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January 11, 2012

San Francisco

Dear NI1 students,

You can listen to chapter 7 on LA and chapter 8 on New Orleans here.
I'd also like you to listen to this video on the hippie movement in San Francisco in the 60's.
  • How many people visit the area on daily basis? 
  • Where exactly did they gather? 
  • Why didn't the police want to move them away? 
  • Did the hippies like to be visited?

3 comments:

Isabel said...

Hello MÂȘ Jose:
I've been watching the San Francisco's video in your blog. I found it very interesting,and I think is a good supplement for the book.

Here are my answers:
- Eight thousand hippies had invaded the area.
- They gather exactly in Haight Ashbury Street, although they wanted to change its name for "Love Street".
- The police planned not to hurry in case they moved to other areas. They wanted to keep them in one easily controllable district.
- In the video there was a bill where I could read the next words: "ATTENTION TOURISTS: We are no freaks to be gawred(*)at. Go to the zoo and look at the animals". I couldn´t read the last sentence, but I understood hippies didn´t like to be visited by tourists.

(*)I've been looking for the meaning of "gawred" but I didn't find it. Perhaps I had read it bad. Could you help me please?
Thank you.

Isabel said...

Sorry, I made a mistake in my comment, I wanted to say "Here my anwers are".

Unknown said...

Hi Isabel!

You wrote it fine at first: "here are a my answers".

BTW, your answers are correct. And the verb you saw on the poster is:
"to gawk" which means to stare, look at something in a stupid way, for instance when you are a tourist and look at a building as if it were the first time you see one.
Good job!!