F2F Class Notes (Raph)

Vocabulary

Museum (n): 1-  a building in which interesting and valuable things (such as paintings and sculptures or scientific or historical objects) are collected and shown to the public.
E.g.: Prince went to a museum last Saturday.

Costume (n): 1- a set of clothes worn in order to look like someone or something else, especially for a party or as part of an entertainment.
E.g.: Our host was wearing a clown (小丑) costume.
E.g.: The children were dressed in Halloween costumes.

Telescope (n): 1- 望远镜

Jupiter (n): 1- 木星

Wavelength (n): 1- 波长

Reading

Awesome Video of the Sun
(Source: www.newsinlevels.com/products/awesome-video-of-the-sun-level-2/)

NASA released a new HD video of the sun, a¨)d it calls it “thermonuclear art”.

telescope took a picture of the sun every 12 seconds in ten wavelengths of light. Then, people put these images together to create a video. It took the NASA team about ten hours to produce one minute of the video.

NASA also recently released footage of Jupiter in 4K HD. It shows changes in the planet’s Giant Red Spot.

Grammar

I went to a party about Halloween. – I went to a Halloween party. 

Pronunciation

Halloween: /ˌhæl.oʊˈiːn/

Majority: /məˈdʒɑː.rə.t̬i/

Ethnicity: /eθˈnɪs·ɪ·t̬i/

Building: /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ/

Museum: /mjuːˈziː.əm/