2016-08-13 Saturday: 3 Water

Greg Malivuk
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“2016-08-13 Saturday: 3 Water”
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Homework: 1-2 test
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p. 33 - What are the women doing? How much water can they carry? How much water do you think you use in a day?
part 2 - With a partner, put the numbers from the box into the correct sentences.
1 70
2 3
3 46
4 10
5 200
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What are some things you could do to use less water? Do you do these things?
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p. 34  - What’s happening in the three pictures?
A People are diving with a shark in the ocean.
B People are rafting in a river.
C A man is swimming in a cenote (a natural pool).

part 1 - With your other partner(s), talk about which places are best for each of the activities in the box.
(Check a dictionary if you don’t know some of the words.)
rapids = part of a river where the water moves quickly (whitewater rapids = the water looks white because of so many bubbles)
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part 4 - Listen and decide if the statements are true or false.
1 T
2 F - They were leaving the rapids and approaching a hippo.
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 F
part 5 - What do you think happened next? Listen and check your guesses.
1 b
2 c
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents - Different places teach different ways to divide the continents.
In most English-speaking countries:
- 7 contents (N. and S. America are separate, Europe and Asia are separate)
- “America” and “American” usually refer specifically to the US and its citizens.
- “The Americas” refers to the land of North and South America
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Grammar: simple past and past continuous
past continuous = was/were + verb(ing)
	(every type of continuous = [be] + verb(ing), where [be] can be any form or tense)

We were going around a small island and we saw a hippo.
“we were going” - past continuous, this action was in progress at the time
“we saw” - simple past, this action “interrupted” the continuous action

We were eating at 7pm. = past continuous: we started eating before 7 and finished after 7, we were in the middle of dinner at 7
We ate at 7pm. = simple past: we started dinner at 7
(We had eaten at 7pm. = past perfect: we finished dinner before 7)
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Conjunctions for simple past and past continuous:
I was eating when you called.
You called while I was eating. / You called when I was eating. (less common)
	“while” = “during the same time”, for something that takes some time
I didn’t answer the phone because I was driving.
I was driving, so I didn’t answer the phone.

p. 35 part 10 - Write sentences using simple past and past continuous, with “when”, “while”, “because”, and “so” (use each conjunction once)
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. (/ he didn’t hold on.)
3 I saw some strange fish while I was diving. (/ when I was diving.)
4 I was having some problems with my mask, so my brother helped me. (/ I had some problems…)
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when + clause is similar to at + time:
I cooked dinner when she got home. = I started cooking at the time she arrived.
I was cooking dinner when she got home. = I was in the middle of cooking at the time she arrived.
I had cooked dinner when she got home. = I finished cooking before she arrived.
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p. 36 - What do you know about the Titanic? (The ship, not the movie.)
Read the article.
part 1 - Which of these questions go before each paragraph?
1 b
2 a
3 d

I’d asked people to treat the Titanic’s remains with dignity. Instead, they’d turned her into a freakshow.
I had asked…. Instead, they had turned….
(“would” + base form, “had” + past participle)
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Timeline:
1912 - Titanic sailed and sank.
1960s - Two nuclear submarines disappeared.
1985 - Ballard found the Titanic.
2004 - He returned to the shipwreck.
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Grammar: past perfect - for things that happened before another time in the past
“I’d asked people to treat the remains with dignity.” - When did he ask this? 1985
“They’d turned her into a freakshow.” - When did they do this? Between 1985 and 2004.
He is talking about his feelings in 2004 when he says these sentences. 2004 is the past, so things that happened before that are past perfect.

“Nearby I saw a pair of smaller shoes that had perhaps belonged to a child.”
“I saw” - 2004
“had perhaps belonged” - 1912
Talking about 2004, so things before 2004 are in the past perfect.

“We realized we were celebrating at a place where people had died.”
realize - 1985
celebrate - 1985 (at the same time)
die - 1912
Talking about 1985, so things before 1985 are in the past perfect.
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p. 37 part 7 - Choose the correct options to complete the sentences.
1 had been
2 sank
3 was
4 had disappeared
5 hadn’t located (other techniques from before hadn’t located it, so in 1985 they developed video technology)
6 had visited

When the ambulance arrived at the hospital, the patient was already dead.
	being dead was true at the same time the ambulance arrived
When the ambulance arrived at the hospital, the patient had already died.
	dying happened before the ambulance arrived
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part 8 - Use the past perfect to answer these questions (with information from the article or your own ideas).
1 A man had lost control of the ship. / They hadn’t seen the iceberg soon enough.
2 They hadn’t put enough lifeboats on the ship.
3 People had turned the ship into a freak show.
4 They had watched the movie and thought it was a romantic place.
5 He had seen images of it and wanted to see it for himself. / He had decided to make a movie about it.
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You have a list of 5 unusual situations. I will give the answer for each situation to one person in your group. Then ask yes/no questions to that person to try to figure out the explanation.
Clue (for 2 and 3): All of these are related to water in some way.
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These types of puzzles are called lateral thinking puzzles (you can find more in websites and books).
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p. 41
More “interesting” words to use in writing:
pouring = raining very hard
packed = very crowded
staring = looking with a lot of focus
clutching = holding very tightly
boiling = very hot
collapsed = fell suddenly and without control
exhausted = very tired
raced = run fast
scrambled = climbed quickly
wandered = walked slowly without a specific destination
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Homework: Write a “blog” post about something you did on a previous weekend (real or fake), following the instructions in parts 5 and 6 on p. 41
	Read p. 51 and do p. 50 parts 2, 3, 4, 6