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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
- (This is the Core class.)
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- Homework: p. 38 parts 2, 3, 4, 5 (about the reading on p. 39)
- part 2
- 1 He almost died because he went swimming during a storm and couldn’t get back to the beach.
- 2 He respects the sea now, so he is more careful about when he goes swimming. He doesn’t go to the sea “when she does not want [him]”.
- part 3
- 1 two (more or less)
- 2 afraid
- 3 stop
- 4 It was difficult for me.
- 5 stop swimming
- 6 quickly
- part 4
- 1 He decided to swim despite the storm, so he had to fight against the sea
- He decided to call it a day and turn back, but he realized that he couldn’t get to the beach.
- He decided to let go and give up the fight, and he was carried to the shore and scrambled to safety.
- 2 He describes the sea as mother, sister, and home. He describes it in a romantic way.
- 3 He thinks it’s his fault (as a fisherman) that there are no fish to see.
- part 5
- 1 It’s dangerous during storm season (but not normally).
- 2 T (then F) - “In a moment of Catalan bravado”, he did something he knew was crazy.
- 3 T
- 4 maybe F - “Every time I think about it, my heart races and my guts jump to my throat.”
- 5 T
- doom - your final judgment (by God), your ultimate fate (death)
- doomsday = judgment day (the end of the world)
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- “get” can mean many different things
- The primary general meanings are:
- “become” - get sick, get in, get out, get married, get divorced, get away
- (“arrive” - get to, as in “How do I get to the bank”, get back, get home)
- “obtain” - I need to get some money from the ATM.
- p. 38 part 6 - find the expressions with “get” that have the same meaning as these sentences
- 1 I got in the pool. (I got into the pool.)
- 2 The weather didn’t get better. / The weather got worse.
- 3 I couldn’t get to the shore.
- 4 I wasn’t getting closer to the land.
- (If you move towards something, you get closer to it.)
- 5 We get so much from nature.
- 6 I’d gotten away from that dangerous situation. (I’d gotten out of that dangerous situation.)
- beach/bitch, sheet/shit, cheap/chip, sheep/ship, heel/hill, wheel/will, meet/mitt, seat/sit
- https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/minimal-pairs-i-ee.htm
- http://www.slideshare.net/cjq11983/minimal-pairs-ee-and-i
- (These are called “minimal pairs”, because they are pairs of words that differ by the minimum amount, which is a single sound.)
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- p. 39 part 8 - tell your partners about an unforgettable (maybe dangerous, maybe not) experience you have had or read about (make sure you explain the information in the list in part 8)
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- forget = not remember any more
- forgive = accept an apology and give someone another chance after they did something wrong
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- BREAK
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- p. 37 part 9 - in pairs, complete the paragraph with the correct form of the verbs (simple past or past perfect)
- 1 was
- 2 began
- 3 had discovered
- 4 felt
- 5 had sunk
- 6 hit (...in 1671 when they hit rocks - “when they hit rocks” gives information about 1671)
- 7 had already made
- 8 retired
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- p. 37 part 10 - in groups of four, follow the instructions to solve the lateral thinking puzzles
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- Where does Friday come before Thursday and Thursday come before Wednesday?
- (Also, jueves comes before miercoles.)
- Answer: in a (paper) dictionary / in alphabetical order
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- (Moon Day, Tiu’s Day, Woden’s Day, Thor’s Day, Freya’s Day, Saturn’s Day, Sun Day)
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- p. 40 part 1 - Tell your group if these statements are true for you, and why
- part 2 - which group of words is probably from a story about the picture?
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- Homework: p. 159 practice 1 and p. 160 practice 2
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