2015-02-21 Saturday: life events & celebration

Greg Malivuk
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"2015-02-21 Saturday: Life Events"
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Riddle of the Sphinx:
"What goes on four legs in the morning,
on two legs at noon,
and on three legs in the evening?"
- A person: A baby crawls. An adult walks. An old person uses a cane or a stick.
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retire: finish your career because you are 60 or 65 years old
career: the main/principal job that you do in your life
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infant 		0-1 (toddler = after the young child can walk - 2-3)
child		2-12
adolescent	11-13 or 14 (during puberty)
teenager	13-19 (numbers that end with "teen")
young adult	18-29 ("young adult books" are books for teenagers)
middle aged	30-55 (30 until you retire, 55-65)
senior citizen	55+

"Thirty is the new twenty."

Is your career the same thing that you studied in university?
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p. 70 Reading part 4
1 They often intended to do something fun and exciting.
2 They realized that they wanted to stop working and travel.
3 They bought a camper to travel from the tip of South America to Brazil.
4 They hoped to get to Africa on a container ship.
5 Colleagues at work found their decision difficult to understand. Even their closest friends thought they were crazy.
6 They started to live their dream.
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to do, to stop, to travel, to get, to understand, to live - INFINITIVE
infinitive = to + base form

Which of the above sentences have:

A: a verb followed by the infinitive
	1, 2, 4, 6
B: an adjective followed by the infinitive
	5
C: an infinitive to explain the purpose of the main verb
	3 (this explains why they bought a camper)
D: an infinitive as the subject
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A: intend to do, want to do, hope to do, need to do, would like to do

B: It's easy to do. It's difficult to understand. It's important to study.
   I am happy to meet you. They were sad to go home.
- B can also include nouns with "too" and "enough": I have enough money to buy it.

C: I went to the store to buy milk. I stopped at the bank to get money. I'm studying English to get a better job.

D: To win at chess requires much concentration. To be or not to be is the question.
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A: verb + infinitive		B: too/enough/adjective + infinitive
C: infinitive of purpose	D: infinitive as the subject

1 To be objective in my decision - D
2 to make a phone call - B
3 to proofread your paper (before you turn it in) - A
4 to swim six lengths of the pool - B ("able" is an adjective)
5 to play with my little brother - C (why did they come? to play with my brother)
6 to warn me (if anyone comes) - A
7 to give you a ride home - B
8 To move to a larger house - D
9 to be alone in the old house - B
10 to practice the piano an hour a day - A
11 To be a doctor - D
12 To win the presidency - D
13 to feed the kitten (not one of our categories, similar to B: have enough time)
14 to go to Maine this summer - A
15 to call a press conference - A
16 to do his best - A
17 to paint the ceiling of her room - A
18 to speak for half an hour - A
19 to go to Tennessee in October - (after the noun from the verb "plan" - like A)
20 To play tennis every day - D

It is difficult to ride my bike in the snow. - B
I made the activity difficult to make you work hard. - C
(Infinitives of purpose can come after any type of word, so be careful.)

Infinitives can be:
- after adjectives
- after nouns
- after some verbs
- the subject of a sentence
- the purpose of a sentence
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1700s - seventeen hundreds
1800s - eighteen hundreds

1,700 - one thousand seven hundred
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p. 72 part 4
1 mask
2 float
3 candles
4 jazz band ("band" is usually 5+ people)
5 fireworks
6 steel drums
7 costumes

https://www.youtube.com/SteelDrumMusic
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Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday = Lent
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Homework:
p. 72 part 5 - choose another celebration in your country (not Carnival), answer the questions in part 5 about that celebration (also, what *other* traditional activities do people do for the celebration?)