2015-11-21 Saturday: Living spaces

Greg Malivuk
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“2015-11-21 Saturday: Living Spaces”
This is the same level and book as the “Core” class.
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Other homework: Write a paragraph describing the food you bring to someone who isn’t familiar with your country’s cuisine. Also read about caffeine on p. 75 and answer 3, 4, 5 on p. 74.
part 3
1 chocolate
2 drug
3 energy
4 food, drinks
5 sleep cycle
part 4
makes you more alert
relieves pain
reduces asthma symptoms
increases reaction speed

is habit-forming (i.e. addictive)
raises blood pressure
increases the risk of heart disease
part 5
1 People work by the clock now, not by the sun.
2 Electric light and caffeine.
3 The body doesn’t function at its best.
4 People need caffeine because they don’t get enough sleep, and they don’t get enough sleep because they drink caffeine. (vicious cycle)
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Unit 7 - Living space

Do you still live in the house where you grew up? Do/Did you have a favorite room in that house?
p. 81 part 3 - Answer these questions with a partner. (Also tell why that is your favorite room.)
p. 82 part 1 - Did you have these things in your house growing up? Would you want to have them in a house or apartment you buy or build?
(What is the difference between a balcony, a porch, and a terrace? What about a garden and a yard?)
What other things are necessary for your future housing?
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p. 83 part 8 - listen to the people talking about their homes. which speaker talks about each thing?
cleanliness - 4
housework - 4
maintenance - 2
neighbors - 3
noise - 3
price - 1, 2
size - (none)
space - (none)
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What are the advantages of a house (over an apartment)?
- there’s a yard
- you don’t have noise from your neighbors
- more space
- more freedom to make changes
- you can make more noise
Advantages of an apartment over a house?
- less work to take care of
- cheaper
- less responsibility
- more security
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safety = you aren’t going to get hurt
security = no one is going to enter or take things from your house
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Grammar: Comparatives and Superlatives

comparatives (between 2): He is taller than everyone else in the room.
superlatives (with more than 2): He is the tallest person in the room.

He is taller than I am.
I am not as tall as he is.

He is much taller than I am. = there is a big difference
I am not nearly as tall as he is.

He is a little taller than I am. = there is a small difference
I am not quite as tall as he is. = I am almost as tall as he is.
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He is an old man. = He is 60 or older (and looks old).
He is an older man. = He is older than I am, or he is older than average.
(For this reason, words like “older” and “heavier” are more polite than “old” and “heavy” or “fat”.)

Boston is cheaper than New York, but Boston is not cheap.
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NYC is more crowded than Boston.
NYC is not as cold as Boston.
The MTA is more confusing than the MBTA.
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- adjectives with more than 2 syllables are compared with “more” or “less”
- 2-syllable adjectives have -er if the last syllable is just -y or -le (happier, simpler, more crowded)
- past participle adjectives never have -er (we say “more bored”, not “boreder”)
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p. 83 part 7 - Rewrite the sentences using the words in parentheses, and starting 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 inside as you might think.
4 New houses are (getting/becoming) more and more expensive every year.
5 My tent is the best in camp.
6 This house is the oldest.
7 A house on stilts survives more easily in floods.
  A house on stilts more easily survives in floods.
8 You can put up a ger more quickly than a brick house.
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How do you think Boston has changed over the last 300 years? (in full sentences)
Boston has more skyscrapers than before.
The people have a better quality of life now.
Boston is more crowded than before.
Boston was greener than now.
http://www.doak.ws/1722MapOfBostonJohnBonner.jpg - large, good-quality map of Boston in 1722
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calque = a new word in one language that is just a direct translation from another language
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“used to” for things about the past that aren’t true now

Boston used to be greener.
People have a better quality of life than they used to.
Boston used to be much smaller than it is now.
Back Bay used to be a bay.

Boston didn’t use to be as crowded as it is now.
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My grandparents used to live near here. (Now they don’t live near here.)

My grandparents didn’t use to live far away. (Now they live far away.)
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I used to play in the park every day when I was a child.
= I would play in the park every day when I was a child. - past repeated action
(If it’s not a repeated action, we can’t use “would” to talk about it in the past.)

“used to” doesn’t need to be an action, and it can be something that was true for a long time instead of repeated
“used to” must be the opposite now of what it was in the past
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p. 85 part 9 - Rewrite the sentences with “used to”, if it is correct to do so.
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 no change - the early residents don’t live anywhere now, so “didn’t use to” is incorrect
4 People used to hunt beavers for their skins.
5 no change - it only happened once
6 What originally used to be in the area where Fifth Avenue is now.
What used to be here originally?
*What used to be in the area where Fifth Avenue is now originally? (awkward and confusing)
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p. 85 part 11 - Complete the sentences with information that is true about you, and tell your partners. Compare what you were all like when you were children.
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Homework: 6-7 test