2019-01-12 Saturday: 8 Weird news

Greg Malivuk
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2019-01-12 Saturday: 8 Weird news
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Homework: write a promotional description of your current town to convince people to move there (You can do research online to find more information, but don’t just copy sentences from a website.)
	Also: read the text on p. 99 and answer the questions in parts 2, 3, 4 on p. 98
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part 2
1 The theory that Earhart crashed on Nikumaroro
2 DNA testing
3 That the bone is from Earhart and that she crashed on Nikumaroro
part 3
1 His family is funding the project, and he’s the grandson of the author of a book about Earhart
2 There’s no known hair sample
3 Because 99% of human DNA is identical, they need a large amount to prove anything.
part 4
1 funding
2 reveal
3 ensure
4 archive
5 assumption
6 profile
7 identical
8 log
find - found - finding
fund - funded - funding
found - founded - founding
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see - saw
saw - sawed
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Vocabulary: “like” and “as”
I cried like a baby. = I cried the same way a baby does (recently, as an adult).
I cried as a baby. = I cried when I was a baby.
like: it’s similar but not the same as this thing
as: it is this thing
such as = like: to give an example (There are a lot of good restaurants around here, like ___ and ___.)

p. 89 part 6 - Complete the sentences with “like” or “as”
1 As
2 like
3 as
4 like
5 Like
6 like
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Vocabulary: the natural world
p. 94 - What are the things in the pictures?
part 2 - With your partner, complete the sentences with words from the box. Use a dictionary (or an image search) if you don’t know a word.
1 Nitrogen, oxygen, atmosphere
2 butterflies, flies, insects
3 Radiation
4 Ants, beetles
5 stem
6 Particles
7 Predators, species
8 spikes
http://learnersdictionary.com/
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part 3 - Listen to descriptions of each picture. Which words go with each picture?
1 atmosphere, oxygen, nitrogen, radiation, particles
2 butterflies, ants, species, predators, stem
3 beetles, flies, spikes, insects, ants
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part 4 - Listen again. Are these statements true or false?
1 F
2 T
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 T
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Grammar: modals for speculation and conclusions about the present
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They can’t be natural. = It’s impossible that they’re natural.
They must be man-made. = It’s clearly man-made. I’m (nearly) 100% sure that it’s man-made. The only reasonable explanation is that it’s man-made.
This might be a painting or a work of art. = It’s possible it’s a painting. That’s one reasonable explanation.
It may not be logical. = It’s possible that it isn’t logical.
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could = can = may = might = possible
couldn’t = can’t = impossible
may not = might not = possibly not
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p. 166 practice 1 - Complete the sentences with the correct modal expressions.
1 must be
2 may/might/could be
3 must not live
4 may/might/could have
5 must recognize
6 couldn’t/can’t be / must not be
7 may not / might not see
8 must be coming (there’s not really another explanation for this color change)
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These can also mean the past, with “have” and the past participle:
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They must be man-made. = I’m pretty sure they are man-made.
They must have been man-made. = I’m pretty sure they were man-made.
They might have some good photos. = It’s possible that they have some good photos.
They might have had some good photos. = It’s possible that they had some good photos.
They may not have seen any lights last night. = It’s possible that they didn’t see any lights.
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Vocabulary: “look”
look + adjective/adverb
look like + noun (or sentence, informally)
look as though + sentence
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p. 95 part 10 - Complete the sentences with a form of “look”, “look like”, or “look as though”
1 look
2 looks like
3 looks as though / looks like
4 look
5 look as though / look like
6 look
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Vocabulary: history
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p. 96 part 1 - Complete the sentences with words from the box. Then ask your partner the questions.
1 ancient/sacred
2 period
3 prehistoric
4 century
5 sacred
6 society
belief = something people believe
tradition = something people do (and have done for a while)
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BC = before Christ (sometimes BCE = Before the Common Era / Before the Christian Era)
AD = anno Domini (Latin for “year of the Lord”; sometimes CE = Common Era)
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Read about the Nazca lines.
What are some possible explanations for the lines? (Tell me the sentences from the passage.)
- They might have been ancient Inca roads or irrigation systems.
- The lines must have been part of an astronomical calendar.
- They could have been landing strips for alien spacecraft.
- The Nazca lines may have been part of a long tradition of ceremonial activities.
What other speculations or conclusions about the past are in the passage?
- Water must have had an incredible significance to these societies.
- This must have seemed an astonishing, even sacred phenomenon.
- The same group of people can’t have created them.
- The Nazca people couldn’t have seen them from above.
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Handout (historical objects) - In your group, speculate about what these things might have been used for. Use the grammar from this lesson to speculate and, if you can, draw conclusions about the objects.
1 It might have been a gift for newlyweds trying to have a baby.
  People might have used it as a pillow.
  People might have made this as a memorial for people who died.
	It was a pillow.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/research-journal/issue-no.-4-summer-2012/a-study-of-a-ming-dynasty-ceramic-pillow/
2 People might have used this as a pin.
  It might have been something to hold the clothes together.
	It was a brooch.
3 It might have been used to shave the face, as a razor.
  People might have used this as a mirror.
  It might have been a hammer.
	It was a mirror and razor.
4 It might have been something to make a fire.
  It might have been used as a whistle.
  It might have been binoculars.
	They were snow goggles.
5 It might have been an astronomical compass.
  It might have been used as a map.
  It could have been used to cook.
	It was a map.
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p. 97 part 8 - Rewrite these sentences to use modals instead of words like “possible” and “perhaps”.
1 Water can’t have been easy to find.
2 The rivers might have dried up.
3 The lines must have been very important.
4 The lines may have had a religious significance.
5 The animal drawings couldn’t have been roads.
6 The animals must have lived in the region.
7 The Nazca people could have used simple tools.
8 People must have maintained the lines carefully.
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Homework: 7-8 test