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Wysiwyg
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wysiwyg
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:
Trust and disappointment
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Wysiwyg’ and other acronyms
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
Wysiwyg
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 acronym ‘wysiwyg’. Don’t tell the students this acronym yet.
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 acronyms from phrases, mostly connected to the
worlds of Internet chat and texting. The phrases are commonly used conversational items,
or chunks. If the students are struggling, put more words from the phrases on the board for
them to choose from.
The final discussion activity is connected to the topic – trust and being let down. Is life
generally wysiwyg?
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wysiwyg
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Wysiwyg. But it’s not spelt as it sounds. Wysiwyg. It’s an acronym meaning ‘what you see
is what you get’. It came in in the early 1980s in computing. It meant that what you see on
the screen is what you get in the output. For example, you type something on the screen
and when you print it out, it looks just like it’s on the screen. Wysiwyg. It was especially
found in desktop publishing.
So it’s a technical term then? Well, yes, but the phrase actually isn’t. And that’s the thing I
want to draw your attention to – the phrase was never technical.
Listening Section 2
It actually started in the United States, in a television show, in the early 1970s; it was
called ‘Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’. An actor there called Flip Wilson appeared as a
cross-dressing character called Geraldine and as he came on, he would say, ‘what you see,
it what you get!’ And I’ve heard it used since in all sorts of circumstances.
I’ve heard it used in restaurants referring to the food – ‘what you see is what you get’. And
in a tourist brochure referring to beautiful scenery – ‘come to this country and what you
see is what you get’ – that is, the tourist guide will give you everything you expect. And it
got its accolade, I think, this phrase, when Britney Spears had a song which included it –
‘because I can promise U baby what you see is what U get’ – the word ‘you’ was spelt
with just a capital letter ‘U’.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Wysiwyg
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a.
acronym
a word made from the first letters of a group of words
e.g. UN = United Nations
b.
screen
the monitor of a computer
c.
a cross-dressing character
a female actor who wears a male clothes on stage, or the
other way around
d.
circumstances
situations or contexts
e.
tourist brochure
a magazine that gives information to attract visitors
to a country
f.
an accolade
praise for or recognition of great achievement
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
WYSIWYG
b.
iii. What you see is what you get
Exercise 4
a.
False – ‘you type something on the screen and when you print it out, it looks just like
it’s on the screen.’
b
. True – ‘It was especially found in desktop publishing.’
c.
False – ‘the phrase was never technical.’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
iii. entertainment
b.
In a restaurant, in a tourist brochure, in a song
Exercise 6
a.
False –
‘
An actor there called Flip Wilson appeared as a cross-dressing character
called Geraldine [a female name] and as he came on, he would say,
’
b.
True– ‘‘come to this country and what you see is what you get’ – that is, the tourist
guide will give you everything you expect.
’
c.
True –
‘
the word ‘you’ was spelt with just a capital letter ‘U’.’
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