Cusco

Learn some vocabulary first:

24 items (Quizlet)

Cusco

1. Cusco is

A) at the top
B) in the heart
C) at the bottom

of the Andes.


2. Cusco was the Capital of the

A) Inca Empire
B) Aztec Empire
C) The Nazca Empire

3. Cusco is sometimes called the

A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Tokyo

of the Americas.


4. Cusco was conquered by

A) The English
B) The Spanish
C) The Portuguese


5. The Andes are

A) The highest mountain range
B) The second Highest mountain range
C) The third highest mountain range

in the world.


6. The city was founded

A) 600 years ago
B) Less than 600 years ago
C) Over 600 years ago


7. The Incas came along

A) After
B) Before
C) At the same time as

the Parcas, Nazca and others.

8. "Cusco" / Qos'co in Quechua means

A) Earth
B) Navel
C) Navel of the Earth


9. The Inca Empire stretched from:

A) Argentina to Chile
B) Columbia to Argentina and Chile
C) Cosco to Lima


10. The Inca people

A) Paid Pizarro's ransom for their king
B) Refused to pay Pizarro's ransom king
C) Killed their own King


11. After killing Atahualpa, the Spanish

A) Made friends with the Incas
B) Tried to destroy the whole Inca civilisation
C) Went back home


12, The ancient language of Quechua is

A) still spoken throughout Peru
B) still spoken by most locals in Cusco
C) no longer spoken


13. What do the following phrases in Quechua mean?

Aliancho
Amegena caucho
Sulpaki



Discuss:

1. Was Cusco and Peru how you expected it to be?

2. Did the video make you curious to go to Peru?

3. Why do you think the Spanish tried to destroy this civilisation?





Listen once more and write the words in the order you hear them:

___conquest
_1_inhabited
___foundation
___the golden age
___precious
___slaughter
___to solidify (to make solid and strong)
___sent on a mission
___artisan
___a feast for the eyes
___altitude (height above sea level)
___artwork
___fusion
___living history

Check:

1. inhabited
2. foundation
3. conquest
4. living history
5. a feast for the eyes
6. altitude (height above sea level)
7. to solidify (to make solid and strong)
8. sent on a mission
9. artisan
10. artwork
11. The golden age
12. precious
13. slaughter
14. fusion

Practice saying these words with their syllable stress pattern

1. inhabited     oOoo
2. foundation    oOo
3. conquest    Oo
4. living history    Oo Oo
5. a feast for the eyes    oOooO
6. altitude    Ooo
7. to solidify  oOoo
8. sent on a mission    Ooo Oo
9. artisan    Ooo
10. artwork    Oo
11. The golden age    oOoO
12. precious    Oo
13. slaughter   Oo
14. fusion    Oo

 

Now match them to their synonyms

 

A) Defeat

B) Craftsperson

C) Art piece

D) A great era

E) Valuable

F) Lived in

G) Base

H) Murder

I) blending

J) Vibrant tradition

K) Height above sea level

L) To make strong or stable

M) Dispatched

Genuine or fake? Compare and Contrast

Task 1.

Simply compare the pairs of pictures, finding similarities and differences.

Task 2.

Looking more closely at the first two pairs, which one do you think is the forgery?

The Math Behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.

Lead in

Draw some flowing water. How can you represent something fluid, with static lines?

Go to Ted Lesson:

The math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

1. Who admitted van Gogh to a mental asylum?

2. What is an energy cascade?

3. What is turbulence?

4. What is relativity?

5. What is the Hubble telescope?

6. What is amazing about van Gogh's 1889 Starry Night painting?

Discuss

1. Is it important that Van Gogh seems to have accidentally represented turbulence? Why?

2. If we can just take photographs or films of fluid things, why bother trying to represent them through painting or drawing? 

Descension




Hannah Gadsby: Nanette | The Sunflowers

lead in:


Who painted this?

