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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework: read p. 147 and do p. 146 parts 1, 4, and 5
- part 1
- 1 special warriors who protected wealthy landowners
- 2 Japan
- 3 from the tenth (maybe 12th) century to the 19th century
- (The 10th century was when the court tried to organize a conscript army.)
- 4 They fought on horseback and also challenged opponents to ritualized combat. They also socialized with artists and practiced calligraphy, flower arranging, and the tea ceremony.
- part 4
- 1 T (“Their customs would have been familiar to a medieval European knight”)
- 2 F (they lost their position in society after a period of peace in Japan)
- 3 T
- 4 F
- 5 T
- part 5
- 1 appeal
- 2 overcoming
- 3 fierce
- 4 battle-weary
- 5 savage
- 6 unarmed
- 7 threat
- 8 lone
- a lone gunman (lone + noun)
- a gunman who was alone ([be] + alone)
- lone/alone
- living/alive
- sleeping/asleep
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- part 6 - With your partner, decide exactly where in the article each of these sentences could go. (After which sentence in the article?)
- 1 “Bushido”, after “Our message here...enjoy life.” (at the end of the paragraph)
- “His words” refers back to the words of Terukuni Uki.
- 2 “Samurai history”, after “If the court had succeeded...have existed.”
- “these men” = the wealthy landowners
- 3 “Samurai identity”, after “Samurai generals...went to the theater.”
- “also” means this sentence comes after some other things Samurai did.
- 4 “Samurai today”, after “The samurai have inspired...TV dramas.”
- Seven Samurai is one example of the movies the samurai have inspired.
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- parts 7 and 8 - With your new partner, choose or write the correct meaning of the expressions with “go”.
- part 7
- 1 went into battle = fought (“go into” = enter)
- 2 didn’t go well = weren’t good
- 3 went into decline = weakened
- 4 go back in time = return to the past
- part 8
- 1 went wrong = failed / was unsuccessful
- 2 went on = continued
- 3 going up = increasing
- 4 went quiet = became quiet
- 5 go ahead = continue after a pause or interruption
- 6 have a go at = try (to see if you like doing it)
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- part 9-10 - Would you like to travel to the past or future? Think about the information in part 9 and tell your partners.
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- BREAK
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- p. 148 part 1 - Do people in your culture apologize in these situations? How would you apologize?
- Are there other situations where your culture and the United States have different ideas about apology?
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- part 2 - Look at the expressions from the three conversations. What do you think they’re talking about?
- part 3 - Listen and check.
- part 4 - Listen again and answer these questions about the conversations
- 1 guest doesn’t eat meat; the man dropped a tray of glasses; the man is late because of the bus
- 2 a 2
- b 1
- c 3
- 3 the guest eats the vegetables and not the meat; they both apologize to each other; the person who is late apologizes and the other person says it’s fine
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- part 6 - Take turns saying the sentences and responding with an apology (in pairs).
- part 7 - With a different partner from your group, choose a problem from part 1 or another situation, decide what your relationship is, and prepare (write) a conversation with at least one apology.
- part 8 - Act out your conversation for another pair. Try to guess the relationship and situation of the conversation you see.
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- Homework: p. 145 part 9 and p. 172 practice 2 (you should probably do 172 first)
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