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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework: read the text on p. 63 and do parts 2, 3, and 4 on p. 62
- Compare your answers and check your understanding of any new vocabulary.
- part 2 - c
- part 3
- 1 forty
- 2 toads
- 3 Every shelf
- 4 almonds
- 5 dam, built
- 6 two books of
- part 4
- 1 lonely, overgrown
- 2 dark, dusty, two-roomed, (We could use “tin-roofed”, but the author doesn’t.)
- 3 intense, luminous, alone
- 4 cosmic (scope), astonishing, limited (production), weighty
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- hard mistress (often “harsh mistress”) = something that you love but which is harsh (literally: hard woman to love); OR something that is harsh but must be obeyed
- https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/77832/meaning-of-harsh-mistress
- paean = song (or poem) of praise or triumph
- Deluge = flood (when it’s capitalized, it usually means the Biblical Flood in the book of Genesis)
- clatter = a sound like a rattling; hard things hitting together
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- One common form of compound adjective adds ‘ed’ to part of something to describe the whole
- tin-roofed, two-roomed, kind-hearted, green-eyed, three-legged, one-armed
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- Vocabulary: “cast”
- cast (verb) = throw (and many related figurative meanings)
- “She casts her spell.”
- part 8 - Complete these other phrases with “cast”, then discuss what you think the meaning is.
- 1 mind
- 2 net
- 3 eye (usually “eyes”)
- 4 doubt
- 5 vote
- 6 shadow
- (“cast” is the normal verb for the nouns “vote” and “doubt”)
- broadcast -> podcast (like broadcast radio shows, but for iPods and similar devices)
- (This also gives us “newscast”, “webcast”, “livecast”.)
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- p. 66 - Where do you think this picture was taken?
- What is the Camino de Santiago?
- - It’s a pilgrimmage path.
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- part 3 - Watch the video and answer these questions.
- part 4 - Watch part of the video again and explain the importance of these things.
- a - He was in a bookstore (waiting for his girlfriend) when he found a book on the Camino de Santiago
- b - He read the book on the plane (months later).
- c - The Internet wasn’t really a thing he could use for research, so he contacted the author directly.
- d - The author was working for Harper’s at the time.
- e - The author gave him his home phone number, and he called repeatedly.
- part 5 - Watch the next part and answer these questions.
- 1 a transformative, terrifying
- b lonely, miserable
- c a religious experience
- d unafraid
- 2 To see if he could take care of himself.
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- BREAK
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- part 6 - Watch the last part of the video and answer these questions.
- 1 He isn’t sure if it’s a good idea to repeat the same trip again.
- 2 one month
- 3 hostels (refugios) and inns (pensiones)
- 4 gold card; He had the pilgrim experience, but with more luxury and better accommodations.
- 5 He wanted to meet the local people, not just the other tourists and pilgrims.
- part 7 - Can you remember the information to complete this summary?
- 1 bookstore
- 2 walked
- 3 Spain
- 4 grabbed/brought/took
- 5 Internet
- 6 author/writer
- 7 transformative
- 8 lonely
- 9 changed
- 10 unafraid
- 11 inns/pensiones
- 12 locals
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- Communicative Activity - describing a journey
- - Write your own information about a trip or journey you’ve taken.
- - Then ask your partner questions about their trip and complete the chart with information.
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- genre
- rendezvous
- entrepreneur
- reservoir
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- Tomorrow’s project: prepare a travel itinerary for a “themed” world vacation
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- p. 163 practice 1 and 2 - substitution and nominalization
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- Homework: think of themes and places for the project, finish p. 163 if you didn’t in class
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