2017-09-16 Saturday: 1 Color

Greg Malivuk
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“2017-09-16 Saturday: 1 Colors”
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In pairs or groups, choose any company whose logo you are familiar with.
Imagine you are bad graphic designers, and redesign their logo with ugly colors and design.
Then get ready to promote your design to the company, as if you don’t know it’s bad.
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p. 12 part 2 - Choose the correct word for each definition. Then discuss whether there’s a color that you associate with each thing.
1 prosperity / prosperous
  (passion / passionate)
2 luck / lucky
  (love / loving)
3 courage / courageous
  (anger / angry)
4 wisdom / wise
  (happiness / happy)
5 knowledge / knowledgeable
  (sorrow / sorry/sorrowful)
6 sadness / sad
  (power / powerful)
7 mourning / mournful
  (joy / joyful)
8 envy / envious (similar but not the same as jealousy / jealous)
  (pride / proud/prideful)
What are the adjectives for each of these nouns?
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p. 10 - Read the “Life in Color” article.
What three ways does the article say we use color? What are some other examples of using color in each way?
identity: school uniforms, sports jerseys, flags, tribes, military uniforms, work uniforms
decoration: face paint for a festival, holidays, seasonal colors
messages: blue=trustworthy, green=environmental, traffic signs and lights, white=clean, black=mourning
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What tense are the verbs in the “Identity” paragraph? - simple present
	Why? - It’s something that’s always true.
The “Decoration” paragraph? - present continuous
	Why? - It’s “happening” now (happening when the picture was taken).
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Grammar: simple present and present continuous
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Simple present
- something that’s always true
- habits, routines, and other regularly repeated actions
- stative verbs (non-actions) that don’t take any time (like “know” and “want”)
Present continuous
- actions (dynamic verbs) that are happening right now
- actions that are repeated continuously (“She’s always listening to music.”)
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continuous = [be] + verb(ing)
+ 	I am teaching English right now.
- 	I am not eating right now.
? y/n	Am I eating right now? (Yes, you are. / No, you aren’t.)
  info.	What are you doing right now?
	Who is teaching this class? [This is a subject question, because “who” is the subject.]
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simple present
+	I teach English. He teaches English.
- 	I don’t teach French. He doesn’t teach French.
? y/n	Do I teach English? (Yes, you do. / No, you don’t.) Does he teach English? (Yes, he does. / No, he doesn’t.)
  info.	What do you do? What does he do?
	Who teaches English? [subject question]
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Some verbs have both dynamic (action) and stative (non-action) meanings:
I have one sister. (stative)
I’m having lunch with my sister today. (action, = eat)
My sister is having a baby in a couple months. (action, = bear)

I think you’re nice. (stative, = believe)
I’m thinking about my vacation. (action)

She comes from France. (stative)
She’s coming from France next Sunday. (action)

She loves her new class. (stative)
She’s loving her new class. (action, = enjoy, informal)
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BREAK
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Vocabulary: time expressions
p. 11 part 8 - Which time expressions (from the box) generally go with each tense?
simple present: on weekends, every day, never, always, often, usually
present continuous: right now, this month, this week, at the moment, this fall, today, currently
	(Expressions like “this fall” can be considered “extended present”.)
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phrases and “today” can go at the beginning or the end of the sentence:
	Right now, I’m teaching English. / I’m teaching English right now.
frequency adverbs go after the subject and before the main verb:
	I never travel on weekdays. I usually shower at night. (I am currently teaching.)
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part 10 - Find out who does three of these activities the most frequently. (You can also ask follow-up questions.) Stand up and walk around to ask your questions to other people.
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p. 13 part 8 - Add one word to each question in the “Quiz” to make it grammatically correct.
Blue
1 do
2 Who
3 is
4 is
Yellow
1 does
2 What/Which
3 do
4 can
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Part 9 - Ask the other team your questions. 5 points for a correct guess on the first try, 1 point for a correct guess after hearing the answer choices.
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Vocabulary: roles
p. 14 part 7 - Make sure you understand all of these role words.
A colleague is similar to a coworker, but not quite the same.
competitor: someone with the same goal as you (and you can’t both get it)
contestant: someone participating in a game or contest
opponent: someone working against you
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Many role words have similar forms:
verb + -ent/-ant: student, assistant, resident, attendant
verb + -er/-or: actor, competitor, educator, teacher, manager, singer, cleaner
noun + -ist: scientist, anthropologist, biologist, pianist, primatologist, podiatrist, physicist
noun + -ian: pedestrian, musician, physician, mathematician, statistician, pediatrician
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p. 17 - Read the website for the Color It! company.
What’s the difference between a testimonial and a review?
part 1 - Who might use this company?
How do you know this website is for potential customers?
part 3 - Look in the article for these expressions
1 time expressions: currently, this year, fifteen years’, so far
2 expressions that signal additional information: in addition, also
3 verbs describing what the company does: (consult), offer advice, help you find products, working with, advising, redecorating
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in addition: In addition, we help you find products.
also: (formally) We also help you find products. (It’s informal at the beginning.)
as well/too: We help you find products, as well. / We help you find products too.
(neither: You don’t have to worry about furniture arrangement, either.)
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Homework: read p. 15 and do p. 14 parts 2, 4, 5, 6
	Also: Write a company profile website of a company you imagine. Include “about us”, “current projects” and “testimonials”.