2017-04-08 Saturday: 7 Living space

Greg Malivuk
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“2017-04-08 Saturday: 7 Living space”
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Homework: 5-6 test - If you are in my class next week, I will collect them. If you’re in another class but you want me to grade it, find me and give me the test.
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p. 81 - With your group, discuss your experiences with the living situations in part 2, and answer the questions in part 3.
Do you prefer to live with roommates or with family? Why?
Family:
- Everything stays clean.
- Less responsibilities.
- It’s cheaper or free.
- Family is sometimes gone on business trips.
- The fridge is always full.
- It feels safe.
Roommates:
- You can do what you want.
- You can talk about gossip.
- You gan get home at any time without problems.
- You can sleep as much as you want.
- You have to be responsible.
- You can cook fancy food.
- You can try different food.
- You can drink.
- It’s more fun than living with parents. (Some people say “funner” is incorrect.)
What are some advantages of living alone?
- Free to do anything you want.
- You learn to be more responsible.
- You have privacy.
- Your boyfriends and/or girlfriends can come over.
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messy / neat
dirty / clean
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p. 82 part 1 - With your partner, decide which of these features are important to you in a home and which are not important. What other things are important for you? (Use a dictionary if you don’t understand a word. http://learnersdictionary.com/ is a good one for American English.)
What’s the difference between a yard and a garden?
What’s the difference between a balcony, a terrace, and a porch?
What other things are important for you, which aren’t on this list?
rec room = recreation room (like a playroom, but not just for kids)
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Look at the pictures on p. 82. What would be the advantages of living in these kinds of homes?
A ger is more often called a yurt in English.
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p. 83 part 4 - Listen to the woman talk about homes and shelters. Complete the sentences with the correct information.
1 bad weather
2 more basic
3 shelter
4 brick or stone
5 house
6 your house
7 design
8 cities
A shelter is to protect you from the elements.
“the elements” = climate and weather
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Grammar: comparatives and superlatives
p. 83 part 5
1 getting smaller and smaller
2 The colder the climate, the warmer your house needs to be.
3 better, the best
“The more, the merrier.” = Something will be more fun with more people.
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Comparatives: between two things or collections of things
short adjectives and adverbs - big/bigger, short/shorter, happy/happier
long adjectives and adverbs - expensive/more expensive, interesting/more interesting
	(We can also use “less” for these adjectives.)
“not as...as” gives the same meaning as “less”, and is most common with short adjectives:
	I’m not as tall as my dad. Boston is not as big as New York. Boston is also not as expensive as NYC.
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Superlatives: among more than two things
short adjectives and adverbs - big/biggest, short/shortest, happy/happiest
long adjectives and adverbs - expensive/most expensive, interesting/most interesting
	(We can also use “least” for these adjectives.)
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part 7 - Rewrite the sentences using the words in parentheses. Begin each sentence with the bold words.
1 Houses are less appropriate for local conditions.
2 A cave house isn’t 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 more easily in floods.
8 You can put up a ger more quickly than a brick house.
(Adjectives that end with -ly can have -lier comparatives, but not adverbs. So “friendlier” exists, but not “quicklier”.)
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BREAK
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Irregular forms:
good/better/best
well/better/best
bad/worse/worst
much/more/most
many/more/most
little/less/least
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How can we compare Boston and New York City (NYC)?
Boston is cleaner than NYC. / Boston is not as dirty as NYC.
Boston is cheaper than NYC. / Boston is not as expensive as NYC.
NYC is busier than Boston. / Boston is not as busy as NYC.
Boston is not as crowded as NYC.
NYC is more beautiful than Boston.
NYC is more famous than Boston.
NYC is more modern than Boston.
NYC is bigger than Boston.
Boston is more historical than NYC.
I love NYC more than Boston. / I don’t love Boston as much as (I love) NYC.
NYC has more people than Boston. / Boston does not have as many people as NYC.
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p. 84 part 2 - Complete the sentences with words from the box. Which are true about NYC? Which are true about Boston?
1 atmosphere
2 public transportation
3 financial
4 modern
5 built-up
6 skyscrapers
7 residents
8 neighborhoods
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How could we describe the area of New York before the city was there?
What grammar do we use to describe something that was true in the past but isn’t any more?
Grammar: used to
I used to live in Italy. = I lived in Italy for a while in the past, but not today.
(I’m used to living in Italy. = I live in Italy now, and I am accustomed to it.)
I didn’t use to work. I didn’t use to know any English.
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“Used To” worksheet - With your partner, think of a sentence or two to describe what people used to do before these things were invented.
1 People used to read more books. People used to listen to the radio.
2 People used to use candles. People used to go to bed earlier.
3 People used to wake up with the rooster or the sun.
4 People used to paint. People used to draw more.
5 People used to look at the stars with their own eyes. People didn’t use to be interested in other planets.
6 People used to use bows and axes to kill each other.
7 People used to draw. People used to use body language. People used to tell stories.
8 People used to hunt and gather their food.
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“used to” means something was true in the past, for some time, and is the opposite now
My grandparents used to live in New York. = They lived there for a while, but now they don’t live there.
My grandparents didn’t use to live in New York. = They didn’t live there in the past, but now they do.
I used to visit Florida for vacation. = This was a typical vacation every year for a while.
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We can also use “would” for past repeated actions.
Every Saturday I would get up early to watch cartoons.
*I would have long hair in college. (WRONG to use “would” because this isn’t a repeated action)
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p. 85 part 11 - Complete the sentences so they are true for you. Use simple past, “used to”, or “would”.
1 I used to be a dental assistant.
2 I used to walk to school.
3 Before I moved here, my family and I used to have dinner together.
4 I went to Bangkok. (Simple past, because this vacation happened once.)
5 I would copy my friend’s test.
6 In my family, on weekends we we would have pizza for dinner.
7 I cried. (Simple past, because this is about one time.)
8 As a child, I would never finish my homework.
reminisce = remember and talk about the past with some nostalgia
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(Diagram with circles - http://i.imgur.com/U0LNKvv.png)
1 I cried when I left home for the first time. (Happened once, so NO “used to” or “would”.)
2 I used to have long hair. (True for a while, but not a repeated action, so NO “would”.)
3 I used to walk to school every day. / I would walk to school every day.
4 When I was in elementary school, I would play hide and seek every day. (This sentence is okay even if I still play hide and seek now, but if I do, we can’t say “used to”.)
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Homework: read p. 87 and do parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 on p. 86
	Write a paragraph about a typical day when you were a child, using “used to” and “would”.