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Language for ... www.macmillandictionary.com royalty Notes Teacher’s 2 Tell students that in today’s class, they will study Age: Adult / Young adult language for royalty. Hand out the student Level: Upper-intermediate–Advanced worksheets, face-down. Students work in pairs. Length: 90 minutes (approx.) + Their task is to complete a wordsearch about optional extension activities words related to royalty. The fastest pair wins. Language Focus: key expressions Students turn the worksheets to Task 1a and for talking about royalty begin the race. Monitor the class as they do this. Skills: reading, listening For weaker groups, you could reveal that words Materials: One copy of the worksheet per student; → only appear in two directions (→ and ). Once if possible, a computer/projector with an internet a group has found all 12 words, check that they connection in classroom; one copy of the extension have done so correctly before declaring them the activities worksheet per student (optional) winners! Finally, elicit all 12 words, focusing on Aims: to allow students to effectively understand pronunciation and precise meaning of potentially and use common expressions for talking about confusing ones: royalty, to prepare students to understand a Christmas video-message by Queen Elizabeth II a duke = a man with a very high social position, just below that of a prince a count = a nobleman in some European What are red words? countries, but not in the UK, e.g. Count Dracula Ninety per cent of the time, speakers of English use just 7,500 words in speech and writing. These words Point out that, for some of the words, there also appear in the Macmillan Dictionary in red and are exist feminine versions (e.g. prince → princess). graded with stars. One-star words are frequent, Ask students to identify which other words have two-star words are more frequent and three-star feminine versions (answer = duchess, countess). words are the most frequent. ‘Language for’ lessons are based on red words and encourage students to Male and female royal titles improve their English through communicative tasks Emperor Empress using collocation and commonly used phrases. https://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/ King Queen red-words.html Prince Princess 1 Begin the lesson by showing the photo of Duke Duchess the British Royal family (other photos if you Marquis/Marques Marchioness prefer can be found on their Instagram account https//www.instagram.com/theroyalfamily/?hl=en . Count Countess Alternatively, you could show a photo of more Earl Lady locally recognizable royals. Ask students to discuss the royal positions and family connections of the Baron Baroness various members of the family (e.g. ‘that man is Lord Lady the Queen’s grandson’). Language for … royalty 1 © Springer Nature Ltd 2019. Macmillan Education is part of the Springer Nature Group. DOWNLOAD AND PHOTOCOPIABLE Language for ... www.macmillandictionary.com royalty Notes Teacher’s 3 Refer students to Task 1b and ask them to discuss for Task 4a and allow students a minute or two to the questions in pairs. Allow them a few minutes discuss the two questions. Try to elicit some of to talk, monitoring and taking notes as they do so. the reasons behind a royal Christmas speech (e.g. Once the time is up, identify a student who seems to reflect on the year, to make people hopeful to know a lot about the topic and ask him/her to about the year ahead, to make the nation feel like share some information about a particular royal. a ‘big family’, etc.) Finally, provide feedback to the whole class, 8 Read the instructions for Task 4b and allow focusing on useful ‘royal’ vocabulary which may students a minute or so to individually complete have come up. the missing letters. When the time is up, students 4 Refer students to Task 2a Read the instructions should compare their suggestions. Then elicit the aloud. Set a time limit of a few minutes for correct answers. students to individually read through both texts 9 Read aloud the instruction and question for Task and complete the table at the end. Monitor the 4c. Then play the video. Note that only a short class as they do so, helping weaker students section of the video is relevant to this lesson. By to understand more challenging vocabulary. using the given link (http://www.youtube.com/ Once the time is up, ask students to compare watch?v=mv8kG31cSr4&t=3m2s), the video will their answers in pairs. Finally, elicit the correct automatically