F2F Class Notes 11th April (Celeste)[R]***

Demo StudentHaley T

Homework

Listen to the 2 recordings of the articles below. Read one of the articles slowly in your next class and focus on pronunciation.

Vocabulary

lab/labs n. – a place to do experiments or pharmacology

eg. Haley works in a lab during the week.

eg. Where is the lab?

eg. The lab is in Fudan University.

I know – not polite

I see / I understand / I get it – more polite

mnemonics n. – the process or technique of improving or developing the memory.

Grammar

for noun

eg. I work for Fudan University.

eg. Celeste works for Smart English. 

eg. Haley’s mom works for a company. 

 

to verb

eg. I work to create pharmaceuticals.

eg. Celeste works to teach English to Haley.

eg. Haley’s mom works to make money.

Reading: How to become a memory champion

http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1703/170311-memory-0.html

Can you remember vocabulary easily? If not, help may be near. A study says anyone can remember things better if they train their brain. We can be a “memory athlete“. Scientist Martin Dresler said six weeks of training can help us remember many things. He said people could train and enter the World Memory Championships.

Dr Dresler looked at brain scans of memory champions and “normal” people. He was surprised to see no differences. He decided we can all be memory athletes. He studied people who trained for 40 days using mnemonics. They more than doubled their memory. Mnemonics is an old method of helping people remember things.

Pronunciation

champion ( cham – P – yin )

athlete ( ath – leet ) ***remember to open your mouth big for the ‘a’

technique ( tek – neek )

Reading: New, super-thin material cools buildings

http://breakingnewsenglish.com/1702/170215-air-conditioning.html

A team of engineers has created a super-thin material that could help keep buildings cool. The team is from the University of Colorado Boulder in the USA. Engineers from the university developed the revolutionary new material, that is very thin and can cool objects even under direct sunlight. The material does not need energy to work nor does it need water to help keep things cool. The engineers say the new material could provide an answer to air conditioners, which are expensive to run and need a lot of water. The material is unlike anything found in nature. It is a glass-polymer hybrid that is just 50 micrometers thick. That’s slightly thicker than the aluminium foil we use for cooking.

The engineers explained how their new material works. They said when it is put on top of something, two things happen. The first thing is that it cools the object underneath by reflecting the sun’s rays back into space. At the same time, the second thing happens – the material removes the object’s own heat and sends that into the air. An engineer said: “The key advantage of this technology is that it works 24/7 with no electricity or water usage….We’re excited about the opportunity to explore potential uses in the power industry, aerospace, agriculture and more.” Another researcher said: “Just 10 to 20 square meters of this material on the rooftop could nicely cool down a…house in summer.”