2017-12-02 Saturday: 11 Connections

Greg Malivuk
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“2017-12-02 Saturday: 11 Connections”
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Homework: 9-10 test
I will see you next on December 2.
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p. 129 - Why are there quotation marks around “discovered” in the caption?
- The people who speak this language already knew about it, but maybe this was the first time linguists learned about it.
(Chrisopher Columbus “discovered” America.)
- Where in the world might “undiscovered” languages exist?
- Are there any advantages to speaking a language almost no one else knows?
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part 2 - With your partner, complete these sentences with true information about your own news habits.
1 I get the headlines on my cell phone, so I know the most important news.
  …, so I can choose the news that interests me.
2 I don’t read the paper. It’s too hard to get one. It’s too boring. It’s too old-fashioned.
3 I don’t believe everything I read because sometimes there is fake news.
4 I turn straight to the sports pages even though I always watch the results on TV.
  ...even though I don’t like sports.
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p. 132 part 1 - Use the words from the box to complete the questions, and then ask and answer the questions with your partner.
1 Twitter
2 texting
3 Flickr/Twitter
4 broadband
5 Skype
6 blog/tweet/ebook
WiFi is the wireless connection between your device and a nearby router.
Broadband is a high-speed connection to the Internet.
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part 3 - What do you expect these stories to be about?
UFO = Unidentified Flying Object (usually people associate them with aliens)
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Tweet your way around the world
- Tweet while you go around the world
- Tweet in order to go around the world
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part 4 - Listen to the conversations and decide which headline each one is about.
conversation 1 - headline 5
conversation 2 - headline 3
conversation 3 - headline 1
conversation 4 - headline 2
part 5 - Listen again and choose the correct option.
1 The journalist asks her Twitter followers to suggest things to do.
2 The blog reminds readers not to use telescopes.
3 The company told people not to show up for work.
4 The politician has invited aliens to meet him.
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Grammar: reporting verbs + infinitive
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reported speech = reporting the information someone gave without using their exact words
(direct/quoted speech = repeating the exact words someone said)
quoted: The politician said, “Aliens, please come visit me.”
reported: The politician invited aliens to visit him.
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If I want you to do something or I’m offering or promising to do something myself, we can use infinitives:
ask/tell/remind/invite + [someone] + infinitive
	I asked her to come to the party.
	I told her to come to the party.
	I reminded her to come to the party.
	I invited her to come to the party.
offer/promise + infinitive
	I offered to cook for the party.
	I promised to cook for the party.
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I offered you money.
I offered to pay you.
I promised you money.
I promised to pay you.
I promised that I would pay you.
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part 11 - With your partner, rewrite these sentences to use one of the reporting verbs and an infinitive.
1 Marta reminded Amy to turn off her cell phone.
2 Jose asked Marta to set up his email.
3 Amy invited Jose to (come and) watch the movie on their new flat screen TV.
4 Marta told Amy to plug in the battery charger first.
5 Jose offered to upload those photos to the computer for Marta.
6 Amy promised to turn it off when she was done.
  (Amy promised Jose that she would turn it off when she was done.)
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part 14 - Tell your partners about a time when one of these things happened, using today’s grammar.
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BREAK
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p. 130 - Read the article about the last “uncontacted” tribe.
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dog (this has the same vowel (for me) as “caught”, “bought”, “saw”)
dug
duck
dock (this has the same vowel as “cot” and “bot”)
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part 2 - What role did each of these organizations play?
1 Funai released photos of an “uncontacted” tribe.
2 Survival International said the photos were genuine.
3 The government of Peru agreed to work with Brazilian authorities.
4 The BBC made a documentary about the tribe.
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footage = video
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Funai said that the tribe was under threat because of the logging.
-> Funai said, “The tribe is under threat because of the logging.”
	(Being under threat and Funai saying this happened at the same time, so direct speech is present.)
At the time, some people asked if the tribe was truly uncontacted.
-> Some people asked, “Is the tribe truly uncontacted?”
The NGO Survival International said that they were confident that the photos were genuine.
-> Survival International said, “We are confident that the photos are genuine.”
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Changes from quoted to reported speech (if the quote is from the past):
verbs -
	present -> past
	past & present perfect -> past perfect
	“will” -> “would” (can -> could, may -> might)
pronouns - change depending on who they refer to
“pointing” words - change depending on when/where they refer to
	here -> there
	today -> that day
	tomorrow -> the next day
	yesterday -> the previous day
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When reporting statements (affirmative or negative), use “that” (optional).
When reporting yes/no questions, use “if” or “whether”.
	She asked, “Will he get home soon?”
	-> She asked if/whether he would get home soon.
When reporting information questions, use the same question word.
	She asked, “When will he get home?”
	-> She asked when he would get home.
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“Who can I talk to?”
-> Do you know who I can talk to?
	(The question is “do you know”, and “who I can talk to” is just a noun clause that refers to the information I want.)
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p. 131 part 8 - Decide who (a-d) probably said these things, and then write sentences with reported speech.
1 A Funai spokesperson said (that) they had taken the photos to show that those people existed.
2 An anonymous poster asked how many tribes like this there were.
3 A language expert said (that) the term “uncontacted” was more of a media word than a scientific term.
4 A Peruvian government official asked if/whether unseen tribes existed.
5 A Peruvian government official said (that) there was no evidence (that) they existed.
6 A Funai spokesperson said that if they didn’t save these tribes, this would happen to all of us.
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An anonymous poster asked, “Will the tribe survive if we don’t do anything?”
-> An anonymous poster asked whether the tribe would survive if we didn’t do anything.
If you need to ask whether you have enough money, you probably don’t have enough money.
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He said yes.
She said that he had said yes.
He said that she had said that he had said yes.
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In your group, write a conversation between humans and aliens meeting for the first time. What kinds of questions would they ask each other? What communication difficulties might they have? (Assume that the humans and the aliens all speak English for the purpose of this activity.)
Write it in direct speech:
Alien 1: Where do you live?
Human 1: I live in a house in Boston. Where do you live?
Alien 2: We live in a tree on Mars.
Human 2: What kind of tree do you live in?
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Homework: read the article on p. 147 and do p. 146 parts 4 and 5
    Also: write or imagine the rest of your human/alien conversation and write about the whole thing in reported speech

“One alien asked one human where she lived. The human said she lived in a house in Boston and asked the aliens where they lived. The other alien told the human that they lived in a tree on Mars. The other human asked what kind of tree they lived in. …”