2015-04-09 Evening: international adoption

Greg Malivuk
[email protected]
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
---
Homework: p. 49-52 reading and questions
A: the main idea is 3
B
1 Opinion
2 Fact
3 F - It’s a claim about a fact, whether or not it’s a true fact. (Whether it’s good or bad is an opinion.)
4 O - How much counts as “little” is a matter of opinion.
5 F
6 O (at least, the image of a cafeteria is very opinionated)
7 F
8 F
9 F - it will have consequences. The question of whether they’re good or bad consequences is an opinion.
10 F
11 O
C
1 a
2 a
3 b
4 b
5 c
6 a
7 b
8 b
9 c
10 b
11 a
12 b (“influx” = “inflow”)
13 a
---
p. 45: what is the main idea of the listening?
     3 - A child can be bicultural, of two worlds.
read the questions on p. 46, then listen again and answer them
1 Los Angeles, California / Poptun, Guatemala
2 1 year (she was adopted at 12 hours)
3 indigenous weavings
4 inevitable
5 the mall and acting classes
6 They died.
7 Her mother gave her up so she could live.
8 It’s a farm equipment warehouse.
9 She weeps. (“wept” in past)
10 She’s trying to figure out who she is. (she’s “gap-filling”)
11 both
p. 47
1 adopted
2 encounter
3 flown
4 jungle
5 hours
6 residents
7 of
8 indigenous
9 winner
10 circle
11 inevitable
12 malling
13 off
14 out
15 determined
16 die
17 fielded
18 poor
19 up
20 dodging
21 into
22 farming
23 weeping
24 gaping
25 to
26 flapping
27 figure
28 out
29 struts
30 over
---
p. 57
- If everyone in your group agrees, try to think of some reasons another person might disagree, and think of reasons why that person would be wrong.

genocide - destroying an ethnic group by killing them (e.g. with smallpox blankets)
ethnocide - destroying an ethnic group by repressing or eliminating the culture itself (e.g. by putting them in boarding schools where they are forbidden from speaking their native language)
assimilation
------
p. 57 Grammar
1 Nothing -> seems
2 avoidance -> allows
3 effort -> is (conditions -> move)
4 construction(?) -> besmirches
  trends...and...construction -> besmirch (I wouldn’t write “besmirches” in this sentence)
p. 58 C. : [Adoptive parents and their children] is the theme of tonight’s television series on adoption.
The logic here is that when [be] is the main verb (and it means equivalence), it should have the same form if we switch the order of the two things that are equal.
---
Homework: p. 59-60 exercises 1 and 2