2016-01-20 Core: 3 water activities

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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p. 33 - What are the people in the picture doing?
How much water do you think you use every day?
part 2 - with a partner, guess which numbers complete each statement about water
1 70
2 3 (1.3% of fresh water is liquid and on the surface, another 30.1% is in the ground, the rest is ice)
3 46 (running water is the water that comes out of the sink when you turn the handle)
4 10
5 200

cloze - language teaching jargon for completing sentences with missing words or information

fractions go with “of a(n)” and a singular noun: two-thirds of a liter, half an hour
(half, third, quarter/fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, etc.)

developing world = third world (developing countries = third-world countries)
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What are some things you could do to use less water?

gray water = water that has been used to wash something, but which isn’t totally dirty (“gray” because this is sometimes the color of soapy water)
Gray water can be reused to water your plants or flush your toilets.

desalination / desalinization = making salt water into fresh water
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p. 34 part 1 - Describe what’s happening in these three pictures using words from the boxes.
A They are diving in the ocean with a whale shark.
B They are rafting in a river.
C He is swimming in a cenote. (a natural pool in a cave)

Make sure you understand the other words in part 1.
All of these activities can be with “go”: go swimming, go kayaking, go windsurfing, etc.
marina = boat “parking lot”
stream = small, fast-flowing river
canal = artificial river for transportation
reservoir = a natural or artificial lake used for water
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gulf, bay, harbor = partially enclosed areas of an ocean
strait = narrow “river” connecting two larger bodies of water
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part 4 - listen to people talking about two of the pictures. Are these statements true or false?
1 T
2 F - They were leaving the rapids and approaching calm water.
3 T
4 T
5 F - He went diving in an easy cenote while his parents were exploring more dangerous ones.
6 F - He was concentrating on what he was doing.
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Hippos are very territorial. = They have a specific area that they will defend, sometimes violently.
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BREAK
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p. 34 part 5 - what do you think happened next in each story? Listen and check.
1 b
2 c
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p. 35 part 6 - what tenses are used in the sentences?
past continuous: was/were + verb(ing)
simple past: verb(ed) or did + base form

(“missing” in number 4 is an adjective, not past continuous)

I was walking when I saw my teacher. - continuous gives “background” action that was already in progress when another thing happened
I saw my teacher when/while I was walking.
While/When I was walking, I saw my teacher.
When I saw my teacher, I was walking.
(All 4 sentences have the same timeline or sequence of events.)

I saw my teacher during my walk. (“during” is a preposition: during + noun phrase)
I was listening to music during my walk.
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My roommate cooked dinner when I got home. = He started just after (and because) I got home.
My roommate was cooking dinner when I got home. = I got home in the middle of cooking.
My roommate had cooked dinner when I got hom. = He started and finished before I got home.
I ate at 7:00. = I started dinner at 7:00.
I was eating at 7:00. = I started dinner before 7 and was in the middle of it at 7.
I had eaten at/by 7:00. = I had already started and finished dinner before/by 7.
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He almost got lost in the cenote because he was not paying attention to his location.
He was not paying attention to his location, so he almost got lost.
(“because” and “so” show that the actions are causally connected, “when” and “while” only show that they happened together)
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p. 35 part 10 - Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs and “when”, “while”, “because”, or “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 when/while I was diving.
4 I had / was having some problems with my mask, so my brother helped / was helping me.
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feel / felt
fall / fell
fill / filled (adjective: full)
fool / fooled

Luke looked at the sheep ship full of fools.
You ship cheap sheep on a cheap sheep ship.

peat/---/pate/pit/pet/pat/pot - these all sound different in English
beat/bite/bait/bit/bet/bat/bot
boot/put/boat/but/bought/bout - the vowels are all different
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p. 34 wordbuilding - adverbs
most adverbs = adjective + -ly: quietly, slowly, suddenly, strangely, unforgettably, unfortunately
	(Remember: some adjectives end in -ly and have no corresponding adverb: friendly, motherly, lovely, etc.)
some adverbs = adjective: early, daily, monthly, fast, hard, late
the rest only have adverb forms: always, never, sometimes, very, yet, already, often
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Homework: p. 35 part 11 and p. 159 practice 1