2016-06-11 Saturday: 7 Living Space

Greg Malivuk
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“2016-06-11 Saturday: 7 Living Space”
This is the same level and book as the “Core” class.
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p. 81 parts 2-3 - Discuss the questions with your partner.
p. 82 part 1 - With a different partner, decide whether these things are necessary, important but not necessary, or not important for a place to live. (And what else is necessary or very important for you?)
	(Use a dictionary on your phone or the Internet if you don’t know what a word means.)
The furniture that is like a closet is a wardrobe.

garden: smaller, flowers and other specific plants (flowers and vegetables grow in gardens)
yard: bigger, mostly grass

central heating or air-conditioning: one machine for the whole house (instead of one in each room)

porch: a covered outdoor area that includes an entrance to the house
balcony: an outdoor floor that is above the ground level and has only air beneath it
terrace: an outdoor floor that is above another part of the house (or on the roof)
	(Also: a row of houses with one roof)
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Why would someone live in the types of houses in the pictures?
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p. 83 part 4 - Listen to the replies and complete the sentences.
What is a shelter?
- A place you can live temporarily for protection from the elements (= bad weather and temperatures).
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Grammar: comparatives and superlatives

comparatives: to compare two things
	short adjectives - add -er: cheaper, bigger, taller, happier
	long adjectives - with “more” or “less”: more expensive, less expensive, more careful, less careful
repeated comparatives: to say that a change continues over time
It’s getting colder and colder. Things are getting more and more expensive.
paired comparatives: to say how two things change together
	The colder the climate, the warmer your house has to be.
as...as (equatives): to say that two things are the same
	My house is as beautiful as your house. (They are equally beautiful.)
	My house is not as expensive as your house. = My house is less expensive than your house.

superlatives: to talk about more than two things
	short adjectives - add -est: cheapest, biggest, tallest, happiest
	long adjectives - with “most” or “least”: most expensive, least expensive
usually use “the” with superlatives, because it’s a specific thing
	My house is the biggest (house) on the street.
	He is the youngest person in our family.
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p. 83 part 7 - Rewrite the sentences so they have the same meaning using the words in parentheses. Begin each sentence with the words in bold.
1 Houses are less appropriate for local conditions.
2 A cave house is not as small as you think.
3 An igloo is not as cold as you might think.
4 New houses are more and more expensive every year.
  New houses are getting more and more expensive.
5 My tent is the best (of all the ones) in camp.
6 This house is the oldest one.
7 A house on stilts survives more easily in floods.
8 You can put up a ger more quickly than a brick house.
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Separable phrasal verbs can have the object between the verb and the particle:
Turn the lights on. = Turn on the lights. (noun objects can go between or at the end)
Turn them on. (WRONG: Turn on them.) (pronoun objects must go between)
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p. 84 part 2 - Complete the sentences with words from the box, and then write five more sentences about NYC using the other words.
1 atmosphere
2 public transportation
3 financial
4 modern
5 built-up
6 skyscrapers
7 residents
8 neighborhoods
There is a lot of crime in NYC.
NYC doesn’t have a lot of open spaces except Central Park.
NYC is a very polluted city.
Some neighborhoods are old and rundown.
The traffic is terrible in NYC.
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The top picture is an image of what Manhattan island used to be.
It used to be green.
*In Manhattan used to live animals. -> Animals used to live in Manhattan.
In Manhattan there used to be animals.
Manhattan didn’t use to be polluted.
Did animals use to live there?
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Past with “used to” = something that was true for a while in the past, but is the opposite now
(If it only happened once, it wasn’t true for a while, so no “used to”.)
(If it’s not the opposite now, no “used to”.)
They used to live on the corner. = Now they don’t live on the corner.
They didn’t use to live on the corner. = Now they live on the corner.
They didn’t live near me. (I don’t know anything about where they live now.)
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p. 85 part 9 - Rewrite the sentences with “used to” if possible.
1 New York used to be a lot greener than (it is) now.
2 There used to be a lot of forest and natural landscapes.
3 Residents didn’t use to live in a large city. (The early residents don’t live anywhere now.)
4 People used to hunt beavers for their skins.
5 (no change - it happened only once)
6 What originally used to be in the area where Fifth Avenue is now? (Subject is “what” -> no “did”)
What did they use to eat? (Subject is “they” -> yes “did”)

Who lives here? (Subject is “who”.)
Who do you live with? (Subject is “you”.)
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If something was repeated many times in the past, we can use “would”.
When I lived there, I would always ride my bike to school.

nostalgia = the feeling of sadness because you miss something about the past
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part 11 - Complete each sentence so it’s true for you, and then compare your answers with your group. Ask additional questions if you’re curious about more information.
1 I used to work as a teacher. (This means you don’t plan to be a teacher when you return home.)
2 I was always a naughty kid. / I would always get into trouble.
3 My family used to live in another neighborhood.
4 On the first vacation that I remember, I went to Acapulco.
  (Because maybe you really can’t remember your first vacation of your life.)
5 I used to be afraid. I would study very hard.
6 We used to go to the beach.
7 I cried so much.
8 I used to play with my toys.
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“like” and “as”
I cried as a baby. = I cried when I was a baby.
I cried like a baby. = I cried similarly to a baby (but at the time I was an adult).

“as” can mean “because”: I’m going to bed as I’m very tired.
“like” and “such as” can give examples:
There are many restaurants near the school, such as Wendy’s and Pret.
There are many restaurants near the school, like Wendy’s and Pret.
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p. 89 part 6 - Complete the sentences with “like” or “as”.
1 As (if I am a lifelong resident) / Like (if I am a new arrival but take similar pride to a lifelong resident)
2 like
3 as
4 like
5 Like
6 like (my studio is similar to yours, we don’t share the same studio)
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Homework: Write a description of your hometown similar to the one on p. 89.
	p. 98 parts 2, 3, 4, 5 (about the reading on p. 99)