2018-05-19 Saturday: 7 Living space

Greg Malivuk
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“2018-05-19 Saturday: 7 Living space”
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NO SCHOOL NEXT SATURDAY
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With your partner, design and draw a plan for a very tiny house (up to 25 m2, but no bigger).
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Vocabulary: house features
p. 82 part 1 - With your partner, decide which of these things is necessary for your house or apartment, which are nice to have but not necessary, and which you don’t care about. Then add one or two more things that you think are necessary.
(Use a dictionary for words you don’t know. http://www.learnersdictionary.com is a good one for English language learners.)
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part 2 - What are some advantages and disadvantages of these types of house?
Which one would you most like to live in?
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p. 83 part 4 - Listen to the woman talk about houses and shelters, and complete the sentences.
(Ignore the numbers - they are for part 3 which we are not doing.)
1 bad weather
2 more basic
3 shelter
4 brick or stone (The more common English word for “ger” is “yurt”.)
5 house
6 your house
7 design
8 cities
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“the elements” = the weather, in expressions like “protection from the elements”
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Grammar: Comparatives and Superlatives
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comparatives: compare two things (or groups of things)
Short adjectives (and one-syllable adverbs): +er
	cheap -> cheaper
	big -> bigger
	nice -> nicer
	pretty -> prettier
Long adjectives (and most adverbs): more / less
	expensive -> more expensive / less expensive
Irregular words
	good / well -> better
	bad / badly -> worse
	far -> farther
equatives: to say two things are (or aren’t) the same
All adjectives/adverbs: as...as
	I am not as tall as my father. = My father is taller.
		(“not as” = “less”)
	I speak English just as well as my sister.
superlatives: to talk about three or more things
If the comparative is +er, the superlative is +est
	biggest, cheapest, nicest, prettiest
If the comparative is with more/less, the superlative is with most/least
	most expensive, least interesting
Irregulars:
	good - better - best
	bad - worse - worst
	far - farther - farthest
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http://books.google.com/ngrams - compare the frequency of words or phrases in English books
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BREAK
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We can repeat comparatives to show that something is happening over time:
	Homes in cities are getting smaller and smaller.
We can pair comparatives to show that two things happen together
	The colder the climate, the warmer your house needs to be.
	The more, the merrier.
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p. 83 part 7 - Rewrite the sentences so they begin with the words in bold, and use the words in parentheses.
1 Houses are less appropriate for local conditions.
2 A cave house is not as small as you think.
3 An igloo is not as cold inside as you might think.
4 New houses are getting more and more expensive every year.
5 My tent is the best in camp.
6 This house is the oldest.
7 A house on stilts survives floods more easily.
8 You can put up a ger more quickly than a brick house.
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p. 84 part 2 - Use the words from the box to complete the sentences about NYC. If you don’t know a word, use a dictionary.
1 atmosphere
2 public transportation
3 financial
4 modern
5 built-up (This means there are lots of buildings everywhere.)
6 skyscrapers
7 residents
8 neighborhoods
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Read “Before New York”
https://welikia.org/explore/mannahatta-map/ - This is the computer map they talk about in the article.
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Grammar: three ways to talk about the past
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simple past: A beaver showed up one morning in 2007. (this happened once)
used to: Beavers used to be common in the area. (this was true for a while, but not now)
would: Beavers, bears, and turkeys would roam freely. (this was a repeated past action)
	(“They used to roam freely” is also correct, because that was true for a while but not any more.)
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My grandparents didn’t use to live near me. -> Now they live near me.
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p. 85 part 11 - Complete these sentences so they’re true for you, and then talk about them with your partners. (Also, review your classmates’ names.)
1 Before I studied here, I worked at a mining company.
2 When I was in elementary school, I used to practice swimming.
3 Before I moved here, I lived in Colombia.
4 On the first vacation I can remember, I visited every cathedral.
5 Whenever I had a test in school, I would study every night.
6 In my family, on weekends, we would go to our farm.
7 The first time I left home, I got lost.
8 As a child, I used to play a lot.
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“like” vs “as”
I cried as a baby. = When I was a baby, I cried.
I cried like a baby. = (More recently) I cried similarly to how babies cry.
p. 89 part 6 - Complete the sentences with “like” or “as”
1 As (I am a life-long resident of my town.)
2 like
3 as
4 like
5 Like (The one in my town is similar to all good cafes.)
6 like
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My studio is small like yours. = My studio and yours are similar, because they’re small.
My studio is as small as yours. = My studio is the same size as yours.
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Homework:
	1 Write a “website” to promote the town or neighborhood you live in now.
	2 Read p. 87 and do p. 86 parts 3, 4, 5
	3 p. 98 part 4 (You do not need to read p. 99, but you do need to know this vocabulary)