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Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers
w00t!
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
w00t
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:
Playing games
Aims:
Listening skills – A short talk
Language – ‘w00t’ and other exclamatory phrases
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
w00t
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 ‘w00t’.
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 exclamatory phrases.
The final discussion uses some of the language from the lesson.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
w00t
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
Now here’s a curious word. You probably didn’t notice but the middle two characters are
numbers, not letters, and this gives us a clue as to where the word came from originally –
but more of that in a while. So, how does this word sound to you? Let me say it again...
‘w00t!’ Does it sound happy? It should do. When the Merriam-Webster dictionary chose it
as their word of the year for 2007, they described it as ‘expressing joy... similar to the
word “yay!”’ The kind of thing you say when you win something, or when something
good happens to you: W00t! I passed all my exams!
Listening Section 2
So why are there two zeros in the middle of this expression? Well, w00t! is widely
believed to have originated in the online gaming community where teams compete to
overcome other teams. Beating another team means that you ‘own’ them, and from there
we get the bacronym (a phrase constructed after the fact) of ‘we own the other team’.
However, gamers speak another language to the rest of us – they speak l337 (‘leet’, from
‘elite’) where words are written using different characters and numbers – just to confuse
middle-aged people like me. So, ‘we own the other team’ becomes ‘woot’ and then is
transposed in l337 to ‘w00t!’. Simple, really.
Keen scholars will find the word ‘woot’ used in Chaucer’s
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
,
meaning ‘to know’, and you’ll also find it in pop songs from the early nineties and various
different online forums, but it is the gaming usage which has captured the popular
imagination. As Merriam-Webster’s president John Morse points out, ‘it blends whimsy
and technology’.
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
w00t
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. curious
strange, unusual and puzzling
b. joy
great happiness
c. online gaming
playing computer games over the Internet, often in teams
d. to overcome a team
to defeat your opponents in a competition or game
e.
acronym
a word made from the initial letters of the words in a phrase
e.g. UN = United Nations
f. Chaucer
a great English writer from the 1300s
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a.
iii.
w00t (the middle two characters are the number zero)
b.
It has a positive use. We use it when we are happy because we have won something.
Exercise 4
a.
True – ‘here’s a curious word.’
b.
False – ‘When the Merriam-Webster dictionary chose it as their word of the year
for 2007’
c.
False – ‘they described it as ‘expressing joy... similar to the word “yay!”’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a.
iii.
We Own the Other Team
b.
word when their team defeats another team in the game.
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People who play computer games online and in teams use this phrase. They use the
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