2016-06-17 Core: pronunciation and homestay guide

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: textbook p. 172 practice 2, workbook p. 71 part 3
practice 2
2 would have found, hadn’t lost
3 Would you have planned, had known
4 had prepared, would have succeeded
5 would have been, had understood
6 would you have done, had attacked
7 wouldn’t have felt, had read
8 had wanted, would have welcomed
success / successful / succeed / succeeded (first ‘c’ is /k/, second ‘c’ is /s/)
Look at Luke.
workbook p. 71 part 3
1 If J.K. Rowling hadn’t become unemployed, she wouldn’t have started writing.
2 Tim wouldn’t have worked on hypertext if he hadn’t wanted to share information with other researchers.
3 If Alexander Fleming had cleaned his dishes, penicillin wouldn’t have grown on them.
4 If Wangari Maathai hadn’t started the Green Belt movement, millions of trees wouldn’t have been planted in Kenya.
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Reduced pronunciation of “have” after modals:

You should have called me. -> You should’ve called me. -> You shoulda called me.
	(Sometimes people write “should of” instead of “should’ve”, but this is incorrect.)
You could have called. -> You could’ve called. -> You coulda called.
would have -> would’ve -> woulda
might have -> might’ve -> mighta
must have -> must’ve -> musta

You should not have called. -> You shouldn’t have called. -> You shouldn’t’ve called. -> You shouldna called.
could not have -> couldna
would not have -> wouldna
might not have -> might notta (“mightn’t” isn’t common)
must not have -> must notta (“mustn’t” is also not common)
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More accent and dialect class discussion.
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Standard greetings:

How are you? How’s it going? How are you doing? How are things? How’s everything?
- Fine, thanks. / Pretty good. / I’m alright. / etc.

What’s up? What are you up to? What’s going on? What’s happening?
- Not much. / Nothing much.
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p. 149 part 1 - Tell your partners what things about American culture and behavior that you have found strange or different.
Did you have many of the same ideas?
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part 3c - Read the article, and replace the other highlighted words (after “them”) and expressions with the pronouns and words from the box.
these things = they
in their home = there
a gift from a guest = the same
Your stay = It
American = their
the photos = them
Taking the photos = This
a tourist = one
Normal life = That
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Why do we use pronouns like this?
- It avoids repeating the same words many times.

Sometimes it’s useful, especially in a speech, to repeat the same words:
by the people, for the people, and of the people - This emphasizes “the people”, which is the idea behind democracy, so it’s important to repeat it.
by, for, and of the people - This has the same meaning, but isn’t so strongly about “the people”.
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part 3a - Do you understand each of these things to look for in writing?
organization = the order that you put the ideas, whether you have an introduction and conclusion
relevance = if the information is important and related to the main topic
style = formal or informal, brief or long and detailed
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Homework: Write a guide like the one on p. 149, for potential American students who are going to stay with a host family in your country. (You can use the things in part 4 for ideas.)