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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
- (This is the Core class.)
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- ape-like = like an ape (gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo, orangutan, or gibbon)
- breed = reproduce, especially with animals
- mis- = wrong (misidentification = wrong understanding)
- folklore = traditional stories that common people share with each other
- mammals = animals which produce milk
- mer- = sea or ocean
- maid = young woman
- hoax = fake story invented to get attention
- depict = show in a picture
- shipwreck = when a ship is destroyed and sinks into the water
- sighting = event where people see something
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- Do you have stories about similar creatures to these in your countries?
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- Homework: p. 131 part 9, p. 134 part 3 (and read p. 135)
- p. 131 part 9
- 1 had made (this happened before the man recalled it)
- 2 had helped (He said, “My father made friends and helped them, but illnesses followed quickly.”)
- 3 had followed
- 4 had (He said, “We have our own diseases.” present -> past)
- 5 didn’t kill
- 6 had died
- 7 needed (He said, “The people who died had knowledge that I need.”)
- 8 didn’t have (He said, “And I don’t have any way to get this knowledge now.”)
- 9 wasn’t marked / weren’t marked (second conditional)
- 10 would take
- 11 was (He said, “My group is now small.”)
- 12 could stop (He asked, “How can we stop this from happening again?”)
- When I was young, my father told me, “You have to eat your vegetables before you can have dessert.”
- My father told me that I had to eat my vegetables before I could have dessert.
- My father said, “I cooked dinner yesterday.”
- My father said that he had cooked dinner the day before.
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- p. 134 part 3
- 1 b
- 2 a
- 3 b
- 4 a
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- part 4 - with a partner, decide which information is correct
- part 5 - underline examples in the article to support your answers to part 4
- 1 can change - “a change in the way we communicate will change those relationships” (par. 2)
- 2 might not have - “But it’s not a real relationship…. So does it make sense to talk about a YouTube ‘community’?” (par. 2)
- 3 have not started - “do any of us really use all the potential that’s there?” (paragraph 5)
- rhetorical question: A question, especially from a writer or someone giving a speech, where the asker isn’t waiting for an answer from the audience. (It could be just to make people think about something, it could be because the writer or speaker will give the answer, or it could be because we should be able to figure out the answer from the rest of the article or speech.)
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- It’s a relationship without any real responsibility that you can turn off at any moment. (paragraph 2)
- Is this really true of all digital relationships?
- Is this ever true of in-person relationships (for example people you don’t have to see every day)?
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- “time” = occasion/event
- I’ve eaten in this restaurant three times. The last time was yesterday. The first time was in May.
- “time” = (historical) period
- Do remember a time before the rain? It is the greatest invention of our time. My grandfather told me that in his time, things were different. That was a different time.
- “time” = the thing we measure with seconds/minutes/hours/days/etc.
- How much time do you spend on social media? I don’t have enough time to do this.
- “time” = information the clock or calendar tells you
- It’s time to go. It’s time for lunch. It’s bedtime.
- lunchtime, bathtime, summertime, springtime, wintertime, Christmastime, mealtime, funtime, playtime
- time for [something] = [something]_time (usually written with a space)
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- BREAKTIME
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- p. 132 part 1 - complete the sentences with words from the box
- part 2 - ask and answer the questions with your partner
- 1 Twitter
- 2 texting
- 3 Flickr (owned by Yahoo)
- 4 broadband (the answer could be WiFi in a place like the airport)
- (broadband = a fast internet connection)
- 5 Skype (owned by Microsoft)
- 6 blog (web + log = blog, video + blog = vlog, e.g. on YouTube)
- (tweet = the name for posts on Twitter)
- When were ebooks (portable devices for reading electronic books) invented?
- 1992 - Sony Data Discman
- (1994 - IBM Simon - first “smartphone”)
- We can say these devices were “before their time”, because people didn’t see a need for them at that time. (They were invented before a market existed.)
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- part 3 - what do you think these stories will be about?
- UFO = unidentified flying object (many people believe they are alien ships)
- part 4 - which conversation is about which headline?
- part 5 - listen again and complete the sentences
- 1 c
- 2 b
- 3 a
- 4 b
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- She asks her followers to suggest things.
- The blog reminds readers not to use telescopes.
- The company told people not to show up.
- The politician invited aliens to meet him.
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- part 11 - which reporting verb is appropriate for each situation? write the sentences as reported speech.
- (ask/tell/remind/invite/promise/offer)
- 1 Marta reminded Amy to turn off her cell phone.
- 2 Jose asked Marta to set up his email.
- (Jose asked Marta if she could set up his email.)
- 3 Amy invited Jose to watch the movie on their new flat screen TV.
- 4 Marta told Amy to plug in the battery charger first.
- 5 Jose offered to upload those photos to the computer for Marta.
- (Jose said that he could upload those photos to the computer for Marta.)
- 6 Amy promised to turn it off when she was done.
- (Amy promised (Jose) that she would turn it off when she was done.)
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- Homework: p. 171 practice 1 and 2
- also: make a list of some questions to ask an uncontacted tribe or aliens, and of some communication difficulties you’d probably have in that situation
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