2016-05-27 Core: 9 project and ebay listing

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 168 practice 2
2 A car was bought by Rashid last month.
3 Will a new factory be built to create new jobs? (When the agent is “they”, we usually omit “by them”.)
4 Fair-trade crafts are being produced in this village now.
5 Were mp3 players being made last year?
6 The project can’t be completed by the company in less than two years.
7 So many goods will not be bought next year.
  Not so many goods will be bought next year.
8 Borders Books has been sold to B&N to raise money.
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In American English, if the name of a company or group is singular, or plural but the plural name doesn’t refer to the people in the group, we use a singular verb.

Boston is playing against New York. (“Boston” is a singular word for the team.)
The Celtics are playing against the Knicks. (“The Celtics” refer to the players, and we can call each one “a Celtic”.)
Borders Books is being sold. (The name is plural, but “Books” doesn’t refer to the people who work there, so we still use a singular verb.)
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In your groups, design pop-up shops to go somewhere in Boston (not Boston Common). Decide what it will sell, where it will be, what it will look like, and the name.
Draw a picture and decide how you will convince the rest of the class that they should invest in the shop.
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BREAK
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Present your idea to the class.
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What is unique about eBay?
- You can buy and sell your own secondhand products.
- Selling is done by auction.
	Sellers choose a starting bid, and then buyers offer more than that. Whoever offers the most buys the item.

p. 113 part 1 - In pairs, find this information in the eBay ad and explain why each type of information is important to include.
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I love smoothies.
Me too! / I do too. / So do I.

I don’t like smoothies.
Me neither! / I don’t either. / Neither do I.
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part 3a - Cross out the three sentences in the ad which give irrelevant (unimportant) information.
It was a gift from my parents.
Selling because we’re moving to a new house and we’re changing the color scheme.
New house is in the country so we are going to have rustic-themed decor.
part 3b - Which of these sentences could be added to the listing, and where should they go?
1 yes - after “The rug is in used condition.”
2 no
3 yes - after “It has some marks, but otherwise it is in good condition.”
4 no
5 yes - after “Local pickup preferred.”
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If I want to sell something locally, craigslist is a much better website to use.
(Craigslist is only a way for individual people to contact each other if they are interested in buying/selling/renting/hiring, etc. The website doesn’t do anything with money or shipping.)
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p. 114-115 - What are the people doing in the picture? Where do you think they are?
part 2 - Which of these things do you expect to see in the video?
part 3 - Watch the video, and write the number next to the things you see in order.
1 a metal table
2 caftans
3 dates and apricots
4 a man carrying vegetables
5 carpets
6 (some kind of equine, maybe a horse or maybe a donkey)
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“You want to buy a camel for the price of a donkey?” = You want something expensive for a low price?
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Homework: Create an eBay listing for the item that you sold in class yesterday. Make sure you include all the important information from p. 113, and don’t include irrelevant information.
	(Do part 4 on p. 113, basically.)