Extending life through Fun

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Unit 12

• Extending life through Fun
• (II)

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Part I Warming up

• A. Two people talking about two kinds of animals
• Vocabulary
• affectionate loving and tender.
• curl up shape one's body into a curl
• to assume a position with the legs drawn
  up
• The child curled up in an armchair to read.
• revolting highly offensive arousing disgust
  "revolting food"
• slimy covered with a thick sticky slippery
  substance
• "a slimy substance covered the rocks

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• Task A1 A2. Listen and guess what animals they
  are talking about
• What animals are they?
• What words did you hear that helped to draw the
  conclusions?
• little things / playful /affectionate/ play with
  toy mouse / sleep in their baskets / clean
  animals
• kittens /cats.
• 2. revolting / slimy / poisonous / colors and
  patterns beautiful
• snakes

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B. Hobbies

• photograph v. to take photographs
• riot a wild or turbulent disturbance created by
  a large number of people
• exhilaration the feeling of lively and cheerful
  joy
• gallop to ride a horse at a gallop
• prior to before

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Listen carefully and guess what the hobbies are

• B.1. Guess what hobbies they are
• B2. Write down some of the clues that help you to
  decide the answers
• Photography
• photograph/ still life / moving object /
  feel equipment
• 2. Skiing
• amazing / sport /equipment/ safer / scenery/
  air / speed / exhilaration

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• 3. horse riding
• powerful animal / relationship of trust/
  skill/
• walk / gallop
• 4. bird watching
• 6,500 species / looking birds
• 5. Sailing
• force of wind/ complicated / boats/ navigation
  / essential skills

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C. Read the difficult sentences and Listen
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Part II New Fashions

• A program about barbecue
• (Training focus Note taking)

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A social gathering, usually held outdoors, at
which food is cooked over an open flame
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grill n.a cooking surface of parallel metal
bars. v.to broil on a gridiron
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charcoal a carbonaceous material obtained by
heating wood or other organic matter in the
absence of air

• cavemen A prehistoric or primitive human living
  in caves
• spice Any of various pungent, aromatic plant
  substances, such as cinnamon or nutmeg, used to
  flavor foods or beverages

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chile

• The pungent fresh or dried fruit of any of
  several cultivated varieties of capsicum, used
  especially as a flavoring in cooking. Also called
  chili pepper

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rib cut of meat including one or more ribs
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• potluck a meal at which each guest brings food
  that is then shared by all. Also called potluck
  supper
• macho used of men markedly masculine in
  appearance or manner

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Listen carefully and take notes and answer the
questions

• 1. Why do men in the West like barbecue?
• put meat on the grill cavemen
• 2. What is the unique thing about barbecue?
• different recipes / different places

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• 3. What is potluck?
• party / everyone brings food

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• 4. Whats it like in Britain when people have a
  barbecue?
• watch the sky / rain

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B. A report about making pottery

• pottery Ware, such as vases, pots, bowls, or
• plates, shaped from moist clay and hardened by
• heat

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B1 Listen to the first part of the report. Supply
the missing words

• faster and faster
• more and more rich
• relax
• free time
• making pottery

• artists and craftsmen
• common people
• a pottery teacher
• playing with mud
• your creation
• turning and forming
• calm
• Troubles

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making pottery
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• Chrysanthemum

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canister a small plastic container used for
storing a roll of film.

• sculpt to sculpture / shape (an object)
• kaolin a fine usually white clay
• kiln A large stove or oven a furnace of brick
  or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of
  hardening, burning, or drying anything as, a
  kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels

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turntable a circular horizontal rotating platform

• glaze the vitreous coating of pottery or
  porcelain anything used as a coating or color in
  glazing
• throw to shape (an object) on a potters wheel

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B2. Listen to 2nd half of the report and put the
pottery making steps in the right order.

• Mixing the clay
• Putting the clay on the turntable
• Throwing
• Drying for a few days
• Smoothing or rounding the edges
• Polishing 7. Sculpting
• 8. Cooling for 3 or 4 days
• 9. Going to the kiln to fire the clay
• 10. Painting with glaze
• 11. Firing again

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Part III

• Rock climbing

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• rugged having a rough irregular surface
• spine a ridge
• prairie a meadow or tract of grass
• craggy rugged and uneven a craggy face
• creek a small stream, often a shallow or
  intermittent tributary to a river
• sedimentary limestone a common sedimentary rock
  consisting mostly of calcium carbonate, CaCO3,
  used as a building stone and in the manufacture
  of lime, carbon dioxide, and cement

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grizzly bear

• The brown bear of northwest North America, now
  considered a subspecies

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• piton ??????
• spike to drive something long and thin with a
• sharp point into
• rafter any of a large sloping esp. wooden beams
  that hold up a roof
• n.?, ??
• rappel ????
• sling to cause to hang or be loosely supported
• crack a line of division caused by splitting
  very thin mark or opening caused by breaking, but
  not into separate parts

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• toe-/hand hold ??
• Integral necessary to complete something which
  cannot be left out.

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A. Pre-listening Questions

• Have you every tried rock climbing? Would you be
  interested in practicing this sport? Why or why
  not?
• What sports do you consider physically
  challenging?
• When practicing a difficult or dangerous sport,
  what mental or emotional challenges do you have
  to be prepared for?
• When a person is devoted to a sport, how does it
  affect his life?
• Would you consider rock climbing a dangerous
  sport? What is required to be a good rock climber?

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Listen carefully and answer the questions in note
form

• 1. Why has the Province of Alberta become home
  to some of the best rock climbers in the world?
• the Rockies / over 12,000 feet
• 2. Why are the Canadian Rockies very special?
• a lot of wilderness / grizzly bear

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• 3. How high is First Rock? How does it compare
  with other climbs Blanchard often does?
• First Rock 25 meters / others 50 times as
  high
• 4, What is the purpose of the climbing equipment?
• attach rock to rope / rope to body
• 5. How did Blanchard first learn to climb? Where
  did he do his first climbing?
• reading / around house, i.e., basement rafters,
  walls
• 6. How important is rock climbing in Blanchards
  life?
• an integral part of his life / challenges /
  opportunities