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Hoodie
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Lesson Plan: Teacher's notes
Hoodie
CONTENTS
1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials

2. Lesson stages
3. Answers
4. Audio script
5. Student worksheets 1, 2, 3
Level: Intermediate and above

Topic: Clothes, fashion and appearance
Aims: Listening skills – A short talk
Language – ‘Hoodie’ and other words ending in ‘ie’ or ‘y’
Materials: Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,

Listening section 1
Worksheet 2 – Listening section 2
Worksheet 3 – Extra work: Vocabulary, language and discussion
Audio script – Available in teacher’s notes
Recording of the talk – Available online at bbclearningenglish.com
This plan was downloaded from:
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Hoodie
LESSON STAGES
A
Explain to the students that they are going to listen to a talk by Professor David Crystal, an
expert on the English language, and that the talk is about the way English is changing. This
particular talk is about the phrase ‘hoodie’.
B
Hand out Student Worksheet 1. Students do Speaking, Exercise 1 in small groups or
pairs.
C
Students do Vocabulary, Exercise 2 - without dictionaries at first.
Practise the pronunciation of the vocabulary, as they will hear it in the talk.
D
Students read Listening: Section 1, Exercise 3 and then listen to Section 1 of the talk.
They answer the questions ‘a’ and ‘b‘.
Students listen again and do Listening: Section 1, Exercise 4.
E
Hand out Student Worksheet 2
Students read Listening: Section 2, Exercise 5 and then listen to Section 2 of the talk.
They answer questions ‘a‘ and ‘b’.
F
Students try to answer Listening: Section 2, Exercise 6. They listen again to Section 2 to
check/complete their answers.
G
If you wish to do some extra work with the class, hand out Student Worksheet 3
For the vocabulary exercise, give the students copies of the audio script and play the
complete talk as they read.
The language work focuses on other words with the same familiarity marker – ‘ie’ or ‘y’
The final discussion activity is connected to the general topic of the lesson – ‘appearance’

Hoodie
AUDIO SCRIPTS
Listening Section 1
There was a newspaper headline in the middle of last year, ‘Hoodie Hoodlums’ it said. It
referred to people who were going around looking like gangs wearing hooded tops,
baseball caps, clothing which deliberately obscured the face, suggesting that the wearer
might be a danger to the public, so much so that baseball caps and hooded tops were
actually banned in 2005 at one shopping mall in Britain. Well, as you might expect, it
caused a huge reaction. I mean, youngsters complaining of being stereotyped just because
of a few nasty people.
Listening Section 2
The linguistics isn’t so controversial. The spelling first of all: ‘hoody’, or ‘hoodie’, and
more often with the ‘ie’ than not. And that’s because it’s the usual familiarity marker that
you get on lots of words in English, words like, sweetie, auntie, goalie (goal keeper),
daddy and mummy, and of course in names too, Susie (Susan).
Well, will it catch on? I think so, judging by the huge sales of hoodies now. And also, it’s
achieved a kind of presence in popular music. There was a single released towards the end
of 2005 by Lady Sovereign, it was actually called ‘Hoodie’. And then on the web the other
day, I was looking at ipods, and the latest accessory to keep your ipod clothed – what do
you think it’s called? An ipod hoodie!

Hoodie
ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
Exercise 2
a. hoodlum a violent or destructive person; a hooligan
b. gang a group of people who work as a team; often a group of criminals
c. shopping mall a pedestrianised, indoor purpose-built centre for shops
d. to be stereotyped people say you have certain characteristics because you are a
member of a certain group
e. a single a song released for sale, usually of pop music
f. iPod a brand of MP3 digital music player
LISTENING: SECTION 1
Exercise 3
a. iii. make something easier in order to attract people

b. ii. the verb with an object
Exercise 4
a. False – ‘Way back in the 1930s’

b. True – ‘It was an American usage.’
c. False – ‘It has the same meaning’
LISTENING: SECTION 2
Exercise 5
a. ii. The information and ideas in the programmes are unimportant or silly
Exercise 6
a. False – ‘It now refers to any of the media where the content is being trivialised’
b. False – ‘I’ve even heard the word as a noun’
c. True – ‘there’s no dumbing down on this website!’.

Hoodie
EXTRA WORK
VOCABULARY
Exercise 7
a. obscured
b. catch on
c. accessory
LANGUAGE
Exercise 8a
a. veggie/y
b. cossie/cozzie
c. wellies
d. postie/y
e. undies
f. nighty
g. oldie/y
h. sickie/y
i. weepie/y
j. footie/y
Exercise 8b
a. vegetarian - veggie/y
b. swimming costume - cossie/cozzie
c. Wellington boots - wellies
d. postman/postwoman - postie/y
e. underwear - undies
f. night dress - nighty
g. old person - oldie/y
h. a sick day / a day off sick - sickie/y
i. a film that makes you weep - weepie/y
j. football - footie/y

WORKSHEET 1
SPEAKING
1. Discuss these questions with a partner
a. How often do you go clothes shopping?

