2015-12-17 Core: 11 future technology and antarctica

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: read p. 135 and do p. 134 parts 3 and 4 (also make a list of words you couldn’t understand)
vice versa = the other way around
(He says it’s important to end up in control of the technology, not let it end up in control of us.)
part 3
1 b
2 a (“In particular, Wesch and his students look at social networking”)
3 b
4 a
part 4
1 can change
2 might not have
3 have not started
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http://www.eslcafe.com/ - good resource for students and teachers of English as a foreign language
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“time” has a few different meanings and uses

- clock time: What time is it? It’s time to go home. It’s time for bed.
- occasion: How many times have you seen it? the last time, millions of times
- a period of time: I had a good time. It’s the tragedy of our time.
- the thing measured by hours, minutes, and seconds: How much time do you have? I don’t have a lot of free time. (“How long?” is about this type of “time”)
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p. 134 part 8 - match the parts of the conversations, then answer 1 and decide if you think 2 is true
1 e - period of time
2 d - the thing measured by hours
3 a - the thing measured by hours
4 c - clock time
5 b - the thing measured by hours

All books will be digital.
stronger meaning: Every copy of every book will be digital. We won’t see printed books any more.
(slightly less strong: Every copy of new books will be digital. We won’t be able to get new books on paper any more.)
weaker meaning: Every book will have an available digital version. We won’t need to use printed books any more, but they will continue to exist.
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Are there other technologies (like paper books and vinyl records) that you think will mostly disappear in the future (or become niche products that only a few “strange” people want to buy).
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p. 138 - Why are they doing this? What problems do you think the women experienced?
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BREAK
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Do parts 4 and 5 on p. 139
part 5
1 T
2 T
3 F - Ann believes there is you still to explore.
4 F - Winds were a serious problem, with very low temperatures and speeds up to 100mph.
5 F - They used their food to heat their fingers.
6 F - They used an online journal (and satellite connections, probably)
7 T
8 T
Ann: I think the thing that’s fabulous about opening the story up to others is, it comes back. And it’s not just remarking on what we’re doing. What we ended up getting were other people’s dreams.
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part 6 - complete the sentences the way they do in the video (and check the answers to 3 and 7 above)
1 e
2 d
3 b
4 a
5 f
6 c
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Look at the glossary (the list of words) for a couple minutes. Are there words you still don’t understand?
part 9 - discuss these questions in your group
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p. 133 part 13 - contrastive stress = stress on a word or words in a sentence to emphasize contrast
If only one word is stressed, there’s probably contrast with what someone else did or said.
i ordered TWO cheeseburgers = I asked for 2, not another number.
i ordered two CHEESEburgers = I asked for burgers with cheese, not regular hamburgers.

We can also contrast two things in one sentence:
MARY cooked the DESSERT, and JOHN cooked the MEAL

he teaches english as a foreign language (normal pronunciation stresses “English”, “foreign” and “language”)
he teaches english as a FOREIGN language = he teaches it to students with other languages, he does not teach literature or writing to native speakers in a regular school
he TEACHES english as a foreign language = he is a teacher, not a student
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Pronouncing pauses (commas):
Let’s eat, Grandpa! = I’m inviting my grandfather to eat.
Let’s eat Grandpa! = I’m suggesting that we eat my grandfather.
(In this sentence, “Grandpa” is capitalized because it functions as his name.)

She enjoys cooking her pets and her family. (no pauses, rising intonation only on “her pets”)
She enjoys cooking, her pets, and her family. (pauses between, and “cooking” and “her pets” have rising intonation)
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Homework: Make a list of questions humans and extraterrestrials (space aliens) might have during first contact, and make a list of possible misunderstandings and communication problems they might have.
(Tomorrow in class, you will prepare and then perform a conversation between aliens and humans at first contact.)