2015-06-03 Core: towns and cities

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 83 part 7, and p. 87 reading (be prepared to ask about words you don’t understand)
p. 83 part 7
1 Houses are less appropriate for local conditions.
2 A cave house is not as small as you think.
3 An igloo is not as cold inside as you might think.
4 New houses are/get/become more and more expensive every year.
5 My tent is the best in camp.
6 This house is the oldest [house (that) there is.]
7 A house on stilts survives more easily in floods. (adverb)
8 You can put up a ger more quickly than a brick house. (adverb)

fun -> funny -> funnier (-y is a “short” suffix)
quick -> quickly -> more quickly (-ly is a “long” suffix, 95% of comparative adverbs are with “more”)

hardly + any-word = almost + no-word
hardly any = almost no
hardly ever = almost never
hardly anyone = almost no one
hardly anything = almost nothing

adverbs of manner (= how the action happens) are after the verb: quickly, easily, fast, sadly, happily, etc.
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p. 87 reading
We will walk outside despite the rain. = We will walk outside although it is raining.
He has good manners. = He is polite and behaves well.
I bought it for $10 and sold it for $15. I earned $5 profit.
Word spread fast. = People heard about it quickly.
They swapped stories. = They told each other stories. (swap = exchange)
deforestation = the action of cutting down many trees and removing forest area
reforestation = the action of replanting trees and adding forest area
descendants = children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, etc.
(ancestors = parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, etc.)
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p. 86 - 2 - what is the article mainly about?
Do parts 3-5 with a partner.
part 3
a 3
b 2
c 5
d 4
part 4
1 They are graceful and paraded through the town on holidays.
2 It’s large and elegant with fountains and stone benches.
3 It’s small and immaculate.
4 It’s a little shop where men meet to swap stories and have a drink.
part 5
1 a town where coffee is the main industry
2 polite behavior and habits
3 water that comes from the faucet in your house (automatically)
4 the main person who she loved in her life
5 islands where the people’s ancestors came from
6 to tell each other stories
7 the information traveled fast to other places
8 an art (or activity) that few people know how to do today
improvisation
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/22/what-youd-need-to-make-in-every-county-in-america-to-afford-a-decent-one-bedroom/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/county-rental-wages/index.html
(how much money you need to make per hour, 40 hours in a week, to rent a 1 bedroom apartment in the US)
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project choices this week (we will do one of them on Friday):
1 design a tiny house (for example 20m^2)
2 design an unconventional house (in a form or location that isn’t normally for houses)
3 design a neighborhood or community
- we will do #2, but your unconventional house can also be tiny if you think that project is interesting
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p. 86 part 7 - find an example of each of the 3 features in the article
What does she look like? = Tell me about her appearance. (the 3rd feature is about appearance)
             (verb)

What does she like? = Tell me about her preferences.
             (verb)

What is she like? = Tell me about her personality. (the 1st feature is about the “personality” of something)
   (verb)

Who is she like? = Tell me who she is similar to.
  (verb)

Who does she like? = Tell me who her friends are.
            (verb)

Who does she look like? = Tell me who has a similar appearance.
            (verb)

1 There’s a dreamy atmosphere to Adjuntas. A deep love of the land and its customs runs through the place. (most of the first paragraph)
2 The mountains surrounding Adjuntas are rich with gold, silver, copper, and zinc, … (second and third paragraphs)
3 The shop filled with working-class men clapping, tapping, and nodding to the music. (4th, 5th, and 6th paragraphs give many “pictures” to readers)
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What type of word is “surround”? = What part of speech is “surround”?
part of speech = noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, article, quantifier, conjunction, etc.
surrounding area
running water
working men

We can make adjectives with verb+ing, to describe something that often or typically does this action.
(These are called participial adjectives.)
There is a crying baby in that room. = The baby is crying.
This is confusing grammar. = This grammar confuses the students. (= The students are confused.)
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Homework: p. 84 parts 2 and 5 (do the reading about “Before New York” before part 5)