2019-08-01 Level 6: 5 video and journeys

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: read the text on p. 63 and do parts 2, 3, and 4 on p. 62
Compare your answers and check your understanding of any new vocabulary.
part 2 - c
part 3
1 forty
2 toads
3 Every shelf
4 almonds
5 dam, built
6 two books of
part 4
1 lonely, overgrown
2 dark, dusty, two-roomed, (We could use “tin-roofed”, but the author doesn’t.)
3 intense, luminous, alone
4 cosmic (scope), astonishing, limited (production), weighty
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hard mistress (often “harsh mistress”) = something that you love but which is harsh (literally: hard woman to love); OR something that is harsh but must be obeyed
	https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77832/meaning-of-harsh-mistress
paean = song (or poem) of praise or triumph
Deluge = flood (when it’s capitalized, it usually means the Biblical Flood in the book of Genesis)
clatter = a sound like a rattling; hard things hitting together
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One common form of compound adjective adds ‘ed’ to part of something to describe the whole
	tin-roofed, two-roomed, kind-hearted, green-eyed, three-legged, one-armed
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Vocabulary: “cast”
cast (verb) = throw (and many related figurative meanings)
	“She casts her spell.”
part 8 - Complete these other phrases with “cast”, then discuss what you think the meaning is.
1 mind
2 net
3 eye (usually “eyes”)
4 doubt
5 vote
6 shadow
(“cast” is the normal verb for the nouns “vote” and “doubt”)
broadcast -> podcast (like broadcast radio shows, but for iPods and similar devices)
	(This also gives us “newscast”, “webcast”, “livecast”.)
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p. 66 - Where do you think this picture was taken?
What is the Camino de Santiago?
- It’s a pilgrimmage path.
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part 3 - Watch the video and answer these questions.
part 4 - Watch part of the video again and explain the importance of these things.
a - He was in a bookstore (waiting for his girlfriend) when he found a book on the Camino de Santiago
b - He read the book on the plane (months later).
c - The Internet wasn’t really a thing he could use for research, so he contacted the author directly.
d - The author was working for Harper’s at the time.
e - The author gave him his home phone number, and he called repeatedly.
part 5 - Watch the next part and answer these questions.
1 a transformative, terrifying
  b lonely, miserable
  c a religious experience
  d unafraid
2 To see if he could take care of himself.
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part 6 - Watch the last part of the video and answer these questions.
1 He isn’t sure if it’s a good idea to repeat the same trip again.
2 one month
3 hostels (refugios) and inns (pensiones)
4 gold card; He had the pilgrim experience, but with more luxury and better accommodations.
5 He wanted to meet the local people, not just the other tourists and pilgrims.
part 7 - Can you remember the information to complete this summary?
1 bookstore
2 walked
3 Spain
4 grabbed/brought/took
5 Internet
6 author/writer
7 transformative
8 lonely
9 changed
10 unafraid
11 inns/pensiones
12 locals
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Communicative Activity - describing a journey
- Write your own information about a trip or journey you’ve taken.
- Then ask your partner questions about their trip and complete the chart with information.
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genre
rendezvous
entrepreneur
reservoir
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Tomorrow’s project: prepare a travel itinerary for a “themed” world vacation
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p. 163 practice 1 and 2 - substitution and nominalization
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Homework: think of themes and places for the project, finish p. 163 if you didn’t in class