Happy-clappy Professor David Crystal This is one of those reduplicated words, where the two words are almost the same, but they just change one little part: change the vowel, or change the consonants in this particular case - usually the consonant at...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 15 Toy boy CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: Relation...
Toy boy Professor David Crystal There's a class of very unusual words in English, they're called reduplications or reduplicated forms: bow wow, says the dog. Well, you can hear the reduplication, the two words are almost the same, its just the first...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 14 Showbiz CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: Fame and...
Showbiz Professor David Crystal This is probably one of the most popular abbreviations of a word that took place in the 20th century in the United States. It's an abbreviation - showbiz - of show business. And, to begin with, it was written as two se...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 13 Prenup CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: marriages...
Prenup Professor David Crystal We often abbreviate words by dropping the endings. There's a technical term for it in linguistics - they're called clippings. I suppose the word 'ad' is the most familiar, from advertisements. 'Pram' is another, from pe...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 12 Spam CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: Technology...
Spam Professor David Crystal Technology always has an influence on language. When printing came in, it brought new words into the language. When broadcasting first started new words came into the language. And now the internet has come along so its n...
Teachers pack Lesson plan and student worksheets with answers Lesson 11 Phwoar! CONTENTS 1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials 2. Lesson stages 3. Answers 4. Tapescripts 5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3 Level: Intermediate and above Topic: Showing...
