Devonport trip

 

 

Gabe’s Magical Secret Devonport Walk

Let me show you my favourite walk in Auckland. Lots of nice things to see and enjoy. We will walk for about AN HOUR! Just so you know.

 

Cost of ferry trip (AT Hop):

$5.50 each way

 

Leave School at 4pm

Catch 4.30pm ferry to Devonport

Catch 6.45 ferry back to the city

 

What to bring:

Good walking shoes

Dress for the weather

Camera

Water

 

$$ for an ice cream or a pizza at Mecca on the wharf, if we have time.

Speaking in front of a group

What are each of these elements of pronunciation? Match them with the examples below.

1. vocal projection
2. intonation
3. pitch variation
4. pacing, rhythmic variation
5. clarity and consistency
6. pausing
7. individual sounds
8. syllable stress
9. word stress
10. additional stress for emphasis


a. It is clear whether something is meant as a question or a statement, certain or uncertain, or whether something is more or less important.
b. The speaker has a presence and holds your attention.
c. The speaker especially highlights words, phrases or whole sentences which contain key ideas.
d. The speaker focuses attention on the key words.
e. The speaker deliberately speeds up and slows down their speech to convey their thought processes and feelings.
f. The words of the speaker can be clearly distinguished.
g. The speaker marks the spaces between units of speech, clauses and sentences with appropriate degrees of emphasis.
h. The speaker uses a range of high to low vocal frequencies to support their words and ideas.
i. The speaker knows which parts of a word to emphasise and which not to.
j. The listener doesn't have to make an effort to follow everything that is said.

Using a text to work at your pronunciation.


Individual sounds

It's really important to notice which sounds in English are most unnatural for you as a non-native speaker. In pronunciation books there are actually lists of these difficult sounds related to your first language. As you read English texts, try highlighting those unnatural sounds with symbols to remind yourself that they're there. This way you're slowly integrating those sounds into your spoken English.

Intonation, rhythm, pausing and stress.

When reading silently, / pause /  imagine a NATIVE SPEAKER / reading the text out LOUD. / pause / Notice how HARD the speaker WORKS to conVEY the MEANing of the WRITTEN TEXT. After READing and iMAGining a text as SPOKEN LANGuage, try reading it ALOUD / pause /  paying as MUCH atTENtion as POSSible to how it SOUNDS. / pause / It EVEN helps to EXAGGERATE a bit, / pause /  so that you get INTO the SPIRIT of the IDEAS beHIND the WORDS.

Weinstein's Hitlist

Harvey Weinstein had secret hitlist of names to _____ sex scandal

Harvey Weinstein

highlight     targeted     unequivocally denies     had broken    come forward  apparently    quash    secret    high-profile    appears to     compiled   misconduct   undisclosed     on condition     allegedly    covertly    pestered  tranche    It is unclear whether      settlements     It is a fiction

relayed

Producer hired team to investigate 91 film industry figures in attempt to stop harassment claims going public

The Observer has gained access to a secret hitlist of almost 100 prominent individuals targeted by Harvey Weinstein in an extraordinary attempt to discover what they knew about sexual misconduct claims against him and whether they were intending to go public.

The previously  ________ list contains a total of 91 actors, publicists, producers, financiers and others working in the film industry, all of whom Weinstein _______ identified as part of a strategy to prevent accusers from going public with sexual  _______ claims against him.

The names,  ________ drawn up by Weinstein himself, were distributed to a team hired by the film producer to suppress claims that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women.

 An extract from Harvey Weinstein’s hitlist.

The document was  _________ in early 2017, around nine months before the storm that blew up on 5 October when the New York Times published a series of sexual harassment allegations against Weinstein.

Individuals named on the list were to be targeted by investigators who would  ________ extract and accumulate information from those who might know of claims or who might come forward with allegations against the film producer. Feedback was then to be  _______ to Weinstein and his lawyers.

The size of the list – 85 names appear on one document, with an addendum identifying another six individuals – __________ corroborate claims that sexual misconduct allegations against the 65-year-old were an open _______ throughout Hollywood.

