Flp Lis Eminem

Sample Formal Lesson Plan: Listening Eminem Bruce Lawrence

Objectives: Students will learn different slang and some swearing related to Eminem and rap music. Some of this language may be offensive to some, but it is a window into American culture, and hey it sells records. Prerequisites: Students need to have an intermediate level of listening comprehension, because the words are really fast and they must have heard some profanity before. Level: Intermediate-Advanced; Adults only Duration: 20 minutes dictation and 20 minutes discussion Materials: Eminem tape; lyrics from www.lyrics.com Set up: whole class group work Anticipated problems: Some students will get discouraged because the language is so fast. Encourage them. Pause the tape if necessary, but make them work at it!

Warm up: T: What did you do on the weekend? S: Sleep. Eat. Watch TV. Go clubbing. Study grammar. T: Did any of you watch TV? S: Y/N T: What did you watch? <Specific Qs> T: Do you know MTV? S: Y/N/a little T: Who is a famous rapper on MTV? Ss: Various answers. T: Do you know Eminem? S: Y/N T: Who is he? Ss: Various answers. Yeah, when I came back to Vancouver in 2000 I had an afternoon class full of mostly Latin American students and they really liked this rapper named “Eminem.” So I asked them to bring in a tape and I got the lyrics for it and wow! Man, it was just full of swearing. He is really controversial because he raps about sex all the time. Teaching: T: Today you’re going to do a dictation! T: Groan! T: But it will be on Eminem and a lot of it is baaaaaaaaaaaaaad language. T: What do you think he will say? What kind of bad language do you know. Ss: Silence. They won’t admit that they know it. (various guesses) T: Oh, come on. You all know some. What are they? Ss: Son of a bitch? T: Right

<elicit various profanity> son of a bitch mother fucker oh my god shit fuck <eliciting definitions> T: Who knows what this is? <point to first one? Ss: various guesses/unnerving silence T: Well, is it a nice thing to say? Or is it an insult? Ss: insult T: Who do you say that to? A woman? Ss: No, a man. T: Right. Is it insulting his father? Ss: No his mother. T: Yeah, what about the next one? (continue to elicit all swear words) Main activities: <Part I: First listening> T: OK, here is a sheet with the words to the song on them. But you will notice that some of the words are missing. You are going to listen to the song and try to write the correct words in the blanks. I have put spaces to indicate how many words there are in the missing sentence to make it easier. For example in the first line of the chorus on page 2, how many words are there Ss: 8 T: Right. The apostrophe indicates a contraction. OK, everyone ready? Let’s go. <Part II: Pair work> T: OK, that was difficult wasn’t it? So, get together with your partner and work together to try to get all the words.

<Part III: S to T dictation> T: OK, now let’s work together to get the right answers. What was the first blank? T: OK, now to listen again to the song to get the right answers. I’m going to play the tape and pause after each blank and we’ll see if we got it right. T: OK so now that we have all the words right, what does the song mean? Ss: various answers T: OK, now I want you to try to figure out this very difficult grammar handout! Closure: Are you finished? What’s the answer to number one/two/three/ etc. OK, now in groups of 3 discuss these questions. Closure: Yoon, what do you think of question one? <elicit opinions from Ss> Wrap up: What does “flipping the bird” mean? What does “fucked up” mean? What does “damn” mean? What finger should you use when you point? How do you play “Got your nose”? As a joke how should you respond to your friend teasing you?

Contingency plan: If students finish early have them use the new vocabulary in a sentence. Homework: Easy: Write three sentences using the new words you learned. Difficult: Write a paragraph stating swearing is a good or a bad thing to learn!

Eminem comprehension sheet 1. What do the following words mean? a. Ass b. You-know-what c. You-know-who d. Hump e. Cuss f. Fuck g. Damn h. Head

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Bitch VD Head trip Balls Valiums Jackin off Viagra fingers

The word “fuck” is probably the most versatile word in the English language. As you can see form the list below it fits into almost every grammatical category. It’s a shame it’s not taught more often. Tee hee. Verb (to have sex with someone): I fucked her. She fucked me. We fucked. Verb II (to do something bad to someone): She fucked with my mind. Interjection (when something bad happens): Fuck! Aw Fuck! Fuckin’ A! Adjective I (negative attribute): Fucking X. Fucked up X. This X is (all) fucked up. Adjective II (to be drunk or stoned): We were really fucked up. Noun (general insult): I hate that fucker. You mother fucker. You dumbfuck. Infix I (before the stressed syllable): re-fucking-markable, in-fucking-credible. Infix II (after a WH-word): What the fuck are you doing? Try to fill in the blanks from the list below. dumbfuck fuckin’ A fucked

in-fucking-credible mother-fucking fucked with

fucked up the fuck fucker

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Can you believe how much George W. Bush _________________ his country?

