2017-03-11 Saturday: 3 Water

Greg Malivuk
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“2017-03-11 Saturday: 3 Water”
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Homework: 1-2 test
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How much water do you think you use every day (on average)?
p. 33 part 2 - With your partner, guess which numbers complete each sentence. Then discuss the questions in part 3.
1 70
2 3
3 46
4 10
5 200
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p. 34 - What’s happening in the pictures?
A - People are swimming or diving with a shark in the ocean.
B - They are rafting in a river.
C - He is swimming in a cenote.
part 1 - Do you understand all of these activities and bodies of water? Where is the best place to do each activity? What other things can you do in these places?
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Note: these are all “go” activities - You go swimming, go diving, go sailing, go snorkeling, etc.
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kayaking, canoing, rowing, and rafting are all different activities
sailing is in a boat and windsurfing is on a surfboard
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p. 34 part 4 - Listen to the stories. Is each statement true or false.
1 T
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 F
part 5 - What do you think happened next? Listen and check your guesses.
1 b
2 c
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Grammar: simple past and past continuous
I was eating dinner when the phone rang. / When the phone rang, I was eating dinner.
The phone rang while I was eating dinner. / While I was eating dinner, the phone rang.
	(We can also use “when” for longer actions, but “while” is more common.)
I brought my umbrella because it was raining. / Because it was raining, I brought my umbrella.
It was raining, so I brought my umbrella. (We cannot reverse this and keep the same meaning.)
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p. 35 part 10 - Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verb and the correct conjunctions (so, while, when, because).
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 had / was having some problems with my mask, so my brother helped me.
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Grammar: simple past, past continuous, past perfect
I ate dinner at 7. I ate dinner when you got home.
	= I started dinner at that time. (First you got home, then I ate dinner.)
I was eating dinner at 7. I was eating dinner when you got home.
	= I was in the middle of dinner at that time. I started before you got home. I finished after.
I had eaten dinner at 7. I had eaten dinner when you got home.
	= I finished dinner before that time.
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p. 36 - What do you know about the Titanic? (The ship, not the movie.)
- It was supposed to be unsinkable.
- It sank on its first trip after it hit an iceberg.
- This happened in 1912.
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Read the article “Return to the Titanic”.
part 1 - Which of these questions go with each of the paragraphs in the article?
1 b
2 a
3 d
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BREAK
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With your partner, make a list of the things that happened at these times:
1912 - Titanic built, sailed, and sank; people died; shoes belonged to a child
1960s - two submarines disappeared
1985 - Ballard found the wreck; Ballard also searched for the two submarines; height of the Cold War;
Between 1985 and 2004 - a company removed objects from the site; a couple got married on the Titanic’s bow; James Cameron visited it
2004 - Ballard returned to the wreck
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When Ballard is talking about 2004, the things that happened before 2004 are in past perfect.
When he’s talking about 1985, the things that happened before 1985 are in past perfect.
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When we focus on a specific time in the past, we use past perfect to talk about things that happened before that specific time.
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p. 37 part 7 - Choose the correct option to complete each sentence.
1 had been
2 sank
3 was
4 had disappeared
5 hadn’t located
6 had visited / visited (With conjunctions like “because”, “before” and “after”, we don’t need to use past perfect because the order is clear.)
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By the time the ambulance arrived at the hospital, the patient was already dead.
- The condition (being dead) was still true when they arrived at the hospital.
By the time the ambulance arrived at the hospital, the patient had already died.
- The action (dying) happened before they arrived at the hospital.
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(Remember, there is extra practice for this grammar on p. 160 and at http://ngllife.com/teacher-resources/extra-practice-activities.)
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Work in groups. Ask the person with the answers yes/no questions to figure out an explanation for each situation on your handout.
These are called “lateral thinking puzzles”, and you can find many more online.
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p. 41 - Writing a blog post
Do you have a blog or vlog? What are some common things people blog about?
Read the blog post, “The calm after the storm”
(“The calm before the storm” is a common English expression to talk about a peaceful time before something chaotic and important happens.)
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part 2 - Answer these questions.
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part 3 - Put these events into the correct order (1-7)
1 c
2 d (This happened during Saturday’s storm.)
3 b (This happened on Sunday, after the storm.)
4 f
5 e
6 g
7 a
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part 4a - What words does the blog use instead of the words in bold in part 3?
ran = rushed down
started to shine = came out
got = jumped (quickly, with a lot of energy)
picked up = grabbed (quickly)
went = headed down (a bit more informal)
part 4b - What words are used in the blog instead of these words?
raining = pouring rain (raining very hard)
full of people = packed
looking = staring out
arrived = got there
holding = clutching
part 4c - Choose the correct words to complete the sentences
1 raced (ran very fast)
2 exhausted (very tired)
3 boiling (very hot)
4 scrambled (climbed with hands and feet, up a hill for example)
5 wandered (walked slowly and without a specific destination)
6 collapsed (fell down suddenly)
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Homework: Write a blog post about a weekend (real or imagined) when you did something interesting or exciting. Try to use some of the more “interesting” words from p. 41.
	Also: read p. 51 and do parts 2, 3, 4, 6 on page 50.