2016-03-16 Core: communications technology

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 131 part 8 (change the direct speech into reported speech) and p. 171 practice 1
p. 171 practice 1 (assume they said these things a long time ago in a different city)
2 Anita said (that) she would read the news report the next day.
3 Joe said (that) he had visited the Amazon rain forest on his trip to South America the year before.
4 Mai asked if/whether she could give me (could be any other personal pronoun) a donation for charity.
5 Nasrin said that she had just seen the documentary about endangered languages of the world.
6 Miguel said that he had been reading the paper the previous day.
7 Simon asked if/whether I had ever met anyone from Peru.
8 Manuela said that they were meeting at nine the next day.
  Manuela said that they were going to meet at nine the next day.
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http://imgur.com/sVtnbuK - explanation of “past from the future” and “future from the past”
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p. 131 part 8
1 A FUNAI spokesperson said that they had taken the photos to show that those people existed.
2 An anonymous poster asked how many tribes like that there were.
3 A language expert explained that the term “uncontacted” was more of a media word than a scientific term.
4 An anonymous poster asked if/whether unseen tribes existed.
5 A Peruvian government official said (that) there was no evidence (that) they existed.
6 A FUNAI spokesperson said that if we (= everybody) / they (= FUNAI) didn’t save those tribes, this would happen to all of us.
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If the statement or question is about something I believe is true now, I don’t need to change present and future tenses in reported speech.
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We use reported speech when we don’t remember exactly the words someone said, but we remember the content or the information.
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She said, “I know I’ve filed these for you before, but it’s really not part of my job duties and I’m very busy today.”
(These were her exact words.)

She was like, “Done filing your paperwork, not my department, do it yourself.”
(These were not her words, but this was her tone and meaning. This is called quotative “like”.)

She was all, “Shyeah, no.”
(This is a very loose impression of her tone, or an exaggeration of what she said.)
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p. 132 part 1 - Complete the sentences with the words from the box, and then ask and answer the questions with your partner.
1 Twitter (You can also “follow” on Instagram, Facebook (in addition to being someone’s “friend”), Tumblr, Vine)
2 texting
3 Flickr (check out https://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofbostonarchives/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/)
4 broadband (broadband = fast connection to the Internet; wifi = connection from your device to your router)
5 Skype
6 blog / tweet
ebook = book in electronic format (the document); sometimes the device to read these documents
ebook reader = the device you use to read ebooks
blog = web + log
www = World Wide Web
vlog = video blog
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part 3 - What would you expect to read in a story with these headlines?
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BREAK
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“Tweet your way around the world.” - this could have two possible meanings
1 Tweet while you go around the world. (Use Twitter as a travel blog.)

2 Tweet “in order to” travel around the world.
[verb] your way [destination] = use [verb] in order to get to [destination]
“You cheated your way to the top.” = You cheated in order to get to the top (of a company, for example).
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part 4 - Listen to four conversations. Which headlines are they talking about?
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p. 133 part 5 - Listen again and choose the correct options.
1 c
2 b
3 a
4 b
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http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm - Information about the total solar eclipse that will happen in 2017
http://www.exocomics.com/352 - comic about viewing the sun through a telescope
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part 6 - Discuss these questions in groups.
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Karen asked how many countries had fought in World War Two.
= Karen asked, “How many countries fought in WW2?” (The war happened once and is finished.)

Karen asked how many countries had joined the European Union.
= Karen asked, “How many countries have joined the EU?” (More countries can still join the EU.)

Karen asked how many countries had started fighting by the time the US joined WW2.
= Karen asked, “How many countries had started fighting by the time the US joined WW2?” (happened before another thing in the past)
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part 7 - What is the reporting verb in each sentence?
1 The journalist asks her Twitter followers to suggest things to do.
2 The blog reminds readers not to use telescopes.
3 The company told people not to show up for work.
4 The politician invited aliens to meet him.
verb + object + infinitive
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from yesterday:
Statements (affirmative and negative): reporting verb + (that) + sentence
	She said that it was his birthday.
Yes/No questions: reporting verb + if/whether + sentence
	She asked if they were going to make a cake.
Information questions: reporting verb + wh-word + the rest of the noun clause
She asked me, “What kind of cake are you going to make?”
-> She asked me what kind of cake I was going to make.

new today:
Instructions/Invitations/Requests/Offers: reporting verb + (sometimes object) + infinitive
	He invited aliens to meet him.
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Patterns of reporting verbs with infinitives:
ask/tell/remind/invite + object + infinitive (= another person does the action)
	She asked him to close the window. (He should close the window.)
	She reminded him to close the window. (He knows he should close it, and she reminded him so he wouldn’t forget.)
	She told him to close the window. (He doesn’t really have a choice.)
	She invited him to celebrate with her.

ask/promise/offer + infinitive (= the speaker will do the action)
	She asked to close the window. (She will close the window.)
	She offered to close the window.
	She promised to close the window.
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These are the rules when the action is in the infinitive. We can promise or offer in other ways:
She offered to give me money. (offer + infinitive)
She offered me money. (offer + recipient + noun)

She promised to give me money. (promise + infinitive)
She promised me money. (promise + recipient + noun)
She promised (me) (that) she would give me money. (promise + (listener) + sentence)
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part 11 - Choose the correct reporting verb for each situation, and then report the speech with an infinitive. (We will finish checking these tomorrow.)
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Homework: read p. 135 do p. 134 part 3