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LIVING THE LANGUAGE Ngọng Session 1 Instructor: Hồ Lê Vũ

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OVERVIEW • Warm-up activity – English around the world

• Realistic learning goals • Course Overview – reading – listening • a sample American Idol listening task • other show samples

– speaking – presentation & script writing – other activities

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WARM-UP • Match clips with their respective accents – – – – – – –

American English Australian English British English Canadian English New Zealand English Scottish English Welsh English

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POINTS OF THE WARM-UP? • Set realistic learning goals: understand what matters in speaking and listening → speaking goals: native-like accent? – Extremely few L2 learners achieve native-like proficiency in oral skills. Why? → more about this in Learning Theories → don’t become too self-conscious and/or feel inferior because of your accent – English dialects differ widely in terms of pronunciation • The language of instruction in this class: American English? WHY? → listen to a short explanation for the most important reason

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REALISTIC LEARNING GOALS • Your spoken English is considered decent if

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– You can make yourself understood. – You can put to effective use some general important principles in English speaking (instead of trying to get every single sound correct) → watch a sample clip – You can (occasionally) use idioms & expressions the way native speakers do → watch a sample clip – You have a passable intonation/inflection → watch a sample clip You → now don't have aalso centtend to your name. why Vietnamese to have problems with this? The car's – You canpulling describeup. Pamela Anderson … That's what sheusing said your on the phone. without hands 

She moves fast. She doesn't have time to play hard to get. We can do small talk later, dear. I need to ask you both a favor. That's not a little white lie. I think this face speaks for itself.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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READING MATERIALS – Show introduction and episode summary – Behind-the-scene information

WHY? → It facilitates both listening comprehension and class discussion → It offers opportunities for schwa and intonation practice → It serves as pronunciation checkpoints and means for self-correction HOW – At home reading • Practice reading out loud and monitor your pronunciation and intonation, using samples read by native speakers • look up new words – Brief discussion in class

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FUN ACTIVITY

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LISTENING • A sample listening task: – Watch a clip in which • Adam Lambert performs Ring of Fire, a Johnny Cash's classical song for the Country music week on AI. • Randy Travis, a country star, is the mentor.

– Answer the questions on the assignment sheet – Identify idioms and common expressions used in the clip

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LISTENING • Important structures: – My initial reaction to the Grand Ole Opry week. • The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert that has presented the biggest stars of that genre.

– When Bill heard the news, it threw him for a loop. • The manager knocked Bob for a loop by firing him immediately. • Their shotgun wedding caught the whole family off guard. → watch sample clips

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LISTENING • Important structures: – Even though she failed, we still gave her points for trying. • Even though her song choice is stupid, the judge gave the singer props for taking a masculine song into a pretty female place. • Even though his English is not perfect, I do give him credit for trying new things once in a while.

– That’s what I’m going for. • We’ll go for | shoot for [MORE INFORMAL] the first prize.

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LISTENING • Important structures: – She wasn't sure what to make of his absence. • Well, what did you make of her?

– As an emerging professional, I have recently taken steps to help me stand out in a crowd. Two years ago I went back to school to earn a master’s degree. • The first way to stand out from the crowd is to take time to do the little things right.

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LISTENING • Important structures: – You are either a quick study or a born natural. = a fast learner • She proves to be a natural with modeling. | That child actor is obviously a natural.

– You raise your own bar each week and we are gonna keep expecting more and more great things out of you. vs. The first performer sets the bar so high it puts great pressure on next contestants. • If we raise the bar, more students will fail in the exams. vs. lower the bar

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LISTENING • At-home listening – Audio files via class email list • higher level of listening comprehension (without visual aids)

– At-home listening tasks for upcoming sessions – At-home listening tasks for a summary of learned structures

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OTHER SHOW SAMPLES • The class uses materials from about 70 different TV shows. Class groups will present at least 6 more new shows. • The first half is more sound-focused & the second half is more vocabulary-focused

→ watch introduction clips of some of the main shows

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SPEAKING • (for the next session) Listen and compare Adam Lambert’s performance of Ring of Fire and the original version by Johnny Cash → listen to a sample of Cash’s version

• in terms of – – – –

singer’s voice (tone, range and technique) musical arrangement conformity to traditions and conventions of country genre interpretation and reflection of the songwriter’s feeling and mood when she composed the song – your own reaction when you listen to the song

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PRESENTATION & SCRIPT WRITING • Present topics relevant to a particular show suggested by the instructor – teamwork – present about the shows NOT covered in the class • Examples: America's Got Talent, The Voice, Pretty Little Liars, Once Upon A Time, Good Morning America, and Glee.

• Write scripts for short silent movies using structured learned in the class

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OTHER ACTIVITIES • Warm-up & fun activities – – – –

Listening challenge Idiom identification Riddle and puzzle completion Short comedy skits and parodies

• Revision exercises – Idiom games – Idiom singing competition

• Other fun activities – Lie detection activity – Class Solidarity day

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CLASS MONITOR • Class monitor position – Self-nominate and be chosen by the teacher – Benefits: • The class monitor receives 1 mil VND cashback at the end of the course • Leadership experiences for your CV and future applications – The instructor reserves the right to cancel/replace the class monitor

• Duties – Make copies of class materials • Photocopy fee: 20.000 VND – Make class announcements – Co-ordinate class events – Pay back the money when the teacher runs away

• Self-nomination – I’ll post a call for the position of class monitor via email – Follow the instructions in that email to self-nominate

• Hướng dẫn nhiệm vụ dành cho lớp trưởng – http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=467136063350230

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WARNING • It is a BIG class. Focus more on listening than speaking • It is NOT a course about pronunciation – self- and group practices are expected

• NO simplified vocabulary: – Unless you are a very advanced learner, you will encounter tons of new lexical items (to simulate the learning environment abroad)

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• It is NOT a course about TOEFL/IELTS speaking & listening – similar but more challenging listening comprehension tasks – mostly American accents – BUT…

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HOMEWORK • Review new idioms and fixed expressions learned in this session. → The MONEY BOX

• Listen to the emailed audio file at home and answer at-home listening questions (the LAST FOUR questions on the handout). We’ll have group competition on this next time. • Also listen to a SUMMARY of many (if not all) structures learned in today’s session and write them down IN THE ORDER they appear in the audio. • Listen and compare Adam Lambert’s performance of Ring of Fire and the original version by Johnny Cash

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COMING UP NEXT… • • • • • •

NO classes until 5 Jan Warm-up: idiom identification task Speaking: Ring of fire - Adam Lambert vs. Johny Cash Homework solutions Group assignment Class policy

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