If I give you "unsolicited" advice, does it mean the advice is...
A) poorly researched?
B) unasked for?
C) not from a lawyer?
D) not advice that I follow myself?

Discuss

1. Should people who suffer from mental illness take medication or try to cope without it?

2. Is there a connection between artistic talent and mental instability?

3. How might the medication van Gogh was taking have actually been partly responsible for the Sunflowers?


Guide questions

1. According to the man, why should artists not take medication for mental health problems?


Kahoot Quiz

The Math of Starry Night

Tell me three interesting things

 

Tell me three interesting things

 

1. Tell me three interesting things you saw on the way to school.

2. Tell me three interesting things that you remember from this week.

3. Tell me three interesting things you remember from this year.

4. Tell me three interesting thing things you did in your last summer holidays.

5. Tell me three interesting things you did last year.

6. Tell me three interesting things you did during Covid.

7. Tell me three interesting things you remember from more than six years ago.

8. Tell me three interesting things you remember from high school.

9. Tell me three interesting things you remember from being aged 6-10

10 Tell me three interesting things you remember from being younger than 7.

Phrasal verbs and idioms - the elements

I___ d_____ i___  y____ c____

y___ t____ o__ t____ r______

y______ p________ m____ c_______

__ j____ s____ n____

___ s___ ___ d_____ l____ i___

b___ y____ k____ I__ ___ l______

c____ w____ w__ k_____. Ooh

f______

Late at ______
You're takin' me ______
You say you want to _____
I say I want to be ______
I say I don't love _____
But you know I'm a ______
'Cause when we kiss, ooh
Fire

You had a hold on me right _____  the start
A grip so tight I couldn't tear it _______
My nerves all jumpin', actin' like a ______
Well, your kisses they ______, but my heart stays cool

Well, R_____o and J____t
___son and Del______
Baby you can bet
A love they couldn't deny
My ______ say split
But my _____ they lie
'Cause when we _____, ooh
Fire

Lyrics

You know that it would be ________
You know that I would be a _______
______ I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much ________

Come on, baby, light my fire
Come on, baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire

The time to hesitate is ________
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only ________
And our love become a _______ pyre

Come on, baby, light my fire
Come on, baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

Light my Fire

fire off
fire away
fire up
fire back
burn out
burn up
burn off
burn down
spark off
spark up
flare up
blaze away
fizzle out
heat up





Richard Feynman On Fire

True or false?

Carbon and oxygen like each other

Trees come out of the ground

Fire

Listen for verbs of movement

s___p

r___l

c___b

__ll a___y

__ll

___t

___p a____t

ji__le

___ting ___nd

c___ __t

k____ing __t

__sh ___y

___k ____ther

c_____ine

___ine

k___k a___y

s______ing

s___ts

st____k

co_____ue

b___n

snap

repel

climb

roll away

fall

hit

bump against

jiggle

sitting around

come out

kicking out

push away

stick together

combine

shine

knock away

separating

spits

stick

continue

burn

air out

The rooms had all been cleaned and aired out.Leave the window open to air the room out.



Do you know the song Smoke on the Water?
What's it about?

Lyrics

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake _______ shoreline
To make records with a mobile, yeah
We didn't have much ______ now

Frank ______ and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the _______

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
(Smoke) on the water, you guys are great

They burned down the _______ house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
He was pulling ______ out the ground now

When it all was over
Find another place
______ time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

Burn it down

We ended up at the ______ Hotel
It was empty, cold and bare
The Rolling truck ______ thing just outside
Huh, making our _______ there now

With a few _____ lights and a few old beds
We made a place to _______
No matter what we get out of this
I know, I know we'll never _______

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
(I can't hear anything)

one more time
(Smoke on the water) hey!

