2019-02-23 Saturday: 1 Colors

Greg Malivuk
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2019-02-23 Saturday: 1 Color
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With your partner, think of a company’s logo or color scheme, and then try to redesign it badly. The catch is that when you explain your idea, you have to promote it. (Imagine that I’m an executive from that company, and your job is to convince me to use your design for our new logo.)
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Colors can be bright or strong, or they can be muted.
- (highly) saturated
- unsaturated/desaturated (= more gray)
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Tom said, “We were studying last weekend.”
-> Tom said that they had been studying the previous weekend.
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If the speaking is (more or less) in the present (compared to the information), or in the future, and I believe the information, I don’t need to change the verb tenses.
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Yesterday, Tom said, “It will rain tomorrow.”
-> Tom said (that) it would rain today.
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Vocabulary: feelings and personal states
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p. 12 part 2 - Choose the correct word for each definition, then talk about whether you or your culture associate any particular colors with these things.
1 prosperity / prosperous
2 luck / lucky
3 courage / courageous
4 wisdom / wise
5 knowledge / knowing/knowledgeable
6 sadness / sad
7 mourning / mournful
8 envy / envious
These are nouns.
What are the corresponding adjectives?
How about the other words you didn’t choose?
passion / passionate
love / loving
anger / angry
happiness / happy
sorrow / sorrowful
power / powerful
joy / joyful
pride / prideful/proud
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p. 10 - Read “Life in color”
What ways do people use colors? What are some other things people do to use colors in these ways?
Identity: black for rock, uniforms at work and school, flag colors, team colors
Decoration: many holidays, special occasions
Messages: red/yellow/green, color-coding, feelings and emotions, brands and logos
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https://www.translatemedia.com/translation-blog/colour-culture-similarities-differences/ - Article and image showing what colors different cultures associate with different emotions.
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Grammar: simple and continuous
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What tense is in the paragraph about identity? - simple present
	Why? - It’s about states or repeated actions.
What tense is mostly in the paragraph about decoration? - present continuous
	Why? - It’s about actions in progress “now” (in the picture) or “these days”.
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action/dynamic verbs: describe things that take some time to do
non-action/stative verbs: describes conditions that are just true (without taking any time)
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Many verbs can have both action and non-action meanings:
I’m having coffee right now. - action
She’s having a baby - action
I have two pets right now. - non-action
I’m thinking about coffee. - action
I think coffee is delicious. - non-action
I’m seeing somebody. - action (I’m dating someone.)
I see somebody. non-action (I visually perceive someone.)

p. 11 part 6 lists some non-action verbs. Which ones can also be actions?
“love” can be an action informally, as a superlative form of “enjoy”
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see - visual perception (no attention or focus)
look - focus on the appearance (which doesn’t change)
watch - focus on (possible) actions
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I’m coming from the United States. = I’m moving or travelling.
I come from the United States. = The US is my origin. (For people, it’s more common to just use “be”.)
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Grammar: Question Forms
How do we make questions in simple and continuous present?
Simple:
y/n	Do I have a pet? Does he have a pet?
	Yes, I do. / No, I don’t. Yes, he does. / No, he doesn’t.
Info-	What do you do? What does he do?
	(subject question: Who lives here? What happens in this class?)
Continuous:
y/n	Are you eating? Am I being clear? Is she studying?
Info- 	What are you eating? Where am I teaching? Why is she studying English?
	(subject questions: What is happening? Who is calling? How many people are coming?)
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p. 13 “Quiz” in the top right. - Complete the questions with the correct words. One of them is “can”.
1 do (The verb is “come”, the subject is “the Tuareg -- or “blue people””
2 Who
3 is
4 is
1 does (The verb is “celebrate”, the subject is “the...festival”.)
2 What/Which
3 do
4 can (“do” is wrong because “Where do you [verb]” means you definitely [verb]. But most people probably haven’t seen this house.)
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In your group of 3 or 4, split into teams A and B.
A go to p. 153, B go to p. 154
Get 5 points for a correct answer the first time, or 1 point for the correct answer after hearing the choices.
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Homework: Invent a company and write a website profile like the one on p. 17. Include sections for “About us”, “Current Projects”, and “Testimonials”
	Also: read p. 27 and do parts 3, 4, 5 on p. 26