2016-01-07 Core: 1 occupations and idioms

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: read p. 15 and do 2, 3, 4, 5 on p. 14
Go over other words Ss didn’t understand.
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p. 14 part 6 - which summary best explains the conclusion of the article?
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part 7 - do you understand all these words?
contestant: a player in a game who might win or lose
competitor: one of many that are trying to get the same thing
(interspecies competition = competition between one species and another
intraspecies competition = competition with other members of the same species)

My colleagues include all ESL teachers (or at least all ESL teachers at private language schools), my coworkers are only the people who work here at this school.

A coach helps with an athletic skill, a mentor might help with anything, and people often talk about mentors at work, who are more experienced workers that can help them learn how to do the job better.

An opponent is someone who works against you (who opposes you), especially in a game or contest.

Which of these roles do you currently have? Are you someone's opponent? Mentor?

If you want to know the origin and the history and the changes of a particular word or expression, you can research it.
If you want to know just what it means today, you can look it up in a dictionary.
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Notice the endings on many of these words: -ist, -er/-or, -ent/-ant, (also -an: musician, mathematician) (also -ee: employee, trainee)
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Color Idioms handout p. 143 part B - complete the sentences with the correct idioms from the box
2 paint the town red
3 in the black
4 green with envy
5 the pot calling the kettle black
6 a bolt from the blue
7 in the pink
8 out of the blue
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BREAK
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555 = “hahaha” in Thai
English: haha/hehe
Spanish: jaja/jiji/jeje
Portuguese (and Korean): kkkkk
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handout p. 145 part A - use the idioms to write responses to the sentences
1 He’s always looking (at the world) through rose-colored glasses.
  He always looked at the world through rose-colored glasses.
  He always saw things through rose-colored glasses.
2 I’d like to paint the town red. (“I would like” is maybe too calm and formal for painting the town red)
  Let’s paint the town red.
  Let’s celebrate by painting the town red.
3 Yes, it was out of the blue. / it came out of the blue. / it happened out of the blue.
  Yes, it was a bolt from the blue.
4 I recommend that you have everything in black and white.
  You have to make sure to get everything in black and white.
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“Now write” - discuss these topics with your group
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“Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”
Someone who sees the world through rose-colored glasses doesn’t prepare for the worst, because they don’t believe the worst can happen.

The optimist says the glass is half full.
The pessimist says the glass is half empty.
The rose-colored glasses person says the glass is totally full (or believes that someone will always be there to refill the glass).
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http://www.wordandphrase.info/analyzeText.asp - to see words and expressions used in sentences
1 type the phrase in the box on the left and click “phrase” below the box, then click “search”
2 click on each word of the phrase in the box on the right (so you can read it under that box), click “search”
3 in the bottom-right, you can now see many examples of the phrase in sentences
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Homework: p. 156-157 practice 1 and 2