Smoke on the Water

water down
splash around
dip into
flood in / into
soak up
wet down
wash out
wash away
wash up
wash over
flush out

Element/s

To brave the elements

to be in (or out of) your element

the element of surprise / fear / trust / suspense

the missing element

elementary, my dear Watson

Love is in the air, everywhere I look _______
Love is in the air, every ______ and every _______
And I don't know if I'm being ________
Don't know if I'm being _______
But it's something that I must ________ in
And it's there when I look in your ________

Love is in the air, in the ________ of the tree
Love is in the air, in the ________ of the sea
And I don't know if I'm just __________
Don't know if I feel _________
But it's something that I must ________ in
And it's there when you call out my _________

Love is in the air
Love is in the air
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Love is in the air, in the rising of the ________
Love is in the air, when the day is nearly ________
And I don't know if you're ________
Don't know if I see ________
But you're something that I must believe in
And you're there when I reach out for ________

Love is in the air

1. Like a Duck to Water

   • Have you ever learned something new that you became very good at quickly? What was it like? Did you feel like a duck to water?

2. To Get into Hot Water

   • Can you remember a time when you got into trouble? What happened, and how did you get out of it?

3. To Feel Like a Fish Out of Water

   • Have you ever been in a situation where you felt uncomfortable or out of place? Can you explain it? Did you feel like a fish out of water?

4. To Be Like Oil and Water

   • Do you know two people who never agree on anything? How are they like oil and water?

5. To Clear the Air

   • When there is a misunderstanding or argument between friends, how can you clear the air and make things better?

6. To Add Fuel to the Fire

   • Have you ever seen someone say or do something that made a situation worse? How did they add fuel to the fire?

7. To Promise the Earth

   • Have you ever made a promise that you couldn’t keep? What did you promise? Do you think it's a good idea to promise the earth?

8. To Get on Like a House on Fire

   • Do you have a friend that you get along with very well? How do you get on like a house on fire with them?

9. To Be Down to Earth

   • What do you think it means to be down to earth? Do you know someone who is down to earth? How would you describe them?

10. To Be Walking on Air

    • Have you ever felt so happy that you felt like you were walking on air? What happened to make you feel that way?

Earth, air, water or fire?

 

to the ends of the _____

 

to muddy the ____s

 

to throw the baby out with the bath ____

 

promise someone the ____

 

troubled _____s

 

to create hell on ____

 

not hold _____

 

to add fuel to the ___

 

to fight fire with ____

 

to have your nose in the ___

 

to give an ____ kiss

 

to face the  ___ing squad

 

to be in the line of ___

 

to be walking on ___

 

heaven on ____

 

to ___ one's dirty laundry

 

to get on like a house on ____

 

hot ___

 

to bring someone down to ____

 

to take to something like a duck to ___

 

wipe someone / something off the face of the ____

 

to get into hot ___

 

____-shattering events

 

like oil and ____

 

to move heaven and ____

 

a fish out of ___

 

to clear the ___

 

to vanish into thin ___

 

unchartered _____s

 

to test the _____

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moon/s, star/s, space or sun?

 

be over the ___

 

breathing ___

 

many ____ ago

 

safe ____

 

____ cadet

 

watch this ___

 

reach for the ____

 

a rising ____

 

to have ___ in your eyes

 

once in a blue ____

 

thank your lucky ___

 

over the ____

 

a waste of ____

 

(one's) moment in the ____

 

everything under the ___

 

Make hay while the ___ shines

 

look/stare/gaze into ____

 

 

MOON

 

1. Are you over the moon about anything today?

2. Tell me about something wonderful you did many moons ago.

3. Talk about something you only eat once in a blue moon

 

 

STARS

 

1. What do you thank your lucky stars for?

2. When was a time in your life that you had a little moment in the sun?

3. Are you making hay while the sun shines while you’re here in New Zealand?

Fly, wet, burn or dig?

___ into a rage

___ your heels in

___ing the candle at both ends

on the back ___er

____ the midnight oil

pigs might ___

___ behind the ears

___ yourself laughing

___ blanket

get your feet ___

to ___ low

to have a ___ at someone

to ___ deep into your pockets


make sparks ___

to ___ in the face (of danger, public opinion, etc)

to ____ with anger

___ up some dirt

___ your own grave

tweleve phrases used in sentences



16 fire idioms



Conversation

Space

 

Could you date or marry an astronaut?