b. Do you have favourite clothes shops?
c. Do you think you follow particular clothes fashions?
d. What influences you when you choose new clothes e.g. price, quality, brand, current
fashion, classic fashions, friends, family?
e. What kind of clothes do you like wearing?
VOCABULARY
2. Match these words and phrases to their definitions
a. hoodlum a song released for sale, usually of pop music
b. gang a pedestrianised, indoor purpose-built centre for shops
c. shopping mall a violent or destructive person; a hooligan
d. to be stereotyped a brand of MP3 digital music player
e. a single people say you have certain characteristics because you are
a member of a certain group
f. iPod a group of people who work as a team; often a group of
criminals

LISTENING SECTION 1
3. Now, listen to Professor Crystal talking about the use of the word 'hoodie' in
English and answer these questions.
a. Which piece of clothing does ‘hoodie’ refer to?

i. a type of hat which you wear to keep the sun out of your eyes
ii. a T-shirt with no sleeves that you wear in the summer
iii. a heavy shirt with an extra piece of material that you put over your head
iv. a pair of trousers that you usually wear when playing sports
b. Who usually wears a ‘hoodie’?

i. babies and small children
ii. teenagers and young people
iii. adults and the elderly
4. Listen to Section 1 again and decide if the following statements are true or
false, according to Professor Crystal.
a. Generally, a ‘hoodie hoodlum’ is not a popular person.

b. A shopping centre does not allow people to wear hoodies.
c. Nobody disagreed with the action of the shopping centre.

WORKSHEET 2
LISTENING SECTION 2
5. Listen to Section 2 of the talk and answer these questions.
a. Which of these words does Professor Crystal give as other examples of similar
spelling?
i. sweaty
ii. auntie
iii. goalie
iv. daddie
v. choosy
b. Does he think the word ‘hoodie’ will stay in the English language?
6. Listen again to Section 2. Are the following sentences true or false?
a. We use the ‘y’ spelling more than the ‘ie’ spelling of hoody/ie.
b. Many songs now use the word ‘hoodie’.
c. The iPod hoodie is something that you can keep your iPod in.

WORKSHEET 3 - EXTRA WORK
VOCABULARY
7. Find the phrases in the text that have the following meanings.
a. concealed; hard to see

b. to become popular and common
c. an extra item which supplements the main item
LANGUAGE
8a. The use of ‘ie or ‘y’ at the end of a word is common in colloquial spoken
English. Match the nouns in the box with the definitions below.
oldie/y nightie/y footie/y weepie/y sickie/y

undies wellies postie/y veggie/y cossie/cozzie
a. Someone who does not eat meat

b. What you wear when you go swimming
c. Plastic boots that you wear in the rain
d. The person who delivers and collects the mail
e. Clothes you wear beneath your trousers or skirt
f. Clothes a woman wears when she goes to bed
g. An elderly person
h. A day when you don’t go to work because you are unwell
i. A cinema film that makes you cry
j. A very popular sport played with a ball
8b. What do you think are the formal versions of these words? For example, an oldie
is an old or elderly person.

DISCUSSION
9. Discuss these questions with your partner.

a. What clothes would you wear in the following situations?
i. a job interview
ii. dinner in an expensive restaurant
iii. a night out at a nightclub or disco
iv. a lazy Sunday morning at home
v. a normal day at work or college
vi. a walk in the mountains or countryside
vii. a trip to the cinema
viii. a trip to the theatre or opera
b. Why do you wear different clothes in different situations?
c. Is it possible to guess someone’s character, social background and lifestyle from the
clothes that they wear? Can you give any examples?
d. What do you think the expression ‘never judge a book by its cover’ means? How does
it relate to people’s appearance?
e. Do you think you sometimes judge people by their appearance? Can you give
examples? e.g. If I am on the street late at night and I see someone wearing a hoodie,
I watch them carefully. But if I see someone wearing a suit, I don’t worry.

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Keep your English

1. Level, topic, language, aims, materials

Level: Intermediate and above

Materials: Worksheet 1 – Introductory speaking and vocabulary exercises,

This plan was downloaded from:

© BBC Learning English bbclearningenglish.com

Students listen again and do Listening: Section 1, Exercise 4.

© BBC Learning English bbclearningenglish.com

© BBC Learning English bbclearningenglish.com

a. iii. make something easier in order to attract people

a. False – ‘Way back in the 1930s’

© BBC Learning English bbclearningenglish.com

© BBC Learning English bbclearningenglish.com

1. Discuss these questions with a partner

a. How often do you go clothes shopping?

2. Match these words and phrases to their definitions

a. hoodlum a song released for sale, usually of pop music

b. gang a pedestrianised, indoor purpose-built centre for shops

c. shopping mall a violent or destructive person; a hooligan

d. to be stereotyped a brand of MP3 digital music player

© BBC Learning English bbclearningenglish.com

a. Which piece of clothing does ‘hoodie’ refer to?

b. Who usually wears a ‘hoodie’?

a. Generally, a ‘hoodie hoodlum’ is not a popular person.

© BBC Learning English bbclearningenglish.com

5. Listen to Section 2 of the talk and answer these questions.

6. Listen again to Section 2. Are the following sentences true or false?

© BBC Learning English bbclearningenglish.com

WORKSHEET 3 - EXTRA WORK

a. concealed; hard to see

oldie/y nightie/y footie/y weepie/y sickie/y

a. Someone who does not eat meat

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9. Discuss these questions with your partner.

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