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D’oh!
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
D’oh!
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:
Making mistakes
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language – ‘D’oh!’ and other exclamatory words/expressions
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
D’oh!
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Gavin Dudeney, an expert
on the English language, and that the talk is about the way English is changing. This
particular talk is about the word, or expression,‘d’oh!’.
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 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 exclamations, such as ‘eurgh!’.
The final discussion uses some of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
D’oh!
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
D’oh! Let me just say that again... ready? D’oh! If you’re under 30, you’re probably
picturing a yellow cartoon character called Homer Simpson, right? If you don’t know who
Homer Simpson is, he’s the father of the family. Now imagine him saying ‘D’oh!’ and
picture this situation: Homer has probably injured himself, done something stupid, been
caught out doing something stupid or lost out on a good opportunity. D’oh! is an
expression that says ‘Damn! I’m stupid’, or ‘Oh, not again!’ - the kind of thing you might
say when you realise you’ve done something silly
.
Listening Section 2
D’oh! first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002, but it was first heard on a
1988 episode of the Tracey Ullman TV show featuring an early version of the Simpsons,
with Homer being knocked out by a punching bag. Since then it has become a regular
expression used to express frustration, or a sense of inevitable doom. D’oh!
You should be careful not to mix this up with ‘duh!’, which is valley girl speak (as heard
in southern California) for ‘everyone knows that’ or ‘obviously’. You may have seen
television characters rolling their eyes in exasperation and exclaiming ‘Duh!’ when they
think someone is being stupid.
So, you might say ‘D’oh!’ when you’ve been stupid, and ‘Duh!’ when you think someone
else is being stupid, but then duh!, everyone knows that, right?
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
D’oh!
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. a cartoon character
something from an animated film or TV show
b. to injure yourself
to hurt yourself
c. frustration
a sense of annoyance and growing impatience
d. episode
one TV programme from a series of connected programmes
e.
doom
a sense of hopelessness
f. exasperation
a sense of annoyance and growing impatience
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
ii.
D’oh!
b.
iii.
made a mistake
Exercise 4
a.
True – ‘you’re probably picturing a yellow cartoon character called Homer Simpson.’
b.
False – he gives four examples: ‘Homer has probably injured himself, done something
stupid, been caught out doing something stupid or lost out on a good opportunity.’
c.
True – ‘D’oh! is an expression that says ‘Damn! I’m stupid’, or ‘Oh, not again!’’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
i. duh!
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