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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- p. 33 - What are the women doing? How much water can they collect? How much water do you think you use in a day (including showering, washing your clothes, flushing the toilet, and so on)?
- part 2 - how do we say these first numbers? one-fifth, two-thirds
- Complete the sentences with the numbers you think are correct.
- 1 70
- 2 3
- 3 46
- 4 10
- 5 200
- What percent of freshwater is frozen? (68.6%, and 30.1% is groundwater)
- gray water - water that has already been used to wash something (it’s gray because of the soap and dirt in it), but which is still fine for using in a toilet or watering plants
- drought - a period of time with very little or no rain
- flood - when there’s too much water on the ground and it goes in places it shouldn’t be
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- p. 34-35 - what are the people doing in the pictures? Where are they?
- cenote - a lake in a big hole in the ground, like an open cave
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- p. 34 parts 2-3 - with a partner decide where the best place is to do each activity, and tell your partner if you do or have done any of the activities
- pond - a small lake
- parts 4-5 - listen to the stories and answer the questions
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- Most adverbs are formed with adjective+ly: usually, suddenly, quickly, surprisingly, usefully, normally
- Some are the same as the adjective: hard, fast, early, late, hourly, daily, monthly, yearly
- (The rest are not related to specific adjectives: never, always, sometimes, very, often, somewhat, today, tomorrow, however)
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- BREAK
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- Past Continuous:
- continuous/progressive = [be] + verb(ing)
- past continuous = was/were + verb(ing)
- - It means an action continued for some time in the past (especially when another time or action happens in the middle).
- I ate dinner last night. (It happened, it finished, nothing else happened to interrupt it. = simple past)
- I was eating dinner last night when you called me.
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- p. 35 part 6
- We were going around a small island.
- It jumped into the water. (This happened quickly, so we use simple past.)
- (He was hitting his brother. - repeated continuously, so we use past continuous)
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- What were you doing when you broke your arm?
- I was surfing. (I broke my arm in the middle of this activity. I started surfing before I broke my arm.)
- What did you do when you broke your arm?
- I called 9-1-1 to get an ambulance. (I did this after and in reaction to breaking my arm.)
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- I broke my arm while I was surfing. = I was surfing when I broke my arm.
- (they happened at the same time, but there may not be any connection)
- I broke my arm because I was surfing in a dangerous place.
- = I was surfing in a dangerous place, so I broke my arm. (strange, it looks like I decided to break my arm)
- I went inside because it was raining. = It was raining, so I went inside.
- (“so” and “because” explain cause and effect)
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- p. 35 part 10 - use the correct verb form and conjunctions to complete the sentences
- 1 I was taking a photo of the hippo when I dropped my camera in the water.
- 2 My friend fell out of the raft because he wasn’t holding on.
- 3 I saw some strange fish while I was diving.
- 4 I was having / I had some problems with my mask so my brother helped me.
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- Twenty Questions: you ask (up to 20) yes or no questions to figure out what the other person is thinking
- Think of the first time you tried a new hobby or activity. (Remember what was happening at the time, what you did in the activity, what happened after.)
- Your two partners will ask you yes/no questions about the activity (“Were you in the ocean? Were you scared? Did you have a good time?”) and try to guess what activity you’re thinking about.
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- Spelling rules for -ing
- walk -> walking
- study -> studying (we don’t change ‘y’ to ‘ie’ in this case)
- live -> living (if the verb ends with a silent -e: “seeing” and “being” are not silent)
- run -> running, swim -> swimming, stop -> stopping (verb ends with -CVC and the vowel has stressed pronunciation and the word doesn’t end in -w, -x, or -y)
- begin -> beginning
- (open -> opening, because the stress is on the ‘o’, not the ‘e’)
- die -> dying, lie -> lying (-ie changes to -y)
- (ski -> skiing)
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- What do you know about the Titanic? (The ship, not the movie.)
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- A ship is bigger than a boat. (You can put a boat on a ship, but not the other way around.)
- bow: the front (fore) of a ship or boat
- stern: the back (aft) of a ship or boat
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- Homework: page 36 - read the article and do parts 1 and 2
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