Basic Needs

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Everyday Expressions
n.
The moon goes around the earth once a month.

n.
I filled the pot with earth and planted a lily.

n.
The earth is divided into seven continents.

earthen
earthenware
earthly

earthen pot
earthly life

earthquake

Linguistic Skill
Useful Phrases
/ --- down to earth
--- on earth
--- on the earth

Communicating Clearly

 Street Talks
A: Where on earth did you get those ridiculous gloves?
B: Come on Jean. I think theyre lovely.
The Earth goes round the sun once a year.
She put the seeds in the earth.
I like Josh. Hes really down to earth.

Cultural Focus
Transcripts

And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldnt tell where
heaven stopped and the Earth began.

Mitchell: Up the stairs is the cockpit, along with the most

advanced communication center on or above the
face of the earth. You can run the whole country
from here or even a war if we had to. Just last week the
president called the shuttle astronauts. Right from up
there.
Ivan: Oh, really.
Quotations
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton (1928-74), U.S. poet. The Earth, st. 2, in The Awful Rowing Toward
God (1975).