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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework: p. 62 parts 2, 3, 4 about the reading on p. 63
- part 2 - c
- part 3
- 1 forty
- 2 toads
- 3 Every shelf
- 4 almonds
- 5 One of his poems, Canto on the Last Flooding of the Chubut River, celebrated a dam being constructed.
- 6 two volumes of
- part 4
- 1 lonely, overgrown
- 2 dark, dusty, two-roomed, bent (under the weight of books)
- 3 alone, intense, luminous
- 4 cosmic (in scope), limited (in quantity), astonishing
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- part 7 - “cast”
- cast = throw
- cast = choose someone to play a(n acting) role
- “She [Patagonia] casts her spell.”
- part 8 - complete the sentences with words from the box
- 1 mind
- 2 net (common metaphorical expression)
- 3 eye
- 4 doubt (common expression)
- 5 vote (common expression)
- 6 shadow (common expression)
- broadcast = to “cast” a signal (radio or TV) in all directions (broadly)
- Derived words include “podcast”, “livecast”, “webcast”, “newscast”, “simulcast”
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- part 9 - In groups of 3-4, take turns describing a meeting with someone during a journey or trip.
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- p. 66-67 - Where do you think this picture was taken?
- What is the Camino de Santiago?
- - a pilgrimage route in northern Spain
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- BREAK
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- “Long” and “short” vowels in (American) English:
- “long” vowels sound like the name of the letter:
- bait, beet, bite, boat, boot
- “short” vowels are the sounds the letters make when they are the only vowel in a syllable:
- bat, bet, bit, bot, but
- Also, we have the distinct vowels in “good” and “bought” and the diphthongs in “boy” and “bout”.
- Finally, the schwa is the most common pronunciation of unstressed vowels. Alaska
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- p. 67 part 3 - Watch the video and answer these questions.
- part 4 - Watch the first part again. What is the significance of each of these things?
- a He picked up a book about the Camino de Santiago in a bookstore.
- b He read the book on a plane.
- c There was no Internet to find information about the route, so he had to contact the author directly.
- d The author, Jack Hitt, worked for Harper’s.
- e Hitt gave McCarthy his home phone number, which McCarthy called repeatedly.
- part 5 - Watch the second part again and answer the questions.
- 1 a terrifying, transformative
- b miserable, lonely
- c religious
- d unafraid
- 2 To see if he could take care of himself.
- part 6 - Watch the last part and answer these questions
- 1 He wonders if it’s the kind of trip you can do twice.
- 2 a month
- 3 hostels and inns (refugios and pensiones)
- 4 gold card, He had the pilgrim experience, but with more luxury.
- 5 He told himself that he wanted to meet the locals and experience local life, instead of just tourists and other pilgrims.
- part 7 - Complete the summary of his story with one word in each blank.
- 1 bookstore
- 2 walked
- 3 Spain
- 4 bought
- 5 Internet
- 6 author/writer
- 7 transformative
- 8 lonely
- 9 changed
- 10 unafraid
- 11 inns
- 12 locals
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- p. 64 part 1 - have you had to do any of these things? (a-f)
- What reading aloud tips would you give to someone who has never read out loud before?
- part 2 - What words can we use to complete these speaking tips?
- 1 background
- 2 enunciate
- 3 pause
- 4 volume
- 5 dialogue
- 6 enthusiasm
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- Types of tongue twister:
- Unique New York. (difficult to repeat many times)
- The sixth sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick. (difficult to say once)
- A noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more. (difficult to understand)
- Betty bought a bit of butter,
- but her butter made her batter bitter,
- so Betty bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter batter better.
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- Project for tomorrow: Plan a world tour with some sort of common theme for the places you visit.
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- Homework: p. 163 practice 1 and 2, and think about possible themes and places for the world tour
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