start at the correct time (3.02), but answers, asking students to identify the part(s) of you will need to manually stop the video at the the texts that correspond to the answers. end of the section (4.22). Once the section ends, 5 Now refer students to Task 2b. Again, allow them allow students to discuss the question in pairs. a few minutes to work individually, encouraging Then elicit the correct answer. them to reread the two texts for context. After a 10 Allow students a moment to read the questions few minutes, they should again compare answers in Task 4d. Play the video again, give students in pairs. Then elicit the correct answers. a moment to compare their answers to the 6 Read aloud the instructions for Task 3 as a questions, then elicit the correct answers. class, complete the first missing word together 11 Refer students to Task 4e and ask them to discuss (answer = monarchy). Once students have the questions in pairs. Allow them a few minutes suggested this word, ask them to make sure to talk, monitoring and taking notes as they do so. that they don’t need to modify it: does the word Once the time is up, provide feedback, focusing need to be plural? (No); is there more than one on ‘royal’ vocabulary from this lesson which possible answer here? (No). Students work in students may have used. pairs to complete the rest of the missing words. Monitor the class and provide clues to weaker 12 Refer students to Task 5. Ask them to sit in new students. Finally, elicit the correct answers. pairs for this task. Give students a few minutes to discuss the questions, encouraging them 7 Tell students that in this part of the lesson, they to incorporate new language from this lesson. are going to watch a short video of the British For the question related to statistics, make sure Queen Elizabeth II. Read aloud the instructions students have had a chance to discuss it before Language for … royalty 2 © Springer Nature Ltd 2019. Macmillan Education is part of the Springer Nature Group. DOWNLOAD AND PHOTOCOPIABLE Language for ... www.macmillandictionary.com royalty Notes Teacher’s you reveal the answers. Once you have elicited the 2. Text correct statistics (see Answer Key), give students a. Susan Bret another moment to discuss the final question. The disadvantages of being royal ✔ Finally, provide feedback on this entire task. Public opinion ✔ Extension Activities Money ✔ This lesson also includes three possible How to react if you meet a King ✔ or Queen extension activities: b. a. Complete the rules – This activity could be 1. a republic given for homework, or completed in pairs in 2. a monarchy the classroom. 3. to reign b. Write a paragraph – This could be completed 4. an heir individually in class, with students then explaining 5. an estate their paragraph to classmates and subsequently 6. a residence submitting it to the teacher. Alternatively, it could 7. to be next in line for something be set as a homework task. 8. to bow c. True or False quiz – This could be used as a fun 9. to curtsy way to finish the lesson, or to revise vocabulary 10. nobility in a later lesson. Students should work in small 11. a monarch groups to complete it. Encourage them to use new 12. Your Majesty language from the lesson as they discuss each 13. a commoner sentence in the quiz. 14. a coronation 3. 1. monarchy KEY: 2. estate/residence 1. 3. commoners h z r r c o u n t m 4. throne 5. line v m x u f c r o w n 6. coronation k c w p r i n c e i 7. bow 8. reigned i i c a s t l e a e 4. n t l b g d x l l y a. Students’ own answers b. occupied; Prince; wisdom; paradox; evil; faith g h s g x y q y t d c. Family events: She mentions two weddings, the p r i n c e s s h u arrival of two babies, another baby expected soon, the 70th birthday of the Prince of Wales s o k q u e e n y k k n p a l a c e z e o e k i n g d o m s Language for … royalty 3 © Springer Nature Ltd 2019. Macmillan Education is part of the Springer Nature Group. DOWNLOAD AND PHOTOCOPIABLE Language for ... www.macmillandictionary.com royalty Notes Teacher’s d. 1. The Queen says that she herself is very b. 1. True occupied (as the grandmother and 2. False – it will be Prince Charles great-grandmother to so many new babies). 3. True 2. She shares the wisdom that life contains many 4. False – Princess Anne and Prince Edward’s paradoxes, such as the way that humans children do not have these titles can do great good, but also great evil. 5. True 3. She says that faith, family and friendship 6. True have always been a source of comfort to her.