2015-09-23 Core: 11 online communication

Greg Malivuk
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“2015-09-23 Core: 11 [topic]”
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Homework: p. 131 parts 8 and 9
part 8
1 A FUNAI spokesperson said that they had taken the photos to show that these people existed.
2 An anonymous poster asked how many tribes like this were there. (tribes = subject)
  An anonymous poster asked how many tribes like this there were. (there = subject)
3 A language expert explained that the term “uncontacted” was more of a media word than a scientific term.
4 A Peruvian government official anonymously posted to ask if unseen tribes existed.
5 A Peruvian government official publicly said that there was no evidence they existed.
6 A FUNAI spokesperson said that if we didn’t save these tribes, this would happen to all of us.
part 9
1 had made
2 had helped
3 had followed
  He recalled, “My father made friends with three white men and helped them, but illness followed quickly.”
4 had / had had
5 didn’t kill / hadn’t killed
  He explained, “Although we have our own diseases, they don’t kill like malaria.”
  He explained, “Although we had our own diseases (before Europeans came), they didn’t kill like malaria.”
6 had died (“had had knowledge” might be better)
7 needed
8 didn’t have
  He said, “The people who died had knowledge that I need, and I don’t have any way of getting that knowledge now.”
9 wasn’t marked (passive)
10 would take
  He said, “If the forest isn’t marked as ours, the outsiders will take it all.”
11 was
12 could stop
  He told them, “My group is now small. How can we stop this from happening again?”
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p. 132 - use the words in the box to complete the questions, and then ask your partner the questions
1 Twitter (Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook) (If I follow you and you follow me, we are “mutuals”.)
2 texting
3 Flickr
4 broadband (from your home to the Internet)
5 Skype
6 blog
web + log = blog
video + blog = vlog
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http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0014.html - article about the Sony Data DiscMan, which was more or less the first portable ebook reader
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BREAK
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p. 132 part 3 - with a partner, talk about what you’d expect to read in an article with each headline
part 4 - listen and match the number of the conversation with the headline
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[verb] your way [location expression]
Tweet your way around the world.
Fight your way to the top.
Lie your way to the Whitehouse.
= [verb] in order to get [location expression]
or = [verb] while you go [location expression]
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p. 133 part 5 - listen again, then complete the sentences about each story
1 The journalist asks her Twitter followers to suggest things to do.
2 The blog reminds readers not to use telescopes.
3 The company told people not to show up for work.
4 The politician has invited aliens to meet him.
The journalist asks her Twitter followers, “Please suggest things to do.”
The blog reminds readers, “Do not use telescopes.”
The company told people, “Do not show up for work.”
The politician invited aliens, “Please meet me at the Capitol.”

The blog wrote, “You should never use a telescope to view an eclipse.”
The blog wrote that you should never use a telescope to view an eclipse.

The journalist asked, “Could someone suggest a place to get breakfast?”
The journalist asked if someone could suggest a place to get breakfast.
I said to her, “I will definitely call you when I get back.”
I promised that I would definitely call her when I got back.
I promised to call her when I got back.

I asked him to call.
I told him to call.
I reminded him to call.
I invited him to call.

I asked to call.
I promised to call.
I offered to call.
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p. 133 part 11 - Use the words in the box to report the sentences.
1 Marta reminded Amy to turn of her cell phone.
2 Jose asked Marta to set up his email.
3 Amy invited Jose to come and 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.
6 Amy promised to turn it off when she was done.
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Homework: read page 135, do parts 3 and 4 on page 134