Introduction
Today, we are going to check listening skills by listening to the audio and filling in the blanks. In this activity, verbs and prepositions in sentences are blocked.
Task
mp3 English Words of Foreign Origin https://englishgate.tistory.com/3592
Process
Q. Listen to the audio and fill in the blanks.
shampoo
The word shampoo comes ____ the Hindi word chāmpo, which means “to press.” In India, the word was used ___ a head massage. British traders in India experienced a bath with a head massage and introduced it to Britain in the 18th century. The meaning of the word shampoo changed a few times after it first entered English around 1762. In the 19th century, shampoo got its present meaning of “washing the hair.” Shortly after that, the word began to __ also ____ ___ a special soap for the hair.
robot
The word robot comes from the play R.U.R.*, which was written in 1920 by a Czech writer Karel Čapek. In the play, robots are machines that look like humans. They are designed __ work for humans and are produced in a factory. It is interesting that the idea of using the word robot didn’t come from Karel Čapek himself. He __________ called the machines in his play labori from the Latin word for “work.” However, his brother _________ roboti, which means “slave workers” in Czech. Karel Čapek liked the idea and decided to use the word roboti. In 1938, the play was made into a science fiction show on television in Britain.
hurricane
The word hurricane _____ from the Spanish word huracán, _____ originates from the name of a Mayan god. In the Mayan creation myth, Huracán is the weather god of wind, storm, and fire, and he is one of the three gods who created humans. However, the first humans angered the gods, so Huracán ______ a great flood. The first Spanish contact with the Mayan civilization was in 1517. Spanish explorers who were passing through the Caribbean ___________ a hurricane and picked up the word for it from the people in the area*. In English, one of the early uses of hurricane was in a play by Shakespeare in 1608.
hamburger
The word hamburger originally comes from Hamburg, Germany’s second-_______ city. Hamburger means “people or things from Hamburg” in German. The origin of the first hamburger is not _____. However, it is believed that the hamburger was invented __ a small town in Texas, USA, sometime between 1885 and 1904. A cook placed a Hamburg-style steak* _______ two slices of bread, and people started to call such food a hamburger.
Evaluation
Check how many words students were correct. (Tot:15 words)
Conclusion
prepositions: from for to between
verbs: be used suggested comes caused experienced clear
Check their errors and assess what kind of part they are struggling while listening.
Teacher Page
<Answer>
shampoo: from for be used for
robot: to originally suggested
hurricane: comes which caused experienced
hamburger: largest clear between