2015-07-28 Core: 3 swimming & titanic

Greg Malivuk
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(This is the Core class.)
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How much water do you drink every day?
How much other water do you use every day?
(total water)/(total population) = average water use per person
p. 33 part 2 - with your partner guess the numbers for each sentence
1 70
2 3
3 46
4 10
5 200
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What are some ways you can save water?
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p. 34 part 1 - with your partner, use the words in the box to make sentences about the pictures
A - The people are diving in the ocean. The shark is swimming.
B - The people are rafting in a river. They are paddling quickly. It is exciting and sometimes dangerous.
C - The person is swimming in a natural pool (cenote).

All of the activities in the first box can be used with “go”: go diving, go fishing, go sailing, go windsurfing
(especially if you do it for fun or for exercise)
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part 4 - listen to people describe two of the pictures and decide if the statements are true or false
part 5 - what do you think happened next? (then listen and check)
capsize = when a boat turns upside-down
labyrinth = a confusing maze (especially one that you can walk around inside)
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p. 35 part 8
What were they doing when they saw the hippo? = What were they doing first?
What did they do when they saw the hippo? = What did they do after (as a reaction)?

She was cooking dinner when I got home. = She was in the middle of cooking at that moment.
She cooked dinner when I got home. = The whole action happened after I got home.
(She had cooked dinner when I got home. = The whole action happened before I got home.)
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Remember that stative verbs are not used in any continuous tenses. (love, want, believe, etc.)
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p. 35 part 10 - complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs and when/while/because/so
1 I was taking a photo of the hippo when I dropped my camera in the water.
2 My friend fell out of the raft because he wasn’t holding on.
3 I saw some strange fish while I was diving.
4 I was having (= experiencing) some problems with my mask so my brother helped me.
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part 11 - complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs (simple or continuous)
1 was working
2 heard
3 began
4 bought
5 went
6 swam (the action of swimming past the boat finished quickly)
7 was moving
8 caught up
9 got
10 spent
11 felt
(Remember: continuous tenses focus on the “middle” of an action that has duration. If nothing interrupts the action, we probably don’t use continuous.)
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BREAK
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Think of the first time you tried a new activity or learned a new skill.
Your partners will take turns asking you yes/no questions about the time you tried the activity.
The person who guesses correctly chooses the next activity.
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What do you know about the Titanic?
p. 36 part 1 - which paragraph of the reading answers these questions?
a 2
b 1
c x
d 3
e x
dignity = honor, respect
part 2 - with your partner read the article again and answer these questions
1 finding two US nuclear submarines that had disappeared in the 1960s
2 joyful, then sad and solemn (because a lot of people had died there)
3 disappointed because he hadn’t wanted those things to happen
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They were looking for submarines that had disappeared in the 1960s.
They felt solemn because many people had died there.
He was disappointed because he hadn’t wanted that to happen.

Past Perfect = “past of the past” - to show that one thing happened before another thing in the past
every perfect tense = [have] + past participle
past perfect = had + past participle

It was seen. = simple past passive
It had been seen. = past perfect passive
(passive = [be] + past participle)

We can use “already”, “yet”, “just”, “for”, and “since” the same way in the past perfect as we can in the present perfect.
She had already cooked dinner when I got home.
She hadn’t yet cooked dinner when I got home.
She had just cooked dinner when I got home.

The Titanic had been at the bottom of the ocean since 1912.
When Ballard discovered it, the Titanic had been at the bottom of the ocean for 73 years.
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p. 37 part 7 - choose the correct form for each verb
1 had been
2 sank
3 was
4 had disappeared
5 hadn’t located
6 had visited
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Homework: p. 38 parts 2, 3, 4, 5 (about the reading on p. 39)