Unit 4 lesson 4 Hurricane

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Today

• Unit 4, lesson 4
• Text: song lyrics from Hurricane by Bob Dylan 

Bob Dylan

(Real name: Robert Allen Zimmerman)

• influential American artist 
• Wrote a lot of protest songs
• Nobel Prize of Literature in 2016

"Hurricane"

• Written in 1975
• About acts of racism/profiling against Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
• 1967 -> charged with triple murder 
• 1985 -> judge ruled that Carter had not received a fair trial and he was released 

 

Put the screws to someone (§6)

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
3. to cooperate with someone

To play ball with someone (§6)

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
3. To play basketball with someone
4. to cooperate with someone

His cards were marked in advance (§9)

1. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
2. the outcome was already known
3. to be under one's total influence, domination, or control

It is a pig-circus (§9)

1. It is a funny business
2. A false testimony
3. A trial with a bribed judge
4. a farce / phony court trial

To go along for the ride

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner.
2. to be under one's total influence, domination, or control.
3. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.

Now 

• (Finish) exercises 1 - 14  (p. 175-177)
• (Already) done? Exercises 21 - 23 (extra vocab practice)
• Read your book / study Finish Up  

Tomorrow 

• Explanation relative pronouns  
• Exercise 24 (unit 4, lesson 4)