Practical English (2):Advanced

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Practical English (2)Advanced

• Instructor Dr. Yi-Cheng Huang
• Course Code A8327340
• School of Science and Engineering/
• Language and Communication
• Time 0920-1210
• Date May 05, 2008

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Course Description of Today

• 1. Section I and II Chapter 1, Unit 8 (Human
  Adaptation to Space)
• 2. Section III Personal Presentation
  (????????????????? and ??)
• 3. Roll Call

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Vocabulary Paragraph 1

• 1 adaptation (adapt) adaptation is the act of
  changing something or changing your behavior to
  make it suitable for a new purpose or situation
• 2 spread out (spread)
• 3 renown (n) a person of renown is well known,
  usually because they do or have done something
  good
• 4 astrophysics (astrophysicist) the study of the
  physical and chemical structure of the stars,
  planets, and other nature objects in space

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Vocabulary Paragraph 1

• 5 Steven Hawking (see photo)
• 6 Stanley Kubrick (see photo)
• 7 sustain if something sustains you, it supports
  you by giving you help, strength, or
  encouragement (a formal use)
• 8 realistic if you are realistic about a
  situation, you recognize and accept its true
  nature and try to deal with it in a practical way
• 9 portrayal the act of portraying

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Steven Hawking
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Stanley Kubrick
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Vocabulary Paragraph 1

• 10 Yuri Gagarin (see photo)
• 11 atmosphere (a) a planets atmosphere is the
  layer of air or other gases around it (b) the
  atmosphere of a place is the air that you breathe
  there (c) the atmosphere of a place is the
  general impression that you got of it (d) if a
  place or event has atmosphere, it is interesting

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Yuri Gagarin
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Vocabulary Paragraph 2

• 1 astronaut a person who is trained for
  traveling in a spacecraft
• 2 physiological (physiology) pertaining to
  living bodies (humans, animals, and plants)
• 3 ailment an illness, especially a lasting
  condition
• 4 gravity-free
• 5 distinguish to see or understand differences,
  to discriminate
• 6 nausea a feeling of sickness that may cause
  one to vomit

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Vocabulary Paragraph 2

• 7 deprived (adj) prevented from having basic
  rights or necessities (deprive (v) if you
  deprive someone of something that they want or
  need, you take it away from them or you prevent
  them from having it)
• 8 distribution giving or dealing out of
  something
• 9 fluid a fluid is a liquid (a formal use)
• 10 puffy if part of someones body, especially
  their face, is puffy, it has a round, swollen
  appearance

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Vocabulary Paragraph 2

• 11 bulge (n, v), bulging (adj) if you say that
  something is bulging with things, you are
  emphasizing that if is full of them
• 12 vein the thin tubes in your body through
  which your blood flows towards your heart (vs.
  artery)

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Vocabulary Paragraph 3

• 1 duration the time that something continues or
  exists
• 2 disorder a sickness or disturbance of the mind
  or body
• 3 atrophy to become weak to lose size and
  strength
• 4 essential something that is essential is
  extremely important or absolutely necessary to a
  particular subject, situation or activity
• 5 mineral, calcium

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Vocabulary Paragraph 3

• 6 exposure the state of being unprotected
• 7 radiation
• 8 hazard a hazard is something which could be
  dangerous to you, your health or safety, or your
  plans or reputation
• 9 intense to describe something that is very
  great or extreme in strength or degree
• 10 galactic bodies (galaxy)
• 11 at risk of (something)

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Vocabulary Paragraph 4 and 5

• 1 psychological (psychology)
• 2 confined a confined space or area is a small
  and enclosed by walls
• 3 unmanned (manned) unmanned vehicles do not
  have any crew and are operated automatically or
  by remote control
• 4 unveil (veil) if you unveil a plan, your
  introduce it to the public
• 5 permanent something lasts forever

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Vocabulary Paragraph 6 and 7

• 1 orbit
• 2 pose if something poses a problem or danger,
  it is the cause of that problem or danger
• 3 NASA

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Assignment for Next Week

• Submit your reading list!
• Please Preview Chapter 1, Unit 10 (Homeschooling
  A Better Way to Learn?)
• Please Prepare for Your Personal Presentation (At
  Least 5 Minutes)(?????????????? and ??)

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Please Contact Me via the Following Ways

• E-Mail g5260010_at_mail.isu.edu.tw
• Website spaces.isu.edu.tw/g5260010
• Office 1406A (4th Floor, Administration
  Building)
• Extension 5252
• Office Hour Tuesday 2,3,4 and 5 Wednesday
  2, 3, 4 and 5 ( By Appointment )