2017-06-17 Saturday: 3 Water

Greg Malivuk
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“2017-06-17 Saturday: 3 Water”
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p. 33 - With your partner, guess the answers for the sentences in part 2, then discuss the questions in part 3.
1 70
2 3
3 46
4 10
5 200
What are some ways to save water in your home?
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p. 34 - What are the people doing in these pictures, and where?
A They are snorkeling with a shark in the ocean.
B They are rafting in a river.
C He is swimming in a cave (in a cenote).
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Vocabulary: activities and bodies of water
part 1 - Which places in the list are good for each of the activities in the list?
wading - walking in water that isn’t very deep
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In most English-speaking education, children are taught that there are 7 continents.
- Africa
- Europe
- Asia
- North America
- South America
- Oceania/Australia
- Antarctica
(“America”, in English, usually means the United States. “The Americas” includes North, Central, and South America.)
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p. 34 part 4 - Listen to the people talking about two of the pictures. Is each statement true or false?
1 T
2 F - They were coming down from some rapids.
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 F
part 5 - What happened next?
1 b
2 c
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Note that all of the activities on p. 34 part 1 are “go” activities: go diving, go swimming, go windsurfing
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Grammar: simple past and past continuous
In part 4, which sentences are simple past and which are past conitnuous?
simple past - 3, 4
past continuous - 1, 2, 5, 6
past continuous = was/were + verb(ing)
- We use simple past when the action happened and finished.
- We use past continuous when the action continued for some time (usually, something else happened during that time).
I cooked dinner when you got home. - I started cooking after you got home.
I was cooking dinner when you got home. - I started before you arrived and I finished after.
(I had cooked dinner when you got home. - I started and finished cooking before you got home.)
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Other conjunctions that can go with simple past and past continuous:
While I was cooking dinner, you got home. / You got home while I was cooking dinner.
(“While” goes before something that took some time.)
He was concentrating on what he was doing, so he got lost.
He got lost because he was concentrating on what he was doing.
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p. 35 part 10 - Make sentences with simple past and past continuous, using “while”, “when”, “because”, and “so” (each once).
1 While I was taking a photo of the hippo, I dropped my camera in the water.
  I was taking a photo of the hippo when I dropped my camera in the water.
2 My friend fell out of the raft because he wasn’t holding on.
3 I saw some strange fish when/while I was diving.
4 I was having some problems with my mask, so my brother helped me.
  I had some problems with my mask, so my brother helped me.
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What do you know about the Titanic (the ship, not the movie)?
- It was a big ship.
- It hit an iceberg and sank.
- Many people died.
- This happened in April, 1912.
p. 36 - Read the interview “Return to the Titanic”
part 1 - Which of these interview questions goes with each paragraph?
1 b
2 a (“Not at first” answers a yes/no question.)
3 d
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Grammar: simple past and past perfect
p. 37 part 4 - Put each group of events in the correct order. Then check with your partner.
1 b c a
2 b c a
3 c a b
Which of these sentences are past perfect in the interview text? What pattern do you notice?
- Past perfect actions happened before simple past actions.
- When we’re telling a story about a specific time, things that happened earlier are in past perfect.
For example, paragraph 2 is about events in 1985, when Ballard discovered the wreck.
Actions in 1985: realized, jumped for joy, realized, held a memorial
Actions before 1985: ships had sunk, people had died
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Past Perfect form: had + past participle
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p. 37 part 7 - Choose the correct words for each sentence.
1 had been
2 sank
3 was
4 had disappeared
5 hadn’t located
6 had visited
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sink/sank/sunk (same family as sing/sang/sung, drink/drank/drunk, swim/swam/swum)
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When the ambulance arrived, the patient was already dead. (Being dead is a condition that was still true at the time the ambulance arrived.)
When the ambulance arrived, the patient had already died. (Dying is an action that happened and finished before the ambulance arrived.)
*Before the ambulance arrived, the patient had been dead. (The patient was alive again when the ambulance arrived.)
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Lateral Thinking Puzzles - One person in your group has the answer to each situation. Ask yes/no questions to that person to try to figure out the explanation for each situation.
Clue: Each situation has some connection to water.
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Homework: Read the blog entry on p. 41, then write a similar story about what you did some weekend (real or imagined). Try to use some past continuous and past perfect sentences.
	Also: Read the article on p. 51 and do p. 50 parts 2, 3, and 4.