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Overview: Suggestions for using the rap What’s Your English? by Baba Brinkman and Professor Elemental
Total time for worksheet activities: 45 minutes + discussion
Suggested level: Upper intermediate to advanced
1.For each student, make a copy of the Worksheet
and the rap Transcript and Glossary.
2. Ask the students if they know the meaning of the
word rap. Ask them how they feel about rap music
in general and if they listen to it. Ask them if they
know any rap artists?
Rap is a way of talking using rhythm and rhyme,
usually over a strong musical beat.
This rap was written and performed by two
rap artists: Baba Brinkman and Professor
Elemental. You can find out more about them
on these websites:
www.bababrinkman.com
www.professorelemental.com
5. Ask students to complete the vocabulary
questions in exercise 2. Play the video clip so
students can check their answers. You may have
to play this part of the video more than once.
6. Put students into pairs and ask them to discuss
the questions in exercise 3. Provide a couple of
examples before students begin the task.
7. Play the complete video clip of Baba Brinkman
and Professor Elemental’s rap battle.
3. Tell students they are going to listen to a rap and
watch a video. Give out copies of the Worksheet.
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1 Find the information
The British man (Professor Elemental) is wearing
a hat and holding a pipe. The North American
man (Baba Brinkman) is wearing a checked shirt.
2 Vocabulary
1 British English / North American English
spanner / wrench
football / soccer
autumn / fall
rubbish / garbage
lift / elevator
petrol / gas
crisp / potato chip
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how’s it hanging / NAE
not cricket / BE
not whistling dixie / NAE
blimey o’reilly / BE
having a barney / BE
hokey / NAE
fo shizzle / NAE
this has all gone pear-shaped / BE
porky pies / BE
chuffed to bits / BE
NAE = North American English
BE = British English
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1 Find the information
Watch the rap battle video What’s Your English? Who do you think is British and who is Canadian?
Why are they arguing?
2 Vocabulary
1 Complete the words in the table below to show the differences between British English and
North American English.
British English
North American English
s______
football
a_____
rubbish
l___
petrol
c____
wrench
s_____
fall
g______
elevator
g__
potato chip
2 Watch the video clip again and check your answers.
3 Complete the expressions using the words from the box. Then match the phrases in the left-hand
column with their meaning in the right-hand column.
1. How’s it
?
2. not
3. not
dixie
4.
o’reilly
5. having a
6.
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8. This has all gone
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pies
shizzle
whistling
a. serious about something
b. for sure / absolutely
c. surprised / shocked
d. it’s gone horribly wrong
e. lies
f. How are you?
g. very pleased
h. wrong or unfair
i. false or corny
j. fighting
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Decide whether the expressions in the left-hand column are British or North American English. Write BE or NAE next to each phrase.
3 Discussion
Discuss these questions in pairs.
a When was the last time …
someone told you porky pies?
you had a barney?
something went pear-shaped?
you were chuffed to bits?
b Do you think all English-speaking countries should aim to use the Queen’s English? Why / Why not?
c Is your teacher’s nationality important to you? Why / Why not?
d Do you agree that English is ‘the world’s preferred language’? Do you think this will be the case in the future?
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Suggestions
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Overview:
Suggestions
for using the third part of the poem The 21st Century Flux by Dizraeli
TRANSCRIPT
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TRANSCRIPT
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’cause
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of gas
petrol station
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level: You’ve
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to advanced
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of gas to go with that hot air lame flow
Total time for
worksheet
activities:
30 minutes
+ discussion
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Overview:
Suggestions
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TRANSCRIPT
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30 minutes + discussion
colony Total time for worksheet activities:
noun
a country that is controlled by another country
intrusive
adjective
present and noticeable in a way that is annoying
1.
Set upSuggested
a computerlevel:
with Internet
access.
