2017-07-29 Saturday: 9 Trade

Greg Malivuk
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“2017-07-29 Saturday: 9 Trade”
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Homework: units 7-8 test
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p. 105 part 3 - Discuss the questions with your partner.
What other things do you like to buy for yourself or as gifts?
Secret Santa
Yankee Swap / White Elephant Gift
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Vocabulary: money
What are some opposites of the following words (try to think of at least two each if you can)?
buy - sell, give; steal
withdraw - deposit, put in
lend - borrow
save - spend, use
stingy - generous, giving
cheap - expensive, costly, (dear)
poor - rich, wealthy, prosperous
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http://www.thesaurus.com/ - to find synonyms and antonyms of a word
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p. 106 part 1 - Are these sentences true about how you use money? Discuss with your partner.
debt, doubt, receipt - There’s no pronunciation of the ‘b’ or ‘p’ in these words
“owe” and “own” are different words with very different pronunciations
mortgage (silent ‘t’) = a loan to buy property (especially a house)
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https://milliways.cryptomilk.org/passhash.html - Use the same “master key” password with different “site key” phrases for each site, to get a different strong password for each site.
http://www.lastpass.com - Encrypt and store all your important passwords so you don’t have to remember them.
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part 5 - Listen to the report on a mobile banking program and fix the incorrect information.
1 five billion
2 (okay)
3 talk to your cell phone
4 Afghanistan
5 (okay)
6 National Police
7 through cell phones
8 a text message
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Grammar: articles
the world - there is only one
banks - banks in general / all banks
the interactive voice system - this was already mentioned before
a new cell phone banking plan - the first time this thing is mentioned
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“the” means both the speaker and the listener know which one(s) the sentence is about
“a” and “an” means at least one of the speaker and listener don’t know which one
	I’m thinking about buying a new computer. - neither knows which one
	I bought a new computer yesterday. - listener doesn’t know which one
	I heard you bought a new computer. - speaker doesn’t know which one
	I bought the new computer. - We both know which computer (so we must have talked about it before).
“some” or ∅ (the zero article) means at least one of us doesn’t know, and it’s plural or noncount
∅ is also common when we’re talking about something in general (plural or noncount)
	Movies and books are good for learning a new language.
	Sugar is not healthy.
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a: if the next word starts with a consonant sound - a university, a one-way street
an: if the next word starts with a vowel sound - an hour, an mp3 player (sounds like “empeethree”)
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Other determiners are possessives and quantifiers
all books, all people, all sugar, all money (“all” goes with plural and noncount)
every book, every person (“every” goes with singular count nouns)
each book, each person (“each” goes with singular count nouns)
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p. 107 part 10 - Choose the correct options to complete each sentence. Do you do any of these things to save money? Do you have any other money-saving tips?
1 a
2 your, a
3 the
4 their
5 your
6 -, an
7 all
8 each
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BREAK
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p. 108 part 1 - For one or two of the things you have with/on you right now, answer these questions with your partners.
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Grammar: passive voice
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. (active)
-> The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci. (passive)
passive = [be] + past participle
- Passive can be in every tense and with modals.
	(Remember last week: “This might have been used as a map.”)
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p. 109 part 8 - Complete all the sentences with the correct passive forms of the verbs. Then start again at the beginning and choose the information you think 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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What is an auction?
What is bargaining? Are you good at it?
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Choose something (not your phone) that you have with you right now, which you will “sell” to a classmate. Then go to room 110.
Talk to other classmates (at least three) and try to sell your thing for the highest price you can get. At the same time, try to bargain with classmates for the lowest prices on the things they are selling.
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What techniques did sellers use to try to raise the price?
What techniques did buyers use to try to lower the price?
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Have you ever used eBay?
p. 113 part 1 - Can you find all of this information in the ad?
What information in the add is irrelevant or unnecessary?
It was a gift from my parents.
to a new house and are changing the color scheme. New house is in the country, so we are going to have rustic themed decor.
part 3b - Which of this information could be added to the ad, and where?
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Homework: Write an eBay ad for the item you tried to sell in class today.
	Also: read p. 123 and do p. 122 parts 2, 5, and 6