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  1. Greg Malivuk
  2. [email protected]
  3. http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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  5. NO SCHOOL MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5 (Labor Day)
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  7. Homework: Make a list of questions humans and aliens might ask each other when they first meet, and some communication problems or misunderstandings they might have.
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  9. Possible questions:
  10. - Which planet are you from?
  11. - What is your language?
  12. - What do you eat/drink?
  13. - Do you have any experience with kidnapping people?
  14. - Why do you wear ____?
  15. - What is your name?
  16. - Do you have any pictures of your planet?
  17. - Have you been to another planet? / to other planets?
  18. - Can we attack your planet?
  19. - Why did you come here?
  20. - How did you come here?
  21. - How much time did you spend to arrive here? / How long did it take to get here?
  22.  
  23. Possible communication difficulties:
  24. - They might understand what I say but I can’t understand what they say, or vice versa.
  25. - They might not know what food is because they don’t eat. (or water, etc.)
  26. - There might be something basic to them that we don’t understand.
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  28. In your group, decide which two will be aliens and which two will be humans. Then write and prepare a conversation they will have when they meet for the first time. Include at least one misunderstanding or significant conversation difficulty. You will perform this conversation for the other group.
  29. (Your homework will be to write about this conversation, so it is really useful to write what you will say.)
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  31. Homework: Write a report to someone else about the conversation you just had with humans and aliens. Use reported speech to describe the conversation.
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  33. Google Street View - Are there any possible negative consequences of Street View?
  34. https://geoguessr.com/ - Guess where you are by looking at Street View
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  36. BREAK
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  38. p. 137 - A community meeting
  39. What is a residents’ meeting? - A meeting of people who live in the same area.
  40. part 1 - Read the notes from a meeting and answer the questions.
  41. 1 privacy (being able to see house numbers, faces, and inside houses)
  42. 2 information is already available on other sites, burglars don’t need Street View
  43. 3 They will contact Google and other residents’ associations and then get back to this group.
  44. opt in / opt out = choose to be or not be involved with something
  45.  
  46. part 2a
  47. 1 It’s just about 1.1 - privacy concerns
  48. 2 The notes are not in complete sentences
  49.  
  50. part 2b - Write these notes in complete sentences, using the words in parentheses.
  51. 1 The next meeting will be held on November 2nd.
  52. 2 Mr. and Mrs. Watts were absent.
  53. 3 They are going to call on Thursday or Friday.
  54. 4 The meeting’s second topic was street lights. / The second topic we discussed was street lights.
  55. The second item on the agenda was street lights.
  56. 5 What is the address? / We will need to find the address.
  57. 6 We’ll ask at the library, town hall, and so on.
  58. 7 This is not a big problem. In addition, it’s easy to solve.
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  60. http://www.sporcle.com/ - Site for trivia (knowledge) games.
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  62. Homework: Write a report to someone else about the conversation you just had with humans and aliens. Use reported speech to describe the conversation.
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