Prominent stars were among the first  _______ of individuals on the list to testify publicly against Weinstein. Among those named were the actress Rose McGowan, who days after speaking out accused the producer of raping her. Another was Laura Madden, who told how Weinstein  _______ her for massages at hotels in Dublin and London, beginning in 1991. McGowan and Madden were among the first to speak out against Weinstein last month.

A typed note on the document appears to suggest that by February 2016, Madden had already been  _________ by one of Weinstein’s hired investigators. Her view of the producer is, says the note, “very bitter”.

Another name is Zelda Perkins, a London-based production assistant for Weinstein’s Miramax film company, who left the firm’s London offices on Brewer Street in Soho in 1998 after, she says, enduring years of sexual harassment by her boss. Last month Perkins revealed that she _______  a confidentiality agreement to describe alleged sexual harassment by the Hollywood producer.

Also on the list is the English actress Sophie Dix, who has described how her career trajectory was “massively cut down” after an alleged sexual assault by Weinstein in a London hotel and who was among the first to ________.

Sophie Dix

More than 50 of the names have been coloured red to ______ those who should be prioritised by investigators – individuals Weinstein most keenly wanted to target. The names of the actresses McGowan, Dix and Madden are all coloured red.

________ Weinstein intended subsequently to approach any of the individuals on the list with a non-disclosure agreement. Evidence has emerged which shows that over the past three decades Weinstein reached at least eight ________ with women, according to two company officials speaking _______ of anonymity, after he was confronted with allegations including sexual harassment and unwanted physical contact.

Weinstein “_________” all claims of non-consensual sex, a spokesman for the producer has said. The spokesman dismissed reports that the producer hired spies to stop claims, saying: “_________ to suggest that any individuals were targeted or suppressed at any time.”

The producer’s alleged targets were often young, aspiring actresses. Among the _______ names who have spoken out against Weinstein are Angelina Jolie, Cara Delevingne and Kate Beckinsale.

(extracts from the Observer)

https://quizlet.com/nz/854674912/harvey-weinsteins-hitlist-flash-cards/?new

Back to the board

Scandal

 

 

High-profile

 

 

 

Fiction

 

 

 

Unclear

 

 

 

Misconduct

 

 

 

Harass

 

 

 

Supress

 

 

 

Numerous

 

 

 

Allegation

 

 

Bitter

 

Subsequent

 

 

Non-consensual

 

 

To dismiss

 

 

Priority

 

 

Aspiring

The Hidden Life of Trees

Trees are people too. Or at least they can act like them says German forrester Peter Wohlleben.

He says long before Facebook, trees established social networks to send  warnings about danger along electrical impulses in their roots. Call it the world wide wood. 

Trees help each other when they're sick. Wohllenben has spent his life working in forests and writes about the latest research and his observations  in his book, The Hidden Lives of Trees: What They Feel How They Communicate-Discoveries From a Secret World.

Listen:

The Hidden Life of Trees


1. According to Peter, trees are i__________t and s_________l

2. Peter used to know as much about trees as a _______ knows about the ________ life of animals.

3. Peter says trees are like ________ but they grow more ______

4. Trees can remember heavy _______

5. They are able to _______ the next generation.

6. When you cut the roots of a tree you cutting ________ structures

7. They can't ________ without these roots

8. City trees are like ________

9. City trees grow _________

10. The mother tree needs to provide ____ for its children to stop them ______ too fast.

11. _______ is the key to a long life.

12. Trees have to __________

13. When trees are asleep they _____ their branches _____

14. Humans also can't _____ with lights on

15. Trees can send out _____ to warn other trees of attacks.

16. Trees can send ____________ to communicate with other trees through fungi.

17. Fungis need to get ______ from trees.

18. ____________ compress the soil which kills the _____________

19. One solution to this problem is to use ________ in the forest.

20. Peter's forest is a ________ ground.

21. Trees that are ________ make a certain sound.

22. Trees are able to _____ sound.

Stop here.