Video after 3.3
Lachesism - The Dictionary of Obscure sorrows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqovm-Io2D0
Get Ss to create a definition for the word first.
SBp24 pre-Listening vocabulary
- all kinds of traditional LORE
- I've always felt rather SCEPTICAL about that
- PRESUMABLY, they should be FAIRLY accurate
- insects DIVE FOR COVER when rain is IMMINENT
- a GALE was DUE from the north
- they are INTRINSICALLY linked
- have a VESTED INTEREST in weather forecasting
- for our ancestors, the weather was a life and ____ situation, not just an INCONVENIENCE
- these sayings used to be CONFINED TO the farming community
- they were really CLUTCHING AT STRAWS when they linked animal behaviour to the weather
WB p12 - Reading Part 7
A. 1. when people express their opposition to something in public and often violently, they ...... (expression)
2. significant as a cause or basis of something but not necessarily manifest or obvious = u..........
3. l...... ideals/ideas/emotions = noble, admirable // haughty, arrogant
4. to surpass, go beyond the range of limits (of an idea / concept) = to t.......
B. 5. to throw with force = h.....
6. ridiculously small and few = m.....
7. to consume with pleasure = ..... (expression)
Fun strange facts:
Recursive islands (or nested islands)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHcE2ZNke10
The Wallace Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O96MiXxXz6k
Trees need salmon :)