Can you

1

• Can you
• do RP?
• think PC?
• podcast on MP5?
• follow EMINEM?
• fit the CEF?
• speak ELF?
• BWMF?

2

• Are we teaching what our students want to hear?

3
What do our
students want?

• real life
  language
• 
  relative to them
• 
  stimulating activities
• functional language
• Internet-speak
  
• World English
  

4
What do our
students need?

• grammar rules
• linkers
• phrasal verbs
• exams
• text books
• controlled input

5
What do our
students really need?

• guided fluency
  
• linguistic flexibility
• confidence-buiding
• coherent interaction
• ability to express themselves
• ability to understand main ideas

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Where does this
lead us?

• 
  ability to understand main ideas
• real life language
  Internet-speak
• linguistic flexibility
  relative to them
• World English
  functional language
• 
  
  
• ability
  to express themselves

English
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Ability to understand main ideas

• EMINEM 8 Mile Road (extract)
• Somethin ain't right, hit the brake
  lightsCase of the stage fright, drawin a blank
  like
• Something is not right, I step on the brakes
• It is a case of stage fright, I am drawing a
  blank
• There is a problem, I stop what I am doing
• I am scared, I do not know what to do
• Somethin correcto, golpeó las luces del
  freno Caso del fright
• de la etapa, drawin que un espacio en
  blanco tiene gusto
• Can demonstrate a very basic repertoire of words
  and phrases A1
• 
  
  

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Real life language

• The Church of England is struggling to find a
  polite word for the worlds oldest profession
  sex worker is deemed unsuitable, one
  possibility is people involved in prostitution.
• The TUC has advised Members to avoid using
  ageist terms such as Granddad.
• Teachers are being urged to stop using the work
  failure to describe pupils work in favour of
  deferred success.
• The NHS have instructed staff that patients
  are only the people in hospital, out-patients are
  now clients.
• Church of England warning in guidelines to
  bishops and vicars that calling God He
  encourages wife-beating.
  
• Police officers have been banned from using the
  word yob in case it offends delinquents.
• Can recognise implicit meaning C1
  
  
  

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Internet-speak

• 1 There's a bridge called "Covert's Crossing" or
  "Covert's Bridge" up in
• 2 New Castle. A young couple had gotten married
  on Halloween. Around
• 3 midnight, they were riding in a horse drawn
  carriage across the bridge
• 4 at the same time a car. The bridge was only one
  lane, so by the time
• 5 they saw each other it was too late. Story has
  it that they crashed and
• 6the hubcap of the car flew off, decapitating the
  bride. The police never ?
• 7 found her head or the body of the groom. Its
  been said that if you sit on
• 8 the bridge on Halloween night around midnight,
  you can sees the
• 9 headless bride standing on some rocks of the
  river. However they don't

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Linguistic flexibility

• 1. Smirt (v)
• 2. Muggle (n)
• 3. Zorbing (n)
• 4. Blamestorm (v)
• 5. Chav (n)
• 6. Moob (n)
• 7. Peppièr (n)
• 8. Smooze (v)
• Has a good command of idiomatic expressions and
  colloquialisms C2
• 
  
  

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Relative to them

• The human linguistic faculty seems to be
  in good shapeThe arrival of
• Netspeak is showing us homo loquens
  at its best David Crystal
• Chat Room Initialisms
• JAM KIT KISS SWIM
  
• Dangers of initialisms Chat room codes
• PRW LMIRL TYKO
• Problems with initialisms
• PTO
• Other fashionable initialisms
• BP / BCE WYSIWYG MBWA
• Scottish Qualifications Authority
• 2 B r nt 2 B
• Can interact with a degree of fluency and
  spontaneity that makes interaction with native
  speakers possible without strain for either party
  B2

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World English

• Are these examples of real English?
• Is it a question of context? or are they wrong?
• a) Actually he wants a particular teacher.
• b) She was a single child and now shes a
  single mother.
• c) Were doing up a loft on the ground floor.
• d) They arrived at the camping at tea-time
  5 oclock!
• e) I asked her to resume the plot in 100
  words or less.
• f) How comes youve gotten so fat?
• 
  
• Can make themselves understood in short turns
  A2
• 
  

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Functional language

• To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to
  men French and to my horse German.
• Charles V
• French to my ambassadores, English to my
  accountant, Italian to my mistress, Latin to my
  gods, German to my horse
• Frederick the Great of Prussia
• We should speak French for Molière, Italian
  for Dante, German for Göethe, Spanish for
  Cervantes, English for Shakespeare and Globish to
  discuss the price of steel in China.
• Jean-Paul Nerrièr
• Can use language flexibly, for social, academic
  and professional purposes C1
  

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Ability to express themselves

• Four score and seven years ago our
  fathers brought forth on this continent a new
  nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to
  the proposition that all men are created equal.
• Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
  1863
• Our fathers came to this land
  eighty-seven years ago. Theybrought to this land
  a new nation, it was formed in freedom, and was
  committed to the belief that all men are created
  equal.
• Gettysburg Address, Globish 2007
• Can understand and use basic everyday phrases
  A1
  
  

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Mouth-Water In Menus(a selection from the finest
tables)

• Egg crocket
• or
• Fried wantons
• Unfrozen beef-rips
• or
• Veal knee
• or
• Chilly chicken
• Crape with fruit
• or
• Orange,s
• or
• Bananas
• ? We want your back! ?
• Can understand sentences and frequently used
  expressions related to immediately relevant
  areas A2