Unit 12: mind over matter

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Unit 12: Mind over Matter

In this unit you will practise reading, listening and speaking about matters of the mind such as moods and feelings. You will learn to apply participle and to+ infinitive clauses and nominalisation. Furthermore you will practise with Reading and Use of English part 7.

Some brainy questions ...

But first.... what does it mean?

Mind over matter.....

Of all animals humans have the largest brains.

1. True
2. False

Brain weight as a proportion of body weight is higher among men than women.

1. True
2. False

The human brain, when awake, generates enough energy to power a lightbulb.

1. True
2. False

We only use 10% of our brains

True

False

1. be all brawn and no brains
2. be out of one’s brain
3. a brain box
4. a brain drain
5. pick someone’s brains
6. to wrap someone’s brain around something.
7.  a brainchild
8. to be a scatter brained

1.  to concentrate on something so as to understand it.
2. the movement of people with education and skills from their own country to another country.
3. to be very drunk 
4. to forget things easily or not to think seriously about things
5.  to ask for information from someone who knows more about a subject than you do.
6. a clever and original idea, plan or invention
7. to be physically strong but not very intelligent.  
8. a very intelligent person

Idioms with brain(s)

Now

Together: Listening part 2 on page 159

Have a look at page 158 and 159 and take 10 minutes to complete the Vocabulary exercises 1-4.

Clauses 

Start video Grammar on the Move at 3.39 minutes.

Participle clauses

Participle clauses enable us to share information in a more economical way.

They are formed using:

- present participles (going, reading, seeing, walking, etc.),

- past participles (gone, read, seen, walked, etc.) or

- perfect participles (having gone, having read, having seen, etc.). 

Examples

Analysing the diaries, we found remarkably similar patterns.

Concerned about the lack of cultural awareness of their staff,

a group of US business corporations prompted the research.

Having administered a questionnaire, we got 696 responses. 

Writing more concisely

Example:

When we analysed the diaries, we found remarkably similar patterns. 

Becomes:

Analysing the diaries, we found remarkably similar patterns.

Mind the tense!

Example:

After the teacher had explained the theory, the teacher let his pupils work on their own.

Becomes:

Having explained the theory, the teacher let his pupils work on their own. (Or!!!: after explaining)

Giving a reason for the main clause

Example:

Because I felt exhausted after the flight, I went to bed as soon as I got to the hotel.

Becomes:

 Feeling exhausted after the flight, I went to bed as soon as I got to the hotel.

Used as a conditional

Example:

If you wash this t-shirt with care, it will not shrink and lose its colour.

Becomes:

 Washed with care, this t-shirt will not shrink and lose its colour.

Past participle!

Turn the following sentences into one sentence using a participle clause

1. Dave reads a magazine. Dave waits for the doctor.

2. If the pottery is treated with care. The pottery will last generations.

3. She had lost her wallet. She filed a report at the police station.

4. He is an ex-convict. He has no hope of finding a job.

5. He spent his childhood in Denmark. He speaks Danish perfectly well.

6. Emma felt tired. Emma went to bed early.

7. The boss explained the problem. The boss asked Bill to solve it.

8. Sally didn't wish to boast. Sally didn't mention her promotion.

Now, ...

Study the grammar on page 222 and do the exercises 1 + 2

Then,

Turn to page 160 and do ex. 1-4.

Nominalisation

Look at the grammar of page 223 and do ex. 1 and 2.

Then turn to page 165 and do ex 1-3.

Furthermore: Vocab page 162 ex 1 and 2

Reading pages 162 and 163

Push yourself page 164

weektask 5

Vocab page 159 ex. 1-4 and page 162 ex 1-3

Reading page 162-163 Ex. 2