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Phat
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Phat
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:
Being cool
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Phat’ and other homonyms
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
Phat
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 word ‘phat’, although it is best not to tell students the word
before they do the first listening.
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 the questions ‘a, b and c‘.
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 homophones.
The final discussion activity uses some of the language from the language work (Exercise
8).
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Phat
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Now, this is a difficult one for speech, ‘phat’, not ‘fat’. You can usually tell the difference
because ‘fat’ is for animates: people and animals. ‘Phat’ is used with things or general
states of affairs, people say, ‘You know, that’s a phat beat!’ or ‘It’s very phat down by the
river!’
Well, it sounds like a modern usage, doesn’t it? It means, excellent, great, cool … you
know, it’s phat down by the river, it’s lovely to be down by the river.
Listening Section 2
As a word, it’s been around since the early 1990s. It’s from hip-hop slang. It originally
meant, sexiness, real sexiness in a woman. Although, it had all sorts of etymologies, I
wouldn’t believe them all – I mean, one was, ‘pretty, hot and tempting’, phat, and there are
some ruder etymologies as well, let me tell you.
You’ll still encounter it, but the homophony, the fact that the two words sound the same –
phat and fat – has made it ambiguous. I don’t think it ever really caught on. I do hear the
word around a lot in 2006, but I think it’s on the way out. It’s not phat, to say phat,
anymore!
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Phat
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a.
animates
things that move and have life
b.
the beat
the rhythm of a piece of music
c.
cool
fashionable and trendy
d.
hip-hop
a style of popular music, closely connected to Afro-American culture
e.
etymologies
the (possible) histories of a word
f.
to encounter
to meet, see or find something
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
‘phat’ and ‘fat’
b.
‘phat’
c.
‘excellent, great, cool’
Exercise 4
a.
True – ‘‘fat’ is for animates: people and animals’
b
. False – ‘‘Phat’ is used with things or general states of affairs,’
c.
True – ‘it’s phat down by the river, it’s lovely to be down by the river.’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
iii. how attractive someone is
Exercise 6
a.
True – ‘it had all sorts of etymologies, I wouldn’t believe them all.’
b.
False – ‘I don’t think it ever really caught on.’
c.
False – ‘It’s not phat, to say phat, anymore!’
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