2015-09-22 Core: 11 uncontacted tribes

Greg Malivuk
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“2015-09-22 Core: 11 [topic]”
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p. 129 - Where do you think these people live?
Why does the description say the language was “discovered”? (Why the quotation marks?)
part 1 - what section of a newspaper do you think would have this article?
part 2 - with a partner, think of different ways to complete each sentence (at least one must be true for you)
1 I can quickly check what happens in my country.
  I have an idea about Turkish news.
  I try to make sure to read them every day.
2 old-fashioned / long / boring / big and inconvenient
3 sometimes it’s not true. / it’s untrustworthy. / journalism these days is very political.
  stories are written to sell papers, not to keep us informed.
4 my team lost the game. / something important is in national news.

We will sit outside even though it’s raining. (Normally when it’s raining we would be inside. But right now it is raining and we will sit outside anyway.)
We will sit outside tomorrow even if it’s raining. (I don’t know yet whether it will rain.)

If I had more money, I would buy a car. (But I don’t have money so I won’t buy a car.)
Even if I had more money, I wouldn’t buy a car. (I don’t have money, but I’m not going to buy a car in any situation, with or without money.)
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p. 130 part 1 - Where might uncontacted tribes exist? What might threaten them?
bore (v), boring/bored (adj), boredom (n)

nomad = a person who moves from place to place as a way of life

logging = cutting down and transporting trees (in order to use the wood)

footage = video (as in, recording a number of feet of film, on an old-fashioned movie camera)

viral (adj) = to describe images or videos that quickly become very popular (especially on the Internet), similar to the way that a virus spreads throughout a population

You have rights and responsibilities as a citizen.
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part 2 - what role did each of these groups play in the story? (what did they do?)
1 FUNAI released photos of an “uncontacted” Amazonian tribe.
2 Survival International said the photos were genuine.
3 The government of Peru first did nothing because they believed the photos were political strategy, but then they announced that they would work with the Brazilian government to stop illegal logging.
4 The BBC showed a documentary about the tribe.
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p. 131 Wordbuilding: prefix “un-”
uncontacted: without any contact with other people (people haven’t contacted them)
unseen: not seen (people haven’t seen it)
unspoken: people don’t talk about it (There are many unspoken rules in every society.)
unusual: not usual
unacceptable: not acceptable
uncomfortable: not comfortable
(inescapable, invaluable, invisible, incomprehensible, etc.)
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p. 131 part 5 - what were the exact words used by the people in the highlighted sentences from the article?
1 FUNAI said that the tribe was under threat because of the logging.
-> FUNAI said, “The tribe is under threat because of the logging.”
2 People asked if the tribe was truly “uncontacted”.
-> People asked, “Is the tribe truly uncontacted?”
3 Survival International said that they were confident that the photos were genuine.
-> Survival International said, “We are confident that the photos are genuine.”

Yesterday, she said, “I will not be in class tomorrow.”
-> Yesterday, she said that she would not be in class today.

Last week, she said, “I will not be in class tomorrow.”
Last week, she said that she would not be in class the next day.

She said, “You need to help him.”
She said that I/you/we/they/he/she needed to help me/you/him.
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Statements (affirmative or negative): use “that” for reported speech (note: “that” is optional)
He said, “I live in Boston.” -> He said that he lived in Boston.

Yes/No questions: use “if” or “whether” for reported speech
He asked me, “Do you live in Boston?” -> He asked me if/whether I lived in Boston.

Information questions: use the same “wh-” word that’s used in the question
He asked me, “Where do you live?” -> He asked me where I lived.
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He said, “I watched that movie yesterday.”
-> He said that he had watched that movie the day before.

He said, “I have watched that movie before.”
-> He said that he had watched that movie before.
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1 David Hill explained that his organization wasn’t suggesting that the tribe had never had any contact with the outside world.
2 The Peruvian government suggested that the story was no more than a strategy by groups opposed to development.
3 Survival International said the images had spread across the world within minutes.
4 A typical post asked why nobody had done anything to save these tribes.
5 The Peruvian government announced that they would work with the Brazilian authorities.
6 But as a FUNAI spokesperson said later, one image had had more impact than one thousand reports.
p. 131 part 7 - What exact words did the people above say?
1 “My organization isn’t suggesting that the tribe has never had any contact with the outside world.”
2 “The story is no more than a strategy by groups opposed to development.”
3 “The images spread across the world within minutes.”
4 “Why has nobody done anything to save these tribes?” / “Why hasn’t anybody done…?”
5 “We will work with the Brazilian authorities.”
6 “One image has had more impact than one thousand reports.”
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Homework: p. 131 parts 8 and 9