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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework: Write a report to your leader (the captain of your alien ship, or your king or president if you’re human) about the conversation you had in class. Use reported speech. (If you weren’t here, imagine your own conversation and report that.)
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- p. 140 - What are some problems that can be caused for people with cell phones?
- - car accidents (when people are paying attention to their phones)
- - disruptions (phones ringing when they shouldn’t, texting while walking and not paying attention, etc.)
- - (worries about) cancer or other health effects from the radio waves
- - battery problems can cause overheating and burns
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- part 3 - read the article and find the six reporting verbs. Then write the direct speech for what the people actually said
- 1 Few people asked, “Are there any health risks?”
- 2 Several groups suggested, “Their overuse is dangerous and can lead to an increased risk of cancer.”
- 3 Several governments have told people, “Limit the time and frequency of your cell phone calls.”
- 4 The governments reminded parents, “Don’t allow your children to use them.”
- 5 Health professionals said recently, “The danger to young people has become a mental, not a physical, health issue.”
- 6 Yesterday’s report said, “Vulnerable young people are becoming …”
- (Only number 6 makes sense with direct speech, because there was one report which said one thing. The sentences with plural subjects probably wouldn’t be direct, because each group or government or health professional probably said different exact words, even if the information was the same.)
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- Quotative “like” = using “[be] like” as a reporting verb (for reporting “more or less” what someone said)
- He was like, “Put your cell phone away.” = He instructed me to put my cell phone away, but may not have used exactly those words (and it’s not really important what his exact words were).
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- part 5 - what section of a newspaper would probably have these things? (p. 129 has section vocabulary)
- 1 features or entertainment (“in-depth” makes me think probably features)
- 2 politics / politics and society / national news
- 3 business / finance
- 4 sports pages
- 5 local news
- 6 opinion
- 7 entertainment
- 8 world news / front page
- comment and analysis section = More details and analysis of something, possibly to support a specific opinion, but more in-depth than the opinion page.
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- analyze (verb), analysis (noun for the action), analyst (noun for the person)
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- p. 132 - communication technology vocabulary
- p. 140 part 6 - how do you keep in touch with these people (here or in your country)?
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- Wordbuilding with un- (and other negative prefixes) (p. 131)
- uncontacted = not contacted
- unfortunate = not fortunate
- unconnected = not connected now or in the past; un+connected)
- (disconnected = not connected any more, but connected in the past; disconnect+ed)
- (dis- and de- go with verbs, un- and in-/im-/il-/ir- go with adjectives)
- invisible, incorrect, intolerant, ineligible (in- is the basic form of this prefix)
- impossible, imbalanced, immobile (im- before p, b, m)
- illegal, illiterate, illegible (il- before L)
- irregular, irresponsible, irreversible (ir- before r)
- In English, we don’t change the spelling of one word depending on the next, except with a/an.
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- BREAK
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- TEST
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- Tag questions: short “questions” you put at the end of a sentence to confirm the information in the sentence
- You are from Brazil, aren’t you? / You’re not from Brazil, are you?
- (Affirmative and negative is the opposite of the main sentence.)
- (Use the same helping verb that’s in the sentence, if there is one.)
- You like extreme sports, don’t you.
- You lived in Boston at that time, didn’t you.
- (Because we use do/does/did for questions and negatives in simple present and simple past, we add those to tag questions.)
- I am in the right class, aren’t I? / I’m not in the right class, am I?
- (“am not” has no contraction, so we use “aren’t” instead)
- You have seen this movie, haven’t you? (have + past participle = perfect tense, “have” is the helping verb)
- You have this movie on DVD, don’t you? (have without past participle = “have” is the main verb and we need do/does/did)
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- In speaking, we can usually add “, right?” at the end of any sentence to serve the same function as a rising-intonation tag question.
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