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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework: Write a list of simple questions that aliens and humans might have when they first meet. Also try to think of at least one miscommunication or misunderstanding they might have.
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- Sunday, 1pm, Broadway Station (Red Line) - St. Patrick’s Day Parade
- Also: SNOW! (15-20cm Sunday and Monday)
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- Questions for Humans to ask Aliens:
- Where are you from? Where do you live?
- How many of you are there?
- How did you know about Earth?
- Tell me about your culture.
- What do you eat?
- How did you get here?
- What do you think about humans?
- Have you ever done experiments on humans?
- Is water necessary for your life?
- Questions for Aliens to ask Humans:
- What is your energy supply?
- How do you reproduce?
- How do you care for Earth?
- Why do you make a wish when you see a shooting star?
- What do you eat?
- What is your greatest technology?
- How can you survive in this environment?
- What do you think about us?
- Why do people kill people?
- Communication Problems (imagine you all speak English):
- - meanings of gestures
- - why humans call them “aliens”
- - aliens don’t understand small/nuclear families
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- With your group, decide who (1 or 2) are aliens and who (1 or 2) are humans. Then plan and practice a conversation that you will have when you meet for the first time. Include questions from both sides, and at least one misunderstanding or miscommunication.
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- BREAK
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- Act out your conversations in front of the class.
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- p. 138-139 - Crossing Antarctica
- Why do you think the women decided to do this?
- What are some problems you think they had during this trip?
- - going to the bathroom
- - food and water (keeping it liquid)
- - the cold (hypothermia and frostbite)
- - communication
- How might they have communicated with the outside world during their trip?
- - use penguins like carrier pigeons
- - smoke signals or fireworks (or flares)
- - satellite phone (with special satellites that are visible only a few hours each day)
- - radio
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- Watch the video once and check your answers.
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- The trip was 2747 km, 94 days. (Liv Arnesen was the first woman to ski solo to the South Pole in 1994. That was a 1200 km trip.)
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- p. 139 part 5 - Watch again and decide if these statements are true or false.
- 1 T
- 2 T
- 3 F (we can still explore ourselves)
- 4 F
- 5 F (they used food)
- 6 F (they used an online journal)
- 7 T
- 8 T (In 2005 they had to abandon their trip for political reasons, and in 2007 one of them got frostbite and they turned back again.)
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- (You can look up Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft online to find more information about them and the expedition company they started together.)
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- An unparalleled trip is a trip that had never been done before (and nothing similar had been done).
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- Homework: Write a report about the conversation you had today between humans and aliens. You are reporting to your leader (a human government or the captain of the ship), so include the most important information. You must use reported speech.
- Alien: How can you live like this?
- -> The alien asked us how we could live like this.
- -> I asked the humans how they could live like that.
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