Hi everyone!
Paired with relaxing images, very suitable for a Monday, this video will enable us to explore different ways of expressing reason and effect/consequence. Only one question, why, but many possible answers.
The video is a collection of photos taken at a very specific time to capture an unusual effect: a hidden city inside the city. Can you find the answers to these questions and tell us how the speaker is expressing cause or effect? You can transcribe the sentence if that helps.
1. Why did he decide to take these pictures?
2. What are the effects of such few cars and people on the streets?
3. Why doesn't he usually have the time to reflect on or play around with images?
4. That day, when did the appearance of the city start to change? Why?
Consider elements like sentence order (why shouldn't one start the sentence with "because"?), alternatives to because like "since" or "as", using nouns instead of clauses (linking in this case with "because OF" or "due to/owing to/thanks to"), or, my favourite, starting the sentence with a present participle clause (which can also be used to express condition, result, time...)
Not a bad idea to start using alternatives, seeing as Spanish learners can reportedly spell because in (wait for it...) 237 different ways! It's not our fault if we're imaginative when it comes to spelling!
Now seriously, variety is the key here. Knowing that these are common ways of expressing cause will also help your comprehension. "Since you're here, we're going to start" has nothing to do with time but with reason (meaning "now you're here" / "given that you're here"), and sometimes the result may be clearly positive, so you may want to use "thanks to" to make this connotation clear.
See you in the comments! Enjoy!
I hope I successfully understood the whole video. Here are my answers:
ReplyDelete1. Since he had seen and admired some photographers’ works, he decided to have some fun and enjoy the morning by seeing London in a way that you usually don’t see it.
2. The fact that there are no cars and only a few people on the streets, makes it really eely and you enjoy the city in a kind of a different way than you would normally do on a busy day.
3. As he works for the news as a cameraman, he does things very fast.
4. Probably after breakfast, they started to appear more tourists taking pictures and photographers melding around, but there were a very few people until noon.
Oh! Our first anonymous comment!
DeleteFantastic answer! You did understand all of it! A couple of things you could bear in mind, though:
1. Notice a different sentence order here between the speaker and your answer.
2. The word is eery (you can look it up in the dictionary widget on the right)
2 and 4. Very few people and a few people are different things: "a few" has a positive meaning: more than nothing, some. "Very few", or simply "few" has a negative meaning: less than usual, less than you need.
Thank you!!