WORDS IN THE NEWS Teacher’s pack
Words in the News
Anne Bancroft dies – 8 June 2005 (story link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2005/06/050608_bancroft.shtml)
Teacher’s pack table of contents
Lesson Plan: Core Materials...... 3
Lesson Plan: Supplementary Materials...... 9
Worksheet A: Specific information Questions...... 11
Worksheet B: Vocabulary Building...... 12
Worksheet C: Homophones...... 14
Answer Key...... 15
2 Words in the News – Anne Bancroft dies – Intermediate Reading Skills Core materials Lesson Plan
Activity Approx Teacher Boardwork time in mins
Warm-up/ Generate interest about today’s topic by asking students to see stimulate how much they know about Oscar winners over the last 40 Year Film Best Actress students' years. Tell them to put the information on the board into the or Best Actor interest in correct rows. 1962 text Divide the class into 2 or 3 groups. One person from each 1979 p group comes to the board and completes one line. If they get 1982 R all that year's information correct, they get one point. The 1991 E winning team is the one with the most points. 2004
R Answers: Jamie Foxx E 5 Year Film Best Actress or Meryle Streep A Actor Anne Bancroft D 1962 The Miracle Worker Anne Bancroft Dustin Hoffman I 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer Dustin Hoffman Jodie Foster N 1982 Sophie's Choice Meryl Streep G 1991 The Silence of the Jodie Foster The Miracle Worker
Lambs The Silence of the Lambs T 2004 Ray Jamie Foxx Ray E Kramer Vs Kramer X Sophie's Choice T Pre-teach Elicit/present key vocabulary that students need either to
essential understand the key points of the text or to understand and/or
vocab answer any questions that you'll set them later in the lesson.
The vocabulary is from Word in the News (so you can elicit the
vocabulary by using the explanations provided) Further
3 Words in the News – Anne Bancroft dies – Intermediate Reading Skills Core materials Lesson Plan
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examples are also provided for some of the vocabulary, which you might find useful:
rapaciously seductive sexually very hungry, having a great appetite for something. For example, a lot of people think Marilyn Monroe was p rapaciously seductive when she sang "Happy Birthday" to JF R Kennedy. E to work miracles R to produce great events. E 10 For example, with hardly any money and not much time we still A managed to work miracles and make the school look really D good for the end of year dance. I N to avoid the trap of type-casting G manage not to play similar roles in other films. For example Marilyn Monroe didn't avoid the trap of type- T casting. She always played rather stupid but sexy characters. E X sultry T causing or showing great sexual attraction. For example, most people think that Beyoncé is very sultry.
4 Words in the News – Anne Bancroft dies – Intermediate Reading Skills Core materials Lesson Plan
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to cement to join together, to establish permanently (in a relationship). p For example, they cemented their relationship by getting R engaged. E to launch R to begin, to give somebody the first chance to perform E A persona D a character a person takes on, for example in a film or a play. I N beloved G dearly loved (usually used for people who have been together for a long time. Often used to describe someone after they are T dead). E For example, my dearly beloved wife died last year. X T impeccable instinct faultless ability to act in a certain way (without having to learn it). Some tennis players seem to be able to see a ball before it is even hit. They have an impeccable instinct about the game.
5 Words in the News – Anne Bancroft dies – Intermediate Reading Skills Core materials Lesson Plan
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compromise an agreement that is acceptable to both people in an argument rapaciously seductive (with each not getting 100% of what they asked for originally). For example, when she bought a house she wanted a garden to work miracles
and a big kitchen. In the end she couldn't afford both so she
P comprised and got one with a small balcony so she could get to avoid the trap of type-casting
R the kitchen she wanted.
E sultry (adj)
Elicit/present the vocabulary, model the vocab (say it clearly,
R highlighting the word stress) and get them to repeat the words to cement (v) E after you. Write the words on the board, eliciting spelling as A you write. to launch (v) D I persona (n) N Written record Elicit and show the word stress of each item and word class, if G necessary. beloved (adj) Give students some time to copy your boardwork into their T notebooks. impeccable instincts E 5 X to compromise (v) T
6 Words in the News – Anne Bancroft dies – Intermediate Reading Skills Core materials Lesson Plan
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Set gist Tell the students they are going to read a text about Anne Throughout her career, Anne question Bancroft who died recently. Give them a time limit (1 - 2 Bancroft has been an unusual 1 minutes) to read the text quickly to find the answer to the actress. True or false? question on the board. W Gist reading H (first reading 2 I of text) L E Check answer Check students' answers Throughout her career, Anne Elicit answer from students (and underline correct answer on Bancroft has been an unusual R the board. True: paragraph 2 says 'avoided type-casting', actress. True or false? 1 E paragraph 3 says 'her willingness to take on a challenge' and A paragraph 5 says ' one of America's most artistically D uncompromising actresses' I Set specific Use worksheet A/online quiz to help students understand the N information text in more detail. 1 G questions Give students a time limit (5 - 6 minutes) to read the text again in more detail now and to answer the questions. T Reading for E specific X information T 5 - 6 (second reading of the text)
7 Words in the News – Anne Bancroft dies – Intermediate Reading Skills Core materials Lesson Plan
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Check specific Elicit answers True or False. Direct attention to a particular information 2 paragraph if an answer is wrong, to try to elicit correct answer. answers (see worksheet A and answer key) P R Before the lesson, make enough copies of worksheet B so that O E there is 1 worksheet for every 4 – 5 students. Cut up the S A 5 vocabulary and explanations. T D In class, tell students to match the correct word with the right I definition. N Check 2 Elicit answers. If an answer is wrong, ask other students to try G answers to elicit correct answer. (see worksheet B and answer key) Total 45 Time mins Approx
8 Words in the News – Anne Bancroft dies – Intermediate Reading Skills Supplementary materials Lesson Plan
Activity Approx Teacher Boardwork time in mins Vocabulary: Use worksheet C to focus on homophones (words with the Homophones same pronunciation but with different spelling and meaning). 5 - 10 p Tell students to find the homophones in the text and to create O sentences using both words. S Check 3 If an answer is wrong, ask other students to try to elicit correct T answers answer (see worksheet C and answer key). Follow-up Show students some examples from the internet, newspapers R activity or magazines, of articles or obituaries of other famous people. E writing Elicit what information is common to all these articles A (childhood and family background, highlights and D achievements, information about family/children still alive). I Tell students they are going to write their own obituary. N Imagine it's 60 years from now. They are all famous actors, G 15 footballers, scientists etc. who suddenly die. When they have finished writing, the class will try to guess T which obituary belongs to which student. E Tell students they will work by themselves. Give them 5 X minutes to brainstorm ideas and plan their writing and 5 - 10 T minutes to write their articles. Circulate, while they are working, giving help with grammar and spelling, if necessary.
