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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/which-is-better-soap-or-hand-sanitizer-alex-rosenthal-and-pall-thordarson
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- Speaking Section: third section, after the break; 17 minutes total; 3m45s speaking time; 4 tasks
- 1 (old 2) independent, choice question - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
- 2 (old 3) integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
- 3 (old 4) integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
- 4 (old 6) integrated L/S, academic lecutre - 20/60
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- ETS 1.4 example (critical period)
- Text: introduces and explains a general concept
- - identify the definition of the concept (the first sentence defines it)
- - identify any key features or components (what happens if the needed stimulus doesn’t happen)
- Lecture: usually gives examples of the concept from the text
- - kittens: don’t develop eyesight if they’re in the dark for the first 4 months
- - geese: follow the first moving thing they see during their first two days, even if it’s not a parent
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- https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_merzenich_growing_evidence_of_brain_plasticity
- https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_the_illusion_of_consciousness
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- BREAK
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- Climate and Environment vocabulary - Take 10 minutes to find the words in each sentence that have the given definitions.
- 1 precipitation - precipitate (This also includes snow, hail, sleet, etc.)
- 2 temperature
- 3 role (Expressions with “play a role” are metaphorical extensions of an actor playing a role in e.g. a play.)
- Better to say: “play a role” = “perform a function” or “have an influence”
- 4 fundamental - fundamentally
- 5 ecosystem
- “An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem
- - community = the collection of different populations and their interactions
- - population = a group of one species in a particular area
- 6 drought
- 7 atmosphere - atmospheric
- 8 lead to
- 9 fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, and coal)
- 10 release (n and v)
- 11 emission - emit
- 12 absorb - absorption, absorbant
- 13 reflect - reflection, reflective
- 14 sustainable - sustainability
- 15 ecologist - ecology, ecological
- 16 deplete - depletion, depletable
- 17 deforestation - deforest(ed/ing)
- 18 tropics - tropical
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- Handout 2 p. 2 part A - Take 3 minutes to match the words with the examples.
- 1 e
- 2 f
- 3 a
- 4 b
- 5 c
- 6 d
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- part B - Choose the correct option to complete each sentence.
- 1 c (“such as the polar regions” means the polar regions are an example of the word we need)
- 2 a (fossil fuels are the only choice that we use)
- 3 b
- 4 c
- 5 c
- 6 a
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- part C - Choose the correct form of the words from the first page to complete the paragraph
- 1 role
- 2 temperature
- 3 atmosphere
- 4 ecosystems
- 5 Ecologists
- 6 reflected
- 7 has depleted
- 8 absorb
- 9 sustainable
- 10 fossil fuels
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