2.

She’s beautiful, but she really ___________________ my mind.

3. Just because we __________________ he thinks he owns me. 4.

I can’t understand anything that ____________________ professor says.

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That guy’s stupid. What a __________________.

6. Class is over! ____________________ ! 7. You finished your homework? ______________________ ! 8. Sammy! You old __________________! How are you? 9.

I’m late for the test! What ____________________ am I doing?

Eminem Discussion Questions 1. Do you like the song? 2. What do you think of the lyrics? 3. What kind of person is Eminem? 4. Why is he so popular? 5. Do you think all American teenagers are like him? Why? Why not? 6.

Is American/Western culture decaying because of morality?

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Is Asian culture decaying because of American influence?

8. What do you think about premarital/lesbian/gay/other sex? 9. How are young Asians and old Asians different in their views about sex/music/jobs/other? 10. Do you think it is appropriate for ESL students to study swearing? Why? Why not? 11. Why do humans swear?

EMINEM The Real Slim Shady

May I have your attention please? May I have your attention please? Will ___ _____ _____ _______ please stand up? I repeat, will ___ _____ _____ _______ please stand up? We're gonna have a problem here.. Y'all act like you never seen a white person before Jaws all on the floor like Pam, like Tommy just burst in the ______ and started whoopin her ____ worse than before they first were divorce, throwin her over furniture (Ahh!) It's the return of the... "Ah, wait, no way, you're ____________, he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?" And Dr. Dre said... nothing you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement! (Ha-ha!) Feminist women love Eminem {*vocal turntable: chigga chigga chigga*} "Slim Shady, I'm sick of him Look at him, walkin around grabbin his ____-_______-________ Flippin the ____-_______-________," "Yeah, but he's so cute though!" Yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose

But no worse, than what's goin on in your parents' _____________ Sometimes, I wanna get on TV and just let loose, but can't but it's cool for Tom Green to ______ a dead moose "My bum is on your lips, my bum is on your lips" And if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss And that's the message that we deliver to little kids And expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is Of course they gonna know what _______________ is By the time they hit fourth grade They got the Discovery Channel don't they? "We ain't nothing but mammals.." Well, some of us cannibals who cut other people open like cantaloupes {*SLURP*} But if we can _______dead animals and antelopes then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope {*EWWW!*} But if you feel like I feel, I got the antidote Women wave your pantyhose, sing the chorus and it goes

Chorus: Eminem (repeat 2X) __’_ _____ ______, ____ __’_ ____ ______ _______ ____ ____ _______ _____ ________ ____ ______ _____________ ___ _____’_ ____ ______ ______ _________ ________ _______ ___ Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his ___________; well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too! You think I give a damn about a __________? Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me "But Slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird?" Why? So you guys could just lie to get me here? So you can, sit me here next to _______ __________? Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst and hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first You little ____, put me on blast on MTV "Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee!" I should download her audio on _______ and show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD {*AHHH!*} I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups, all you do is annoy me so I have been sent here to destroy you {*bzzzt*} And there's a million of us just like me who cuss like me; who just don't give a _______ like me who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me and just might be the next best thing but not quite me! Chorus

I'm like a head trip to listen to, cause I'm only givin you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room The only difference is I got the ______ to say it in front of y'all and I don't gotta be false or sugarcoated at all I just get on the mic and spit it and whether you like to admit it {*ERR*} I just shit it better than ninety percent of you rappers out can Then you wonder how can kids eat up these albums like valiums It's funny; cause at the rate I'm goin when I'm thirty I'll be the only person in the nursin home ___________ Pinchin nurses asses when I'm jackin off with Jergens And I'm jerkin but this whole bag of __________ isn't working And every single person is a Slim Shady lurkin He could be workin at Burger King, spittin on your onion rings {*HACH*} Or in the parkin lot, circling Screaming "I don't give a _______!" with his windows down and his system up So, will the real Shady please stand up? And put one of those fingers on each hand up? And be proud to be outta your mind and outta control

and one more time, loud as you can, how does it go?