2018-02-24 (Last) Saturday: 7 Living space

Homework: 5-6 test (I emailed you the Google Form where you can put the answers.)
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How big does a house have to be?
With your partner, design (and draw a floor plan) for a very tiny house (at most 25 m^2 in area).
Make sure to include all the things you think are absolutely necessary, such as a bathroom, a place to sleep, etc.
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How many rooms (total, including bathrooms) does your (host family’s) house have?
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p. 81 - Do you prefer to live alone or with roommates, or with family? Why?
What is your favorite room in your house? (Here or in your country?)
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Vocabulary: House Features
p. 82 part 1 - With a partner, decide which of these features are necessary when choosing a place live, which are important but not necessary, not necessary but cute, and which you don’t really care about. Also add anything to the list that you think is necessary.
Make sure you know the difference between balcony/terraced/porch and between yard/garden.
Use a dictionary (or Google Image Search) if you need to.
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part 2 - For the first three pictures, what are some advantages and disadvantages of this kind of house?
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part 3 - Listen to the interview answers. What were the questions?
1 a
2 d
3 e
4 c
5 b
What is the difference between a house and a shelter?
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p. 83 part 4 - Listen again and complete the sentences with information from the audio.
1 bad weather
2 more basic
3 shelter
4 brick or stone
5 house
6 your house
7 design
8 cities
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Grammar: comparatives and superlatives
comparatives - to compare two things (or groups of things)
	short adjectives: add -er: cheaper, bigger, prettier, nicer, simpler
	long adjectives: add “more” (or “less”): more beautiful, less expensive, more careful
superlatives - to talk about more than two things
	short adjectives: add -est (cheapest, biggest, prettiest, nicest, simplest)
	long adjectives: add “most” or “least” (most beautiful, least expensive, most careful)
	(Grammatically, “first” and “last” are basically superlatives.)
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equatives - to say two things are equal (or unequal)
	all adjectives: “as…as” (as big as, as nice as, as expensive as)
	“not as” means “less” (not as big as, not as expensive as)
repeated comparatives - to say something is changing over time
	Homes are getting smaller and smaller.
	College is becoming more and more expensive.
	New movies are less and less interesting every year.
paired comparatives - to say that two things change together
	The colder the climate, the warmer your house needs to be.
	= Between any two places, the one with the colder climate needs the warmer house.
	The smaller the house, the faster it gets dirty.
	= Between any two houses, the smaller house gets dirty faster.
	The more, the merrier.
	= If more people join us, we will be merrier (happier).
irregular comparatives and superlatives
	good - better - best
	(well - better - best)
	bad - worse - worst
	(badly - worse - worst)
	far - farther - farthest
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p. 83 part 7 - With your partner, rewrite each sentence to use the word in parentheses (and start with the word in bold)
1 Houses are less appropriate for local conditions.
2 A cave house is not as small as you think.
3 An igloo is not as cold inside as you might think.
4 New houses get more and more expensive every year.
5 My tent is the best (of all the tents) in camp.
6 This house is the oldest (house (here)).
7 A house on stilts survives more easily in floods.
8 You can put up a ger/yurt more quickly than a brick house.
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If an adverb is formed with adjective+ly, the comparative always uses “more” or “less”.
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https://books.google.com/ngrams - Compare the frequency of words or phrases in English books.
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Compare Boston and NYC (New York City):
People in NYC are ruder than people in Boston.
NYC is more crowded than Boston.
Trains in NYC are stinkier than in Boston.
Central Park is better than Boston Common.
In NYC the train runs later than in Boston.
NYC is warmer than Boston.
NYC is more popular than Boston.
NYC is more populous than Boston.
NYC is fancier than Boston.
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Superlatives about NYC or Boston:
Boston has the best universities.
NYC’s Empire State Building is the tallest in the United STates.
NYC is the most visited city in the US.
NYC is the biggest city in the US.
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Vocabulary: describing cities
p. 84 part 2 - Use the words from the box to complete these sentences. (Some words won’t be used.)
1 atmosphere (ambiance)
2 public transportation (“mass transit”)
3 financial
4 modern
5 built-up
6 skyscrapers
7 residents
8 neighborhoods
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Iceland and Ireland are islands.
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What do you think Manhattan was like before New York City?
https://welikia.org/explore/mannahatta-map/ - This is the computer map they talk about in the article.
Read the article “Before New York”
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Grammar: additional ways to talk about the past
- simple past: A beaver showed up one morning in 2007. (this happened once)
- used to: Beavers used to be common in that area. (this was true for a while, but not now)
- would: Beavers, bears, and turkeys would roam freely. (this was a repeated action in the past)
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“would” has at least three distinct meanings:
- Would you like to go? - Hypothetical conditionals.
- I knew I would become a teacher. - Future in the past.
- I would ride my bike home from school every day. - Repeated actions in the past.
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“used to” - This was true for a while in the past but now it’s not.
I used to bite my nails. = I did this (for a while) in the past, but now I don’t any more.
“didn’t use to” - This was not true in the past but now it is.
I didn’t use to wear glasses. (Now I wear glasses.)
My grandparents didn’t use to live nearby. (Now they live nearby.)
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p. 85 part 11 - Complete these sentences so they’re true for you and talk about them with your group.
1 Before I studied here, I used to work in a bank.
2 When I was in elementary school, I used play with my friends.
3 Before I moved here, I used to go out with my friends.
4 My first vacation that I can remember, I went to Yellowstone National Park.
5 Whenever I had a test at school, I wouldn’t study.
6 In my family, on weekends we would go to my grandmother’s house.
7 The first time I left home, I was lonely.
8 As a child, I used to travel with my parents.
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p. 89 - Read the first paragraph about Sandgate. What kind of site is it (from part 1)?
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Homework: Write a promotional text about the town where you live now, suggesting that people should move there.
	Also: read about Amelia Earhart on p. 99, then do p. 98 parts 2, 3, 4