9 Words in the News – Anne Bancroft dies – Intermediate Reading Skills Supplementary materials Lesson Plan
P Feedback Collect the students' work. If possible, stick it up where Examples: O everyone can see it. S Ask the students to walk round the room looking at each She showed promise at an early T obituary and writing down in their notebooks which student age. P they think wrote each one. R The winner is the student who guesses the most obituaries He leave behind a wife and four E 5 - 10 correctly. children. O A Give praise for content (for work that had all the correct D elements in it for an obituary) I Give praise for correct examples you saw. N Give feedback on incorrect examples you saw. G Elicit corrections.
Total Time 35 Approx
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Words in the News – Worksheet B - Vocabulary
Anne Bancroft dies – 8 June 2005
Cut up the following vocabulary items. Ask students to match them correctly with the definitions.
1. rapaciously seductive
2. to work miracles
3. to avoid the trap of type-casting
4. sultry
5. to cement
6. to launch
7. persona
8. beloved
9. impeccable instinct
10. to compromise
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Words in the News – Worksheet B - Definitions
Anne Bancroft dies – 8 June 2005
Cut up the following definitions. Ask students to match them correctly with the vocabulary items.
a. an agreement that is acceptable to both people in an argument (with each not getting 100% of what they asked for originally)
b. manage not to play similar roles in other films
c. to produce great events
d. faultless ability to act in a certain way (without having to learn it)
e. to join together, to establish permanently (in a relationship)
f. sexually very hungry, having a great appetite for something
g. to begin, to give somebody the first chance to perform
h. causing or showing great sexual attraction
i. a character a person takes on, for example in a film or a play
j. dearly loved
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Words in the News – Worksheet C
Anne Bancroft dies – 8 June 2005
In English there are a lot of homophones - words that are pronounced the same but which have different spellings and meanings. For example, there, their and they're.
For each of the words below, find a homophone for it from the text. Note its spelling and create a sentence to show both meanings of the word. The first one has been done for you:
spelling 1 sentence 1 spelling 2 sentence 2 one She has only one brother. won We won the championship.
inn
four
butt
roll
board
wood
bee
too
maid
buy
sun
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Words in the News
Anne Bancroft dies – 8 June 2005
Answers
Worksheet A
1. True – Paragraph 1 'Anne Bancroft won an Oscar in 1962…It was one of her proudest moments'.
2. False - Paragraph 2 says ' Bancroft avoided the trap of type-casting in her later work'.
3. True – Paragraph 3 says ' "The Graduate" would launch her…co-star…Dustin Hoffman. He would become a movie star'.
4. True – Paragraph 3 of the text says 'became known for her willingness to take on a challenging range of personas'.
5. False – Paragraph 4 says 'Showing impeccable instincts, she persuaded Brookes to create a stage musical out of his film 'The Producers'.'
6. False – Paragraph 5 says 'was persuaded by Hollywood bosses to change her name…to help her career. It was one of the few compromises made by one of America's finest…actresses.'
Worksheet B
1. f 2. c 3. b 4. h 5. e 6. g 7. i 8. j 9. d 10. a
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Words in the News
Anne Bancroft dies – 8 June 2005
Answers
Worksheet c
Various answers are possible for the sentences. Here are some examples: spelling 1 sentence 1 spelling 2 sentence 2 one She has only one brother. won We won the championship.
An 'inn' is an old-fashioned Come in for a cup of tea. inn word for a pub. in
four What's four plus five? for What is this for?
He's always the butt of her butt jokes. I don't know how he but I like tea but not coffee. puts up with her. You need to roll out the I liked Nicole Kidman in roll dough to make bread. role that weather forecaster role in the film 'To Die For'. She got interviewed by a Sometimes I'm really board board of 3 people for that bored bored by what's on TV. job. We need some wood for the Would you open the door wood fire. would please?
I was stung by a bee last She wants to be a doctor bee summer. be when she is older.
She's two years older than Where are you going to? two me. to
They have a maid who does Paper is made from trees. maid all the cleaning in their made house. I go to work by bike. buy I bought a bike 2 years ago. by
I like having lunch in the They have a son and two sun park when the sun is son daughters. shinning.
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