Listening British Council What's in a name?

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo k, mavo
• Leerjaar 4

What are we going to do?

• Practice with listening 
• Listen to a clip about 'names'

Aims

• You will be able to speak about the topic; 'names' in English.
• After listening to a clip you will be able to answer multiple choice questions and fill in the gap exercises about the clip.

What's in a name?

Disscusion points

• Is your name traditional or modern?
• Does your name have a translation in other languages?
• Does anyone in your family share your name?
• Do you know any famous people with the same name as you?

Before listening

• Go to task 2.
• Guess the answers to the questions.

What's in a name?

Answers

1 a

2 b

3 b

4 c

Task 3

Make a list of all the names you remember from listening to the clip. 

Task 4

Fill in the gap exercise. 

What's in a name?

Answers

a) nouns

b) surnames

c) month

d) colour

e) Place

f) jobs

g) letters

Choose your own task

a) Classify the names into groups.

b) Order the names from most common to most unusual.

c) Translate the meaning of the names into Dutch.

d) Find famous people with these names.

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