2017-04-22 Saturday: 8 Weird news

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: read p. 87 and do parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 on p. 86
	Write a paragraph about a typical day when you were a child, using “used to” and “would”.
part 1
1 Atlantic Ocean
2 islands
3 city
4 languages
part 2 - c
part 3
a 3
b 2
c 5
d 4
part 4
1 graceful
2 large and elegant with fountains and stone benches
3 small and immaculate
4 little shop where men meet to swap stories and have a drink
part 5 - Compare your answers with your partner before we check.
1 a town where the main industry is coffee
2 being polite and firendly
3 water inside the house in pipes
4 her husband (the man she loved during her life)
5 islands where their ancestors came from
6 tell each other stories (swap = switch or exchange)
7 news or rumors traveled quickly to many people
8 a kind of art that is being lost and forgotten
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Ireland and Iceland are islands, but all three sound different.
Puerto Rico is made up of several islands. = It consists of several islands.
	= Several islands make Puerto Rico.
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my child = my son or daughter
my childhood = the time when I was a child
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p. 94 “Nature’s mysteries” - What do you think these things are in the pictures?
“aurora borealis” is often called “northern lights”
(On the other side of the planet, they have the aurora australis.)
dew = the water that you can sometimes see on plants and other things in the morning
frost = when the dew is frozen into ice
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Natural science vocabulary:
part 2 - Complete the sentences with words from the box, and guess which picture each word is related to. (You can use a dictionary if you don’t know what a word means.)
1 Nitrogen, oxygen, atmosphere
2 flies, butterflies, insects
3 Radiation
4 Ants, beetles
5 stem
6 Particles
7 Predators, species
8 spikes
spikes, needles, thorns - these are all sharp parts of a plant, but they’re different parts
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part 4 - Listen and decide if each statement is true or false.
1 F
2 T
3 T
4 T
5 F (They can catch insects, but not chase them.)
6 T
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part 6 - What do these sentences mean?
The colors are so vivid that you think they can’t be natural. = You think it’s impossible that they’re natural.
You imagine that they must be man-made. = You imagine that being man-made is the only reasonable explanation.
This might be a painting or a work of art. = It’s possible that it’s a painting.
It may not seem logical, but there are indeed plants that catch insects. = It’s possible that it’s not logical.
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Modals for speculation and deduction (about the present):
“She is very tired.” = I know this for sure from direct information, perhaps because she told me.
“She must be very tired.” = I deduce this from other information, like she just ran a marathon.

“She must not be home. She isn’t answering the door.” = That’s the only explanation that makes sense for why she isn’t answering the door.
“She can’t be home. She just left three minutes ago.” = I think it’s impossible for her to be at home, because she lives too far away.
“She’s not at home. She’s standing right here.” = I know she isn’t at home because of direct information.
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p. 166 practice 1 - Complete the sentences with “must”, “may”, “might”, “could”, or negatives and the correct form of the verb.
1 must be
2 may/might/could be
3 must not live
4 may/might/could have
5 must recognize
6 couldn’t/can’t be (spiders have eight legs)
7 The aurora borealis is unpredictable so we might/may not see (see) any lights tonight.
8 must be coming
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History vocabulary:
p. 96 part 1 - Complete the sentences with the correct words and ask your partner these questions.
1 ancient/sacred
2 period
3 prehistoric
4 century
5 sacred
6 society
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/ - Check how common an English word or phrase is (and was) in books.
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Read the article about the Nazca lines.
astonishing = amazing
Answer the questions in part 4.
What sentences describe possible ideas about the lines? (Which sentences speculate about them?)
The lines must have been part of an astronomical calendar.
They might have been ancient Inca roads or irrigation systems.
They could have been landing strips for alien spacecraft.
Water must have had an incredible significance to these societies, so perhaps the lines were related to it.
The same group of people can’t have created them.
The Nazca lines may have been part of a long tradition of ceremonical activities connected to water and religious beliefs.
There are two more sentences about the people alive at the time:
The Nazca people...couldn’t have seen them from above.
This must have seemed an astonishing, even sacred, phenomenon.
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Modals for speculation and deduction (about the past):
modal + have + past participle
She isn’t answering her door now, so she must not be home.
She wasn’t answering her door yesterday, so she must not have been home.
p. 167 practice 2 - Choose the correct options to complete each sentence.
1 can’t have
2 may have
3 must have
4 might have
5 couldn’t have
6 might have
7 can’t have
8 could have
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Questions about past speculation:
Could I have left it at home? / Might I have forgotten it?
(Questions with “must” are uncommon.)
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On your handout, speculate about what each of these things might have been. Try to reach an agreement about what they must have been.
People might have used this for ___. (active)
This might have been used for ___. (passive)
1 It could have been a stool for a child. People might have used that for show / as decoration.
  It was a pillow for rich people who didn’t want to mess up their hair.
2 It might have been a bracelet. It couldn’t have been a necklace because it’s too small. It probably couldn’t have been an earring because it’s too big.
  It was a brooch (like a pin) to hold clothes.
3 They could have been weapons. They might have been used to make a fire.
  They were a razor and a mirror for shaving.
4 They might have been whistles. They could have been binoculars.
  They were sunglasses or snow goggles.
5 It might have been a compass. It could have been used for fishing. / It could have been used to catch fish.
  It was a map.
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Grammar/Vocabulary: “like” and “as”
“like” and “such as” can give examples
	- This was used in many cultures such as Egypt and the ancient Chinese.
	- They used this to navigate between islands like Fiji and Tonga.
“as” can mean “because”
	- I will sleep late tomorrow as it’s Sunday.
“like” means “similar”, “as” means identity
	- I cried like a baby. = I cried (more recently) similarly to how a baby cries.
	- I cried as a baby. = I cried when I was a baby.
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p. 89 part 6 - Complete the sentences with “as” and “like”
1 As (if the speaker is a life-long resident) / Like (if the speaker is not a life-long resident)
2 like
3 as
4 like
5 Like
6 like
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There is other practice material (especially for grammar and vocabulary) at http://ngllife.com/teacher-resources/extra-practice-activities
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Homework: 7-8 test