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  1. Greg Malivuk
  2. [email protected]
  3. http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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  5. Homework: p. 163 practice 2, and write (2 or 3) sentences describing “possible” travel problems
  6. Example: I arrive in Paris and realize the airport is very far from the city, and the buses and trains have stopped running.
  7. (The examples on my curriculum are: double booking, lost passport, zombie infestation, etc.)
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  9. p. 163 practice 2
  10. 2 has raised, has been walking
  11. 3 have been coming (have come), has increased (has been increasing)
  12. 4 hasn’t been traveling, has seen (already = finished)
  13. 5 have completed, have you been training (training is finished, but only recently)
  14.  
  15. I have been teaching for 2 hours. = I have been teaching without breaks for 2 hours. I am teaching in this moment (or just finished teaching).
  16.  
  17. I have been teaching for 2 years. = This has been my job for 2 years, but I’ve had breaks and I may not be teaching in this moment.
  18.  
  19. Extended present: “these days”, but maybe not “right now”
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  21. Why are you so tired?
  22. I have been working all day. (I’m not working now, but you still see the result of my working.)
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  24. If you use present perfect (not continuous) with a quantity of time (all day, for two weeks, etc.), it should be the long action or non-action meaning.
  25. (The long action meaning is the one you can use with simple present: “I study English.” but not “I study English today.”)
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  27. The most common case when we use perfect continuous is with a quantity of time (answer to “how long”). (This is always true for future perfect continuous.)
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  29. I have written three books. = Each book is finished.
  30.  
  31. I have been writing three books. = Each book is unfinished.
  32.  
  33. I have _______ three books. (With no other information, both “written” and “been writing” are correct.)
  34.  
  35. I have _____ for ten years. (Should be “been writing”, because it tell us a quantity of time.)
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  37. Possible travel problems:
  38. 1 You come to Boston for the first time, and the airline tells you your baggage is in New York. 5
  39. 2 You want to come to Boston, but you lose your ticket in your home airport before you get on the plane. 3
  40. 3 You need to travel by ship, but you often get seasick. 3
  41. 4 You are camping in a national park, and in the morning you wake up because of the trumpeting of elephants, and one of the elephants is going toward your tents. 4
  42. 5 You are driving in a country without Internet, and you can’t find any signs on the road. 10
  43. 6 You’re traveling and haven’t booked any hotels, and it’s the 4th of July so you have to sleep in your car. 6
  44. 7 You are in Berlin and you take a taxi, and you realize that you have no cash and the taxi has no machine to pay by credit card. 11
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  46. Choose the four that you think would be the most interesting to solve with your partner.
  47.  
  48. You come to Boston for the first time, and the airline tells you your baggage is in New York.
  49. You are driving in a country without Internet, and you can’t find any signs on the road.
  50. You’re traveling and haven’t booked any hotels, and it’s the 4th of July so you have to sleep in your car.
  51. You are in Berlin and you take a taxi, and you realize that you have no cash and the taxi has no machine to pay by credit card.
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  53. With your partner, write a few (about 3) sentences of what you should do in each of these situations.
  54. If you finish before other groups, solve the elephant problem:
  55. You are camping in a national park, and in the morning you wake up because of the trumpeting of elephants, and one of the elephants is going toward your tents.
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  57. How do you say ____? / What do you call ____?
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  59. Share your solutions to these problems with the rest of the class.
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  61. BREAK
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  63. races of humans
  64. breeds of dogs, cats, rabbits, etc.
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  66. p. 65 - writing a postcard (Do you write people postcards? Why or why not?)
  67.  
  68. Down Under = Australia (it is in the southern hemisphere, which is “under” the northern hemisphere)
  69.  
  70. I Finally made it to Sydney after having an 18-hour delay in Bangkok.
  71.  
  72. “make it” can mean “arrive (after some difficulty)”
  73.  
  74. So far I have been surfing (I fell off every time!), I have seen the Opera House (wow!), and I have been on a boat trip around the bay.
  75.  
  76. So far I have:
  77. - been surfing
  78. - seen the Opera House
  79. - been on a boat trip around the bay
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  81. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo - misunderstanding tone in text messages
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  83. No kangaroos or koalas yet bc haven’t been out of city.
  84. -> I haven’t seen any kangaroos or koalas yet because I haven’t been out of the city.
  85.  
  86. Text from my uncle in Brisbane--has found me a job there for the summer.
  87. -> I received a text message from my uncle in Brisbane. He has found me a job there for the summer.
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  89. p. 65 2a
  90. abbreviations: bc = because, ps = post script
  91. parenthetical comments: (Fell off every time!), (wow!)
  92. contractions: haven’t
  93. listing items: (as above with “So far have:”)
  94. leaving out words: especially first-person pronouns and articles
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  96. Homework: Write a postcard to a friend back home. Imagine that you had one of the problems you solved today.
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