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Diamond geezer
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Diamond geezer
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:
Friends and friendship
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language –
‘
Diamond geezer’ and other words for types of people
Materials:
Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,
Listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary, language and role-play
Audio script – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Diamond geezer
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 phrase ‘Diamond geezer’.
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 question ‘a’.
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 idiomatic phrases to describe people.
The final discussion continues to explore the theme of friendship, with a little extra
practice of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Diamond geezer
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Diamond geezer. London slang. Cockney accent usually, I suppose - ‘diamond geezer!’
‘Geezer!’ It’s dialect pronunciation in London for a ‘guiser’ - that’s G-U-I-S-E-R - in other
words, somebody who puts on a guise, a kind of mummer, if you like, a kind of travelling
player. So that’s where the word comes from.
But the modern usage in London and further afield – a geezer is, well, it means ‘he’s one
of us’. An older person tends to be a geezer. You wouldn’t usually call a child or a young
man a geezer. It tends to be an older person. A geezer is your mate. It’s somebody reliable,
solid, a trustworthy person.
Listening Section 2
And ‘diamond’ in front of it is, well, diamonds of course are wonderful things, they’re
special things, they’re valuable things, so a diamond something, is a very special
something. So, a diamond geezer is a reliable person who’s really a very special person. So
you add all that up, and you get an equivalent in ‘he’s a good sort’, ‘he’s an OK chap’,
‘he’s a great bloke’, ‘he’s a good feller’, ‘he’s a hero’ – these are the glosses for diamond
geezer.
But because it starred in a 2005 film staring David Jason,
Diamond Geezer
, there is a
touch of the eccentric and the maverick about it. Here, we’re talking about a thief who’s
charming and cheeky and everybody loves him really, he’s got a heart of gold, he’s a good
sort, he’s not really a bad guy – he’s a diamond geezer.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Diamond geezer
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a.
Cockney
someone from the East of London, usually working-class
b.
a guise
the appearance or look of something
c.
a travelling player
a performer, or actor, who performs around the country
d.
a mate
a friend
e.
a maverick
someone who does things in their own individual way that is
different to the normal way of doing things
f.
cheeky
mischievous or slightly naughty, perhaps lacking in respect for
others
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
You like him/her – ‘A geezer is your mate. It’s somebody reliable, solid, a trustworthy
person.’
Exercise 4
a.
True – ‘somebody who puts on a guise, a kind of mummer, if you like, a kind of
travelling player.’
b.
False – ‘But the modern usage in London and further afield.’
c.
True – ‘You wouldn’t usually call a child or a young man a geezer. It tends to be an
older person.’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
It makes the person even more special, not just reliable.
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