6. Let
students compare their ideas and then give
Upper intermediate
descendant
noun to advanced
a relative of a person who lived in the past
out
of the how
Transcript
syntax
noun
thecopies
rules about
wordsand
are Glossary
arranged of
and
2. Make1.a copy
of
the
poem
Transcript
and
part
three
of
Dizraeli’s
poem
The
21st
Century
connected
to maketheir
phrases
and
sentences
Set up a computer with Internet access.
6. Let
students compare
ideas and
then
give
Glossary and Worksheet for eachadjective
student.
Flux.
Play this
of for
theno
video
(from of
2:12 until
out
copies
of the
Transcript
and
Glossary
senseless
happening
orpart
done
purpose
2.
Make
a
copy
of
the
poem
Transcript
and
part
three
of
Dizraeli’s
poem
The
21st
Century
the
end)
and
let
students
follow
it.
received pronunciation (RP)
noun
a way of speaking British English that is considered
and Worksheet
for each
student.
Flux.
part of the
video (from 2:12
untilUK
3. Read outGlossary
the following
verse and
ask your
to bePlay
thethis
standard
pronunciation
in the
the
end) and let
students
follow it.verb stem from
once
and forif all
completely
and
finally
students
they remember wherephrase
it is from:
7. Tell
students
that
the missing
3.
Read
out
the
following
verse
and
ask
your
conservatism
noun
a tendency
change;
a political
step
5 (above)toisdislike
mentioned
in this
part of belief
the that it
students if they remember where it is from:
7. Tell
students
that
the missing
verb stem
from
is
better
for
society
to
change
only
gradually
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poem
askisthem
if they can
it. the
step
5 and
(above)
mentioned
this find
part they
of
trade
phrase
if people
trade
blows orininsults,
hit or insult
ad blows/insults
infinitum,
pow-wow,
kudos,
déjà
vu
(The
answer
is
borrow.)
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poem and ask them if they can find it.
each other
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beef, potato,
hobo,
dream
adbillabong,
infinitum, pow-wow,
kudos,
déjà vu
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barmy
adjective (British)
crazy or silly
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ton, the
billabong,
beef, potato, hobo, dream 8. Use an image search to find pictures to
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wigwam
Wha gwan with the wigwam
8. illustrate
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search to find
pictures
to
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the following
words:
elastic,
mr Chimpanzee?
illustrate theand
following
words:
patchwork
tapestry.
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each case ask
patchwork and tapestry. In each case ask
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students to describe what they see and ask
Note that you could remind students by playing
students to describe what they see and ask
this partthis
of the
(0:33–0:46).
them
tellyou
youthe
thenames
names
of the
items
in their
part video
of the video
(0:33–0:46).
them to
to tell
of the
items
in their
own
language(s).
own language(s).
4. Ask students
if theyifcan
what
thethe
4. Ask students
theyremember
can remember
what
words/items
in common.
answer
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students into
monolingual
groups
(if (if
words/items
have inhave
common.
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answer
9.9. Put
intosmall
small
monolingual
groups
is
that
most
of
them
have
been
borrowed
possible).
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out
copies
of
the
Worksheet.
is that most of them have been borrowed
possible). Give out copies of the Worksheet.
by
English
from
other
languages
but
don’t
Ask students
students totomatch
thethe
words
withwith
the the
by English from other languages but don’t
Ask
match
words
mention that at this stage.)
languages in exercise 1 and then discuss the
mention that at this stage.)
languages
in exercise 1 and then discuss the
questions in exercise 2.
questions in exercise 2.
5. Write the following definition on the board and
Answers to exercise 1
5. Write the
following
definition
on
the
board
and
ask students to suggest what the missing verb
Answers
1
1 i
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7 a
ask students
to suggest what the missing verb
stem is:
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of taking one word from a foreign
examples of _____________ed English words
languageinclude
and introducing
it into
another.
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juggernaut from
Hindi,
beef from
examples
of _____________ed
English words
French
and potato from Spanish.