2015-01-07 Evening: more college sports

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 92-94, A, B, C (reading and questions)
part A: 2 is the main idea
part B
1 b
2 c
3 c (b isn't a bad answer, either)
4 a
5 c
6 a
7 a
8 b "listed athletics toward the bottom" = they weren't very concerned about it
part C
1 not "beliefs"
2 not "mingle"
3 not "seek"
4 not "objective"
5 not "made some serious mistakes"
("bearing" originally meant the direction that someone was going, especially on a boat or ship)
6 not "unfair"
7 not "delight"
8 not "problem"
9 not "curb"
10 not "recipients"
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p. 88
part A: 3 is the main idea (he talks about 1 and 2, but those aren't the main focus of his commentary)
part B
1 T
2 T
3 F - he has a lot of experience with college sports; "the broadest perspective"
4 F - It irritates him that people think this way (which means he does not think this way).
5 T
6 ? - "Artists are not supposed to be competitive." (but maybe they often are)
7 T
8 T
9 T
10 T
11 F - "competition nourishes" us
12 F - asks why the football player can't major in football
13 T
14 F
rhetorical question: a question asked in a speech or essay or another situation where no answer is expected from the audience (maybe I want you to think about the question, but I already have an answer or explanation in my mind)

a
sign
weighs
Instead
invariably
more
likes
Isn't it
athletic
accorded
respect
beyond
best
March Madness
broadest
mightily
distant
apart
surffered in
on
supposed
expected
art's
sport's
has suffered
we
whether
artists
wind
can
grace
pretty
Or
bit
world
defined
its own
Its
seem
ersatz
shoe-
colleges as
various deceits
affected
our
to
manner
Certainly
can
can't
faith
for fair
bet
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Next Classes:
Monday, January 12
Wednesday, January 14
* Tuesday, January 20
Wednesday, January 21
Monday, January 26
(end of the current 6-week session)
Tuesday, January 27
Thursday, January 29
(now always Tuesdays and Thursdays)
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Homework: p. 98-100 (part A, Grammar - passive voice)