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Wicked
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wicked
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:
Adults and children
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Wicked’ and other colloquial adjectives
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
Wicked
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 ‘wicked’.
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 questions ‘a‘ and ‘b’.
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 colloquial adjectives. Don’t give the answers to
Exercise 8a
until the students have completed
Exercise 8b.
The final discussion activity is connected to the language work – a selection of questions
that use the colloquial adjectives from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wicked
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Wicked! Note the intonation. It means ‘wonderful’, ‘great’, ‘cool’, ‘splendid’. It came
into English from United States’ black slang in the 1980s or maybe earlier. Certainly it
arrived in Britain in the late 1980s. It was part of a trend which goes back decades to
use bad words to mean good concepts, or the other way round. I mean you might
remember saying, ‘that’s great!’ meaning ‘it isn’t great’. And always there’s been this
use of the word ‘naughty’ to mean ‘nice’. So it’s part of a general trend.
It’s mainly used as an adjective in front of a noun, you know, ‘we had a wicked time!’
Or, of course, you can use it on its own, just saying, you know, ‘wicked!’ as a reaction
– that’s how youngsters use it.
Listening Section 2
And youngsters, of course, knowing that grown ups are now using it as well have
decided to use other bad words in the same sort of way – I’ve heard from young people
in the last couple of years words like ‘evil’ meaning ‘good’, you see, or ‘brutal’
meaning ‘good’.
Wicked is still around. It’s meant, of course, that the traditional sense of wicked is now
being squeezed out, much as ‘gay’ made it difficult to use the traditional sense of
‘merry’ or ‘cheerful’ when it started to be used in reference to homosexuals. So with
wicked, tone of voice is the only way to make the distinction between the old meaning
and the new meaning, and even that’s ambiguous sometimes, so you have to be careful,
and pay very careful attention to the context.
And notice that the word is extending its use. The other day, for the first time, I heard
somebody say, ‘wicked cool’ meaning ‘very cool’.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wicked
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a.
i
ntonation
tone of voice; the way someone says something to give extra feeling
b.
a trend
a change over time, perhaps an increase or decrease
c.
youngsters
teenagers and children
d.
grown ups
adults
e.
ambiguous
the meaning is not clear
f.
the context
the situation in which something occurs
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
good / excellent – ‘great, cool, splendid.’
b.
bad – evil / morally wrong / dangerous
Exercise 4
a.
True – ‘It came into English from United States’ black slang
’
b
. False – ‘It was part of a trend which goes back decades
’
c.
False – ‘It’s mainly used as an adjective in front of a noun…Or, of course, you can use
it on its own’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
Evil and brutal
b.
i. intonation
iv. the situation the word is being used in
Exercise 6
a.
True – ‘youngsters, of course, knowing that grown ups are now using it as well have
decided to use other bad words in the same sort of way.’
b.
False – ‘It’s meant, of course, that the traditional sense of wicked is now being
squeezed out.’
c.
True – ‘notice that the word is extending its use.’
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