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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework: Make a list of questions humans and extraterrestrials (space aliens) might have during first contact, and make a list of possible misunderstandings and communication problems they might have.
- (Tomorrow in class, you will prepare and then perform a conversation between aliens and humans at first contact.)
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- Questions for humans to ask aliens:
- Where are you from?
- How is your planet? / What is your planet like?
- What does your solar system look like?
- What is your food?
- Why did you come here?
- How long was your trip? / How long did your trip take?
- How far is it?
- What is your civilization’s history?
- Did you build the pyramids? / Stonehenge? / the Nazca lines? / the Moai on Easter Island? / crop circles?
- What is your technology like?
- Have you always observed us? / How long have you observed us? / been observing us?
- Why did you decide to meet us?
- How do you understand what we’re saying?
- Questions for aliens to ask humans:
- Why does your planet have pollution?
- Have you ever been to another planet?
- Why does just Earth have life in your solar system?
- Why are there wars?
- How long can humans live?
- Why do you like (diamonds/gold/money) so much?
- What kind of energy do you use?
- Possible misunderstandings:
- Aliens don’t understand nations, politics, borders, etc.
- They don’t know why there are multiple languages.
- They don’t understand food, or don’t understand meat. (e.g. they evolved from plants and are “solar powered”)
- Different number system.
- Different body chemistry (not DNA/RNA).
- Don’t understand left and right.
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- Imagine that your group has one or two aliens and one or two humans, and they are meeting for the first time. Prepare the conversation they have (and then you will act out the conversation in front of the other group).
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- BREAK
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- Perform your conversations.
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- p. 171 practice 2
- 2 Sarah asked if/whether she could borrow my laptop the next day.
- Sarah asked to borrow my laptop the next day.
- 3 Jhumpa told me to download those photos to her cell.
- 4 Martin reminded me to take my laptop.
- 5 Juan told me that he would connect me to the Internet the next day. (= Juan said he would…)
- Juan promised to connect me to the Internet the next day. (or offered)
- 6 Lin invited me to stay with her the following week. (invited me to come/go and stay with her…)
- 7 Adam admitted that he had been wrong the night before.
- 8 Martina asked where we were going on Saturday.
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- lay - lays - laid
- pay - pays - paid
- say - says - said (but notice the pronunciation change in this case: like “sez” and “sed”)
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- homographs: words that are written the same, but pronounced differently (and have different meanings)
- homophones: words that sound the same, but are written differently (and have different meanings)
- homonyms: words that are written and pronounced the same, but have different meanings
- wound (type of injury) and wound (past of the verb “wind”, which is a homograph with the noun “wind”)
- there and their and they’re - homophones
- right (opposite of “left”) and right (like “human rights”) - homonyms
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- Homework: Write a report to your leader (the captain of your alien ship, or your king or president if you’re human) about the conversation you had in class. Use reported speech. (If you weren’t here, imagine your own conversation and report that.)
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