2016-11-19 Saturday: 3 Water

Greg Malivuk
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“2016-11-19 Saturday: 3 Water”
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Homework: Units 1-2 Test
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p. 33 - What are these women doing? How much time do they spend doing this every day?
part 2 - With a partner, try to guess which numbers complete each sentence.
1 70 (70% is about ⅔ of the total, but ⅔ % is only 0.67%)
2 3 (only 1.3% of that 3% is liquid surface water. Most of it is ice, almost all the rest is underground.)
3 46
4 10 (the developing world is countries that are in the process of developing their industry and infrastructure)
5 200
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What are some things you could do to use less water every day?
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p. 34 - What is happening in each picture?
A People are diving with a shark in the ocean.
B People are rafting in a river.
C People are swimming in a cenote (a lake in a cave, or a natural pool).
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With your same partner, decide which places are best for each of the activities listed in part 1.
Use a dictionary if you don’t know the words.
http://learnersdictionary.com/ is a good dictionary for English learners.
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We sometimes talk about whitewater rafting, to mean rafting in a very fast river with rapids and waterfalls.
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part 4 - Listen to people talk about two of the pictures. Are these statements true or false?
part 5 - What do you think happened next?
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What tenses are used in the sentences in part 4?
- past continuous and simple past
Grammar:
simple past = something that happened and finished in the past, or non-actions that were true in the past (such as descriptions)
past continuous = something that continued for a while in the past (and may have been interrupted by another thing)
(past continuous form: was/were + verb-ing)


I was eating dinner when you called me. / When you called me, I was eating dinner.
We were going around a small bend when I saw a hippo.
You called me while I was eating dinner. (You called me during dinner.)
	/ While I was eating dinner, you called me.
I saw a hippo while we were going around a small bend.
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A telemarketer cold-called me and I hung up.
(Similar sounds: killed, cooled)
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The man wasn’t concentrating, so he got lost.
The man got lost because he wasn’t concentrating. / Because he wasn’t concentrating, the man got lost.
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p. 35 part 10 - Complete the sentences with simple past and past continuous, and one each of “when”, “while”, “so”, and “because”.
1 I was taking a photo of the hippo when I dropped my camera in the water.
2 My friend fell out of the raft because he wasn’t holding on. / because he didn’t hold on (when we hit a rock, for example).
3 I saw some strange fish while I was diving.
4 I had / was having (= was experiencing) some problems with my mask so my brother helped / was helping me.
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part 12 (more or less) - Think of the first time you tried a new recreational skill or activity.
Your partners will ask yes/no questions to try to figure out what activity it was.
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3 past tenses:
I made dinner when he got home. (simple past) = I started and finished after he got home. (For example I was waiting for him to get home first.)
I was making dinner when he got home. (past continuous) = I was in the middle of making it when he got home. I started before he got home, and I finished after he got home.
I had made dinner when he got home. (past perfect) = I started and finished before he got home.
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What do you know about Titanic (the ship, not the movie)?
In 1912, on the way from England to the United States, it hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic.
(“sink” is irregular: sink/sank/sunk, like drink/drank/drunk or sing/sang/sung)
p. 36 - Read the article about returning to the Titanic.
part 1 - Which of these questions should go before each paragraph of the article? (There are two extra questions that you will not use.)
- paragraph 1: b
- paragraph 2: a
- paragraph 3: d
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How did Ballard feel when he first found Titanic?
How did he feel when he went back in 2004?
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p. 37 part 4 - Put the events in the correct order. What tense is used in the article for each one?
1 b c a
2 b c a
3 c a b
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Both the champagne box disappearing and Cameron visiting the wreck are in past perfect, so you need additional information to decide which one was first.
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past perfect form
+	subj + had + past participle
	The box had disappeared long ago.
- 	subj + had not + past participle
	The Navy hadn’t found the submarines before.
? y/n	had + subj + past participle
	Had you given him your phone number?
? info	wh- + had + subj + past participle
	Where had she been before you saw her?
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p. 37 part 7 - Choose the correct tense for each sentence.
1 had been
2 sank
3 was
4 had disappeared
5 hadn’t located
6 had visited (“visited” is also okay, becuase “because” makes the order clear)
By the time the ambulance arrived, he was already dead. (He was still dead at that time.)
By the time the ambulance arrived, he had already died. (He had died before that time.)
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Lateral thinking puzzles: Ask the person with the answer yes/no questions to try to figure out each explanation.
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p. 41 - Read the blog post about this person’s weekend.
part 4b - which words in the box have the same meaning as these words from the article?
pouring - raining hard
got there - arrived
packed - very full of people
staring out - looking intently with a lot of attention
clutching - holding tightly
- Except for “got there”, the words in the article are more interesting and more specific than the words in the box.
“We grabbed our beach stuff.” = We picked it up quickly.
“We jumped into the car.” = We got into the car quickly.
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part 4c - Complete these sentences with more “interesting” words from the box.
1 raced (ran very fast)
2 exhausted (very tired)
3 boiling (very hot)
4 scrambled (climbed with hands and feet, up a hill for example)
5 wandered (walked slowly and without a specific destination)
6 collapsed (fell down suddenly)
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Homework: Write a “blog” post about something you did on a previous weekend (real or fake), following the instructions in parts 5 and 6 on p. 41. Try to use some of the “interesting” words from that page.
    Read p. 51 and do p. 50 parts 2, 3, 4, 6