Would you rather have a male or female commander on your first trip into space?

What small personal item would you take with you on a journey into space?

What expressions have you learned that use the word “space”?

 

 

Earth

What are your feelings towards the Earth?

What do you know about the history of Earth?

Do you think ‘Earth’ is a good name for our planet? What do you call it in your first language?

Does your religion have an explanation for the creation of Earth?

What do you think is the most beautiful thing about the Earth?

What English expressions can you remember that use the word “earth”?

 

Fire

Do you like looking at fire?

Why are some people fascinated with fire?

What part does fire play in your customs, culture and traditions?

Have you ever seen a building on fire?

Are you good at making a fire?

What English expressions can you remember that use the word “fire”?

What English expressions can you remember that use the word “burn”?

 

Air

What are some of your favourite smells?

Do you ever have any problems breathing?

Think of three things that are lighter than air.

Do you use the air con in the car, or do you prefer to just open the car windows?

Can the air have a taste?

What English expressions can you remember that use the word “air”?

 

Water

What does water taste like?

Do you drink enough water every day?

What different things can you do with water?

What English expressions can you remember that use the word “water”?

What English expressions can you remember that use the word “flow”?

What English expressions can you remember that use the word “sea”?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colour

Really helpful vocabulary page

what colour do you think of?

Sensitive

Earthy and serious

Neutral

Passionate

Creative and natural

Serious and professional

Practical and on the move

Open and positive

Helpful and kind

Creative and nerdy

Pure and innocent

Confident and passionate

Independent and a bit rebellious

Fun and sporty

sick     angry      sleep      awake       sensitive      passion     neutral       mental       change    slow     fast

embarrassing     sadness     positive       kindness       innocent       powerful      love      deep      alon

caring      intelligent     neutral     passionate     courageous     independent     creative      analytical

serious       jokey       thoughtful        generous       warm-hearted      shy       extraverted      introverted

Colour oracle

What words does this remind you of?

Think of six things that are naturally blue. You can't say "sky"or "sea".

1

2

3

4

5

6

What colours can you see on this dress?

What colours are you wearing today? Why?

colour idioms

choose the correct word

out of the blue/red  (unexpectedly)

Q: Which of these events have occurred out of the blue?

Covid

World War II

9/11

The "discovery" of the American Continent by Christopher Columbus

The sinking of the Titanic

pink/green with envy     (jealous)

Is anyone jealous of you for any reason? Why?

purple/orange with rage    (angry)

get caught red/black handed    (guilty)

to have green/white thumbs       (good at gardening)

What makes you go purple with rage?

Do you have green thumbs?

Have you ever tried "shop-lifting"? Why? Why not? Did you get away with it?

  a white/blue lie      (small lie told to be polite or kid)

Tell each other some good reasons to tell white lies.

once in a red/blue moon       (not often at all)

Think about 

something you and your family do once in a blue moon

something that you almost never say or do, but just sometimes you do

to get the green/red light     (to be given permission)

Who gave you the green light to come to NZ?






What colour goes with these noun-adjectives for colour?

ocean

forest

lemon

royal

emerald

sapphire

sky

pitch

dirt

fire-engine

battleship

eggshell

snowy

stark

hot

Speaking:


You have ten characters in a play. They're personality and attitude is expressed in the following statements. What colour will their costume be?

1. Andy: I'm positive, open and lively.
2. Anna: I need my own space. I'm gentle but fragile.
3. Sharon: Don't tell me what to do. I'm my own boss.
4. Gus: I hear what you're saying but I don't want to be involved. I'm not really interested in people.
5. Brian: I'm a person in authority. Behave yourselves.
6. Patricia: I'm royalty. Obey me!
7. Angela: I'm caring and warm. Others are more important for me.
8. Susan: I'm creative yet analytical. I'm nerdy, but original.
9. Arthur: I'm passionate. Love me!
10. David: I'm often in a bit of a hurry, I hate to stand around all day. Please let me through.


