2015-05-19 Evening: passive and food

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: handout p. 61
exercise 8
1 Erin was seen outside the theater as she was waiting to go in. She had a new hairstyle.
2 Karen feels sad because she wasn’t promoted and she has to carry on as if nothing happened.
3 The ball is thrown to Evans. / Evans is thrown the ball. Evans tries to go past Jennings, but he is stopped (by Jennings). It’s a foul.
exercise 9
1 impossible, a (b if it said “to them”)
2 inexplicable (= unexplainable), b
3 knowledgeable, b
4 illegible (= unreadable), b
5 inaudible, a
6 unspeakable, b (“indescribable” = it can’t be described)
7 reusable, a and b
prophesy (from Greek)
foretell (from Old English/Germanic)
predict (from Latin)
-able is a productive suffix = we can add it to most transitive verbs to make new adjectives
exercise 10
just after my younger sister was born
Lots of people came to our house
I was given the job
As each guest arrived
I was handed boxes or bags
which were filled with things
that were wrapped in Christmas paper
I was told which ones (someone else told me this)
had to be placed in a pile
So many presents were brought for us. (We were brought so many presents.)
the experience of being given so much (“of” = preposition -> followed by gerund)
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fertilizer / herbicide / pesticide (“organic” means these three things are natural rather than synthetic)
free-range = the animal has some freedom to move around
cage-free = the animal does not live in a cage

food desert = a region where it is difficult to get affordable groceries, poorer areas and cities usually have bigger/more food deserts

paralyzed by choice = you can’t choose because you have too many things to choose from
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Homework: p. 104-106 (reading and vocabulary)