2019-01-19 Saturday: 9 Trade

Greg Malivuk
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2019-01-12 Saturday: 8 Weird news
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Homework: 7-8 test
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p. 105 part 3 - With your partner, discuss these questions.
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p. 106 part 1 - With your partner, compare whether these statements are true for you, and why.
(Use a dictionary, not a translator, if you don’t know what a word means.)
Pronunciation:
debit - 2 syllables, pronounce ‘b’
debt - 1 syllable, don’t pronounce ‘b’ (like “doubt”)
receipt - don’t pronounce ‘p’
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borrow = take temporarily
lend = give temporarily
loan = lend money (as a bank does); the money itself
mortgage (silent ‘t’) = a loan to buy property (especially a house)
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part 5 - Listen to the radio show and correct any factual mistakes you find.
1 five billion
2 (correct)
3 talk to your cell phone (OR: use your cell phone to talk to a computer system)
4 Afghanistan
5 (correct)
6 National Police
7 receive their salaries through cell phones
8 a text message
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https://www.businessinsider.com/why-doesnt-googles-smart-assistant-doesnt-have-a-name-like-siri-cortana-alexa-2016-5
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What are some advantages and disadvantages of app banking?
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Do you use the same password for everything? Do you reuse any of your passwords (or PIN codes)?
https://www.lastpass.com/ - They will encrypt and store all of your passwords, so you can use a different one for everything.
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Grammar: articles and other determiners
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articles: a/an, the, (some), Ø (zero article)

the - specific (singular or plural); both the speaker and the listener know which one(s)
a/an - nonspecific, singular (count noun); at least one of the speaker or listener doesn’t know which one
	a: the next word starts with a consonant sound - a university, a one-way street, a book
	an: the next word starts with a vowel sound - an hour, an mp3 player, an elephant
Ø/some - nonspecific, plural or noncount; at least one of us doesn’t know which
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other determiners (determiners include: articles, possessives, quantifiers, and demonstratives)
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BREAK
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every/each - singular count nouns (each person, every book)
all - plural and noncount nouns (all people, all books, all traffic, all pollution)
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p. 107 part 10 - Choose the correct options to compelte each sentence, then discuss whether you think these are good money-saving tips and whether or not you actually do them.
1 a
2 your, a
3 the
4 their
5 your
6 Ø, an
7 all
8 each

“Every supermarket’s house brand products are cheaper than name brand products.”
- The first noun phrase is about “products”, but “Every” goes with “supermarket”, so it’s okay to use.
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p. 108 part 1 - Choose some things you have with you right now and answer these questions about them.
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Grammar: passive voice
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form: [be] + past participle
- [be] can be in any form or tense for passive voice
“This might have been used as a hairbrush.”
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p. 109 part 8 - With your partner, complete the sentences with the correct passive forms of the verbs.
After you have done all of them, try to guess which information is correct.
1 have been sold - Nokia 1101 cell phones
2 has been adapted - Tetris
3 has been translated - Agatha Christie
4 was nominated - The Color Purple
5 is worn - Ralph Lauren
6 has been viewed - Justin Bieber
7 were downloaded - Call of Duty
8 was bought - Picasso
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bargaining/haggling = negotiating for a better price when you buy something
Choose something you have with you today. Try to sell it to your classmates.
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Homework: read the text on p. 111 and do parts 2, 3, and 4 on p. 110
	Also: write an online advertisement for the thing you tried to sell in class today. Make sure to include the important information from p. 113 part 1