Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary and language
Tapescript – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson 15: Toy boy
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor Crystal about the
way the English language changes. This particular talk is about words that use sound in an
interesting way.
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
If you do worksheet 3, Extra Work with your class, the students will look at the meanings
of the reduplicated words in Exercise 4, question i. If the students want to know the
meanings now, tell them they will look at them later.
However, if you do not plan to do the extra work, you may wish to give them the
definitions. (See the answers below)
E
Hand out
Student Worksheet 2
Students answer
Listening Exercise 5
Students listen to section 2 of the talk and check their answer for
Listening exercise 5
F
Students try to answer
Listening Exercises 6.
They listen again to
Listening 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 tapescript and play the
complete talk as they read.
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Lesson 15: Toy boy
For the language work, the three groups are simple repetition, vowel change and initial
sound change.
Make sure you drill (practise saying aloud) these words, as the sound of these words is
particularly there to be enjoyed.
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Lesson 15: Toy boy
TAPESCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
There's a class of very unusual words in English, they're called "reduplications" or
"reduplicated forms": "bow wow, says the dog". Well, you can hear the reduplication, the
two words are almost the same, it’s just the first part changes: "helter-skelter", "namby-
pamby". Words like this are reduplicated forms, and new ones are really rather unusual.
But "toy boy" has come along in the last 10 or 15 years.
Listening section 2
It's British slang, from the 1980s. It refers to an attractive young man being kept as a lover
by another person, by an older person, that’s the crucial thing: the older person is keeping
the younger man as that person’s "toy boy". It’s the rhyme that made it popular. "Toy girl"
seems rather boring by comparison.
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