2016-08-05 Core: 7 childhoods and Krakatoa

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 166 practice 2
1 in case (I have a jacket, because it might get cold.)
2 Contrary (“compared to” would probably include comparatives)
3 Given that (not going abroad is a logical consequence of trying to save money)
4 regardless of (it’s a contrast for a surprising consequence)
5 provided that (= “if”)
6 since (= “because”)
7 in case (Let’s take cash, because maybe the store doesn’t accept credit cards.)
8 in view of (if 2pm is late in your opinion) / in spite of (if 2pm is early in your opinion)
9 insofar as (= “as far as”)
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next next week -> the week after next
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Q: What did you talk about?
A: I can’t tell. (= I’m not allowed to say.)

Q: What is he wearing?
A: I can’t tell. (= I can’t be sure. / I can’t discern it. / I can’t see it clearly. / I can’t make it out.)
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Much of the time, “insofar as” means the same as “as far as”.
	Insofar as we can tell = As far as we can tell
Sometimes “insofar as” can mean “in the sense that” or “in other words”.
	They gave him a feeling of independence insofar as he didn't have to rely on anyone.
	= They gave him a feeling of independence in the sense that he didn’t have to rely on anyone.
	(= They gave him a feeling of independence. In other words, he didn’t have to rely on anyone.)

She’s independent from her parents insofar as she no longer has to ask permission to do things, but not in the sense that she can financially support herself.
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p. 85 part 11 - Discuss these questions with your partner about your own childhood, as well as how you think your parents and grandparents might have answered the same questions.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-generations.html - An article that includes a map of how far children could walk on their own in different generations of one family.
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parentification = the process of (a child) becoming “parent-like”, because one or both legal guardians can’t take care of the child’s other siblings
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https://www.gapminder.org/world/ - Compare many different statistics for different countries throughout history. (For example, you can compare child mortality and GDP/person for every year since 1800.)
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BREAK
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p. 89 - Krakatoa - Do you know what this word refers to?
What are some other volcanic islands?
Read the article about the 1883 eruption.

climatOLogists / climatOLogy - the stress is on the “ol” of “ologist” and “ology” words
	- They study the climate, which is not the same as weather.
(Meteorologists study the weather.)
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part 3a - What order does the writer put these events? - c, b, a (but there isn’t much for b)
aftermath = What happens in the time after some major (negative) event.

part 3b - What expression from the article has a similar meaning to these, but is about the past?
1 until then
2 in the preceding months
3 the following year
4 in those days
part 3c - Complete these sentences with the correct time expressions (using the words in parentheses).
1 some/a few days earlier
2 the following day
3 at that time
4 the previous day
5 from then on
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“Unusual global weather patterns seem to have continued in the years following the eruption.”
seem - because the evidence exists now
to have continued - because “continue” happened before “seem”

He appeared to be fighting. = It looked like he was fighting (at that time).
He appeared to have been fighting. = It looked like he had been fighting (before that time).
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Scattergories
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Extra practice with linking words and subordinate clauses: http://www.ngllife.com/sites/default/files/Adv_Unit7_ExtraPractice.pdf - parts 2 and 5
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Homework: Finish preparing your presentation for Monday’s Freedom Trail activity