Hello everyone!
I'm getting quite addicted to the BBC Worldwide channel in Youtube. The video I bring you today is part of a BBC Worldwide documentary. Let's work on some of the complex structure "ingredients" that we have been seeing in class, as well as some vocabulary:
Phrasal verbs and verb+preposition
Give the full context for these verbs. What do they mean?
to stretch up:
to head for:
to bring up:
to pull up:
Finding complex structures
Find an instance of:
A relative clause
A participle clause
Finding collocations
How many instances of adverb+adjective can you find? How many adjectives?
Find a new meaning for the verb "to claim", providing its context.
Enjoy!
Hi everyone,
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Give the full context for these verbs. What do they mean?
to stretch up, related to a territory, the extension
0:48 … this desert stretched the long entire cost of Namibia…
to head for: the place where we are going to
0:20 …and that´s where we´re heading for now…
to bring up: to take out
3:30 … brings up icy water from the depths of the sea
to pull up: to raise
3:40 … masses of food to be pulled up from the seabed which makes as a fantastic feeding ground for fish…
A relative clause
0:35 …they were hiding in the middle of these vast desert which is an amazing sight to see…
2:30…In December each female gives birth the single pup who is conceived right here exactly a year ago
A participle clause
3:12 …leaving the pups all alone
Finding collocations
How many instances of adverb+adjective can you find?
3:17…extremely vulnerable
3:22…incredibly windy
3:39… really freezing
Find a new meaning for the verb "to claim", providing its context.
0:50 …A cost that is claimed hundred of ships and many more lifes…
In the coast there are… the coast contains, posses
Best
Irene
Thank you so much, Irene!
ReplyDeleteBefore I correct you, let's wait for some other answers so we can compare them...
It was fantastic, by the way. Hardly any corrections to make!
first of all, Thanks for the beautiful video, it´s a special place.
ReplyDeleteTo stretch up: (i´m not sure about this) (00:12) "...stretches up all that we have time to go in that way..".(To expand along somewhere).
T head for: (00:21) "...and that´s where I´m heading for now...".(To go)
To bring up: (03:31) "...brings up icy water from the depths of the sea".(To bring to the surface close to the coast).
To pull up: (no way!!) (03:43) "Causes masses of XXXXX To be pulled up on the sea XXXXX". (To bring outside?)
A relative clause: (02:33) "...in december each female gives birth to a single pup who is conceived right here, exactly one year ago".
A participle clause: (03:11) "...Leaving the pups all alone".
To Claim: (00:51) "A coast that is claimed hundreds of ships and many more lives with the structure currents and fake sea fog".
Beautiful video!
Aaaand thank you again for your comments! You both come so close to the actual words she uses in many of your answers! Good job!
ReplyDeleteThe key, as usual, in a couple of days...
It is a beautiful video, isn't it? I love that moment when the seal pups surround the woman as if she were their mother!
The key!
ReplyDeleteGive the full context for these verbs. What do they mean?
TO STRETCH UP: 0:11 Stretches all the way up to Angola that way, Botswana behind me, South Africa, and over there is the Skeleton Coast.
TO HEAD FOR: 0:20 And that’s where I’m heading for now.
TO BRING UP: 3:29 This, in turn, brings up icy water from the depths of the sea
TO PULL UP: 3:40 And that causes masses of food to be pulled up from the sea bed, which makes it a fantastic feeding ground for fish
The meanings you ventured were correct.
Finding complex structures
Find an instance of:
A RELATIVE CLAUSE: 0:36 They were hidden in the middle of this vast desert, which was an amazing sight to see.
2:32 In December, each female gives birth to a single pup, who is conceived right here exactly a year ago.
3:40 And that causes masses of food to be pulled up from the sea bed, which makes it a fantastic feeding ground for fish
A PARTICIPLE CLAUSE: 1:07 Even if sailors were able to survive the shipwreck, their problems had only just begun. FACED WITH NEVERENDING SAND DUNES, WITH TEMPERATURES OF FIFTY DEGREES AND NO WATER, most of them died in the desert wilderness.
Finding collocations
HOW MANY INSTANCES OF ADVERB+ADJECTIVE CAN YOU FIND? Extremely vulnerable, incredibly windy, really freezing.
HOW MANY ADJECTIVES? In order of appearance: beautiful, largest, vast, amazing, secret, entire (only before noun: the entire coast), treacherous, fake, barren, desolate, exciting, isolated, northern, huge, hard, single (before noun: a single pup [meaning only one]), difficult, alone, vulnerable, windy, constant, icy, freezing, fantastic.
FIND A NEW MEANING FOR THE VERB "TO CLAIM", PROVIDING ITS CONTEXT.
0:47 This desert stretches along the entire coast of Namibia, a coast that has claimed hundreds of ships and many more lives with its treacherous currents…
To claim (in this context): to cause somebody’s death, to make a victim of.
I'm sorry nobody else tried... It was a long exercise but worth the effort, I hope.
Thank you for commenting!