2016-04-13 Core: 3 Titanic and puzzles

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Reminder: There is NO CLASS NEXT MONDAY, April 18.
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Homework: p. 35 part 11 and p. 159 practice 1
part 11
1 was working
2 heard
3 began
4 bought
5 went
6 swam (“immediately” means it happened and finished; “swam past” is a short action and nothing else happened during the action)
7 was moving (we caught up to it while it was moving quickly)
  moved (it was a fast shark, so it always moved quickly - This describes the shark, it doesn’t describe the events of that day.)
8 caught up
9 got
10 spent
11 felt
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p. 159 practice 1
1 happened, fell
2 was swimming, appeared
3 was jogging, lost
4 wasn’t raining, didn’t take
5 was, slept / was sleeping
6 arrived, was shining
7 were surfing, saw
8 was, saw
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Long action: the action always takes a long time, so there isn’t really a difference between simple and continuous
I live in Boston = I am living in Boston.

Short action: the action always takes a short time, so nothing much can happen in the middle of the action, and we usually don’t use continuous
She arrived at 10. (probably NOT: She was arriving at 10.)

Medium action: we can think of the action as long or short, so simple and continuous are both common and have a different meaning:
I ate at 7. = I started eating at 7.
I was eating at 7. = I was in the middle of eating at 7.
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p. 37 part 4 - Put the events in the correct order. Notice the tenses used in the article for each event.
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Grammar: past perfect = had + past participle
We use it to say that something happened before the main action of a “story”.

I was born in 1986. My mother had decided to have a baby when she was 25.
When I was born, my parents had already been married for six and a half years.
I had already lived in Boston for 5 years when I started working at BAE.
I had already eaten dinner at 7:00.
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part 7
1 had been
2 sank
3 was
4 had disappeared
5 hadn’t located
6 visited / had visited

By the time they got to the hospital, the patient was already dead. (He was dead at that time and will remain dead.)
By the time they got to the hospital, the patient had already died. (This is an event which had happened before they got to the hospital.)

At the hospital, they could have said either of these things:
“He is already dead.”
“He has already died.”
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If we use a perfect tense with a condition (like being dead), it’s usually to say how long it has continued:
By the time they got to the hospital, the patient had already been dead for 20 minutes.
My parents were already married when I was born.
My parents had already been married for 6.5 years when I was born.
(You can think about what people would say in the present tense in these situations.)
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BREAK
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In your group, ask yes/no questions to try to figure out the explanations for the situations listed.

Lateral Thinking Puzzle - You have to think laterally or “sideways” to get the answer. You have to question all of your assumptions about the situation.

Logic Problem - Your extra assumptions aren’t really important. You know when you have the correct answer.
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p. 38 part 1 - Discuss the questions in pairs.
Read the first paragraph on p. 39. How did his experience affect him?
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Homework: read the rest of Eric Sala’s story on p. 39 and do p. 38 parts 3, 4, and 5