2014-09-29 Evening: gambling reading & listening

Greg Malivuk
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No Class October 13 (Monday) - Columbus Day
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Optional Homework: finish the parallelism worksheet.
(On Monday we will check p. 171-173 (reading and questions))
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p. 172 exercise B
1 Support
2 Concession ("Yes, this is true, but...")
3 S
4 S
5 S
6 S
7 S
8 C
9 C
10 C
11 S
12 C
13 C
14 S
15 S
p. 173 exercise C
1 runs out of money
2 a lot of people (score = 20)
3 arrange meetings between politicians and people from the gaming industry to try

to convince the politicians that legalized gambling is good for the economy
4 people's capacity to adapt
5 there is less income for each casino
  building a new casino won't create more total revenue
6 residents don't have to pay much in income taxes
7 generate jobs
  contribute to gambling addiction
8 took a long time to realize there was a problem
9 it is now the most common form of gambling in the country
10 been watered down
11 there are not enough customers to fill all the casinos

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new

nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are

created equal."

"better" - good/better/best
"bettor" = person who bets
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A
1 a
2 b
B
1 T
2 F - he lost everything
3 F - he converted
4 T
5 T
6 F - one in five
7 F - 86%
8 T
9 T
10 T
11 F - they spent $500 million
12 F - he calls it corruption
C
1 commission
2 growth
3 tough
4 diversion
5 compulsive
6 homeless
7 loose
8 conversion
9 spokesman
10 mission
11 booze
12 casinos
13 upside-
14 significant
15 lotto
16 conducted
17 addicts
18 pipe
19 intends
20 impact
21 evidence
22 outpatient
23 afford
24 hooked
25 revenue
26 convince
27 gamble
28 ethic
29 sustains
30 losers

loose - adjective (opposite of "tight")
lose - verb (opposite of "gain" or "find")
loss - noun (opposite of "gain")
lost - past of "lose"

Atlantic City Boardwalk
Las Vegas Strip

"He underwent a Christian conversion."
past of "undergo" = go through (a process or procedure)
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Homework: 174-175 C (vocabulary reinforcement) and 175-178 A (reading)