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Don't wake up in a roadside ditch!

Today we:

watched a youtube video
did A9 in the cognates handout
listened to some very interesting presentations (thanks to Pijou, Carles, and Ramon) on:

• how to calcutate the sum of a series
• why banks don't really have your money,
• the diversity of European languages

wrote a definition to the word pimp (chulo), alternate verb form: "pimp your ride"
the verb primp: "quit primping! we're late!"
did a CAE listening about kites

HW:

Angels and Xavi--presentations if possible
add 6 lines to your Ben & Gus script
read the other script (with 3 characters)
do A10 from the cognate handout

Welcome back from Spring Break!

Today we:
Practiced the script from last time (our friends Ben and Gus)
Finished the cognate packet (A8)
Did pages 62 and 63 in the book (SB 6A)--formal/informal comparisons
Please tell me if I left something out...

HW:
add 6 lines to the script
read the new script I gave you today

Next class:
Short presentations: Pijo, Angels, Ramon
CAE listening
Book: finish 6A, start 6B
Script practice
New cognate handout and reference
Phone conversation (from In Company Upper book)

Note: in the beginning, from the beginning, at the beginning vs from the start

What are "droppings"? and other vocabulary

The feces of animals often have special names. For example:

• Non-human animals generally –
  • As bulk material – dung
  • Individually – droppings
• Cattle –
  • Bulk material – cow dung
  • Individual droppings – cow pats, meadow muffins etc.
• Deer (and formerly other quarry animals) – fewmets.
• Wild carnivores – scat.
• Otter – spraint.
• Birds (individual) – droppings (also include urine as white crystals of uric acid).
• Bats (large accumulations) – guano.
• Herbivorous insects, such as caterpillars and leaf beetles – frass.
• Earthworms – worm castings (feces extruded at ground surface).
• Feces when used as fertilizer (usually mixed with animal bedding and urine) – manure.
• Horses – horse manure, roadapple

pet peeves	cosas que me molestan
leftovers	sobras
brain	cerebro
droppings	excrementos
generosity	generosidad

widow (woman)
widower (man)

7/3 Audio Notes Gabriel, Andreu

Notebook 2 p. 11
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Nukemap, an atom bomb simulator

Nuclear warheads are terrifying weapons due to their mind-blowing destructive power. As we saw a few weeks ago, they come in two main versions: (1) fission bombs (i.e., they break heavy nucleus--uranium 235 or plutonium 239--to get their energy from) and (2) fusion bombs (i.e., they fuse lightweight atoms--deuterium or tritium--to get their energy from). To depict the devastating effects of these weapons of mass destruction Alex Wellerstein has created the Nukemap simulator. I recommend playing with it--it is a google maps application with a simple graph extension; really easy to use--to get the scale of the destruction. First select Barcelona as the wasted city, and choose "Little Boy" as the bomb. You can see the effects of the bomb that blow up Hiroshima over Barcelona (it had "only" 16 kt of TNT). This is the typical fission bomb. We can go much further; we can obliterate, not only the city of Barcelona, but everything near it. To do so choose Barcelona again and "W-59 Minuteman I". This is the typical fusion bomb (in fact it is not much of a challenge for a weapon of its kind, that is, just 1 mt of TNT). See the difference among them? Now imagine having, not a mere W-59, but the fearsome 100 mt Zar Bomba.

Notice that this simulator does not has fallout effects into account so, real destruction would be even bigger.

Everything is bigger in Texas

Today:
Presentation by Gabriel
Cognate handouts
Talking about the past with the help of a sketch

HW:
finish cognate photocopies
Harper's index:  choose 4 or 5 statistics and interpret them