Here are ten colours / shades:

1. Dark blue
2. Light blue
3. Orange
4. Red
5. Yellow
6. Grey
7. White
8. Purple
9. Peach
10. Black

Extension: which of these characters will get on well together? Which won't?

What does the diagram show?

Colour Hierarchy Diagram (after Berlin and Kay 1969)

Answer:

The diagram above works from left to right (following the arrows and plus signs). If a language has a particular colour word then it will also have all the colour words to the left of that word. So if a language has a word for blue, then it will also have words for yellow, green, red, black and white. The diagram also indicates that if a language has a word for say pink, then it may, or may not, have a word for purple, but it will have colour words for brown, blue etc.

Why is this?

Watch:
 
The mystery of Blue

Questions:

1. Which famous book about the sea never mentions the colour blue?
2. Which colours would be the first (and last) to be named in ancient languages? Why?

red turquoise black blue white yellow green orange violet

3. Which culture was one of the first to produce a blue dye?
4. How could you test whether or not someone can see a colour?
5.  "Without a word for a colour you may find it difficult to see it”. Do you think this is true?

Discussion:

According to the video, is there some connection between a culture manufacturing colour and "naming" it?
What example was given of this?

C.S Lewis (author of the Narnia series)

"in order to see precisely what something is, you first need to have a vague idea of what it is."

Is the same thing true of the other senses - hearing?

Which sense to you trust most?

SIGHT       HEARING      SMELL      TASTE     TOUCH

How do you check that you're not dreaming?

Does Davidoff's test prove that having a word for a colour might help us to see it? 

We use the expressions "eye-opening experience" or "to open someone's eyes" to mean a person or film or book or journey etc that really made you to see a whole new world. 

Has anyone (or anything) really opened your eyes (or your mind) before?

Create the correct FORM of the word and then check below:

In 'The Odyssey,' Greek poet Homer   FAME    describes the 'wine-dark sea.'

In 1858 William Gladstone, who later became the British prime minister, counted the colour    REFER       in the Homer's Odyssey and found blue wasn't mentioned at all. Black is mentioned NEAR    200 times and white about 100. Red,    WHILE    , is mentioned    FEW   than 15 times, and yellow and green fewer than 10.

It wasn't just the Greeks. Blue also doesn't appear in the Koran, ancient Chinese stories, and an ancient Hebrew version of the Bible,    ACCORD   to a German philologist named Lazarus Geiger.

Check

In 'The Odyssey,' Greek poet Homer famously describes the 'wine-dark sea.'

In 1858 William Gladstone, who later became the British prime minister, counted the colour references in the Homer's Odyssey and found blue wasn't mentioned at all. Black is mentioned nearly 200 times and white about 100. Red, meanwhile, is mentioned fewer than 15 times, and yellow and green fewer than 10.

It wasn't just the Greeks. Blue also doesn't appear in the Koran, ancient Chinese stories, and an ancient Hebrew version of the Bible, according to a German philologist named Lazarus Geiger.

Look at this diagram. What do you think it illustrates?

The surprising pattern behind color names around the world




1. How many colour categories do we have in English?

2. How did anthropologists used to believe colour terms were chosen by cultures?

3. What did the research in 1969 suggest about how colour terms develop in a language?

4. What did William Gladstone notice about Homer's use of colour terms?

4. How do languages with only a few colour terms describe colours that don't have terms?

5. How is colour expressed in Hanuno'o?

6. Why might a word for "red" be formulated before a word for "blue"?

7. What have researchers discovered about colours themselves?





Where would you place these colours in the Hanuno'o spectrum?

Black, dark blue, light blue, purple, orange, white, grey, silver, gold, light green, dark green, pink, red, yellow....

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