F2F Class Notes 18th January (Celeste) [W]***

Read the article below slowly. Be prepared to read the article in your next class and talk about it.

Diary 2017-01-16 Monday Cloudy

Yesterday was my father’s birthday.
I gave him a set of books as a birthday gift.
It’s about a grave robbery story.
In the past, the rich people or Kings of China would put their treasure into their graves when they die.
The grave robbers would find their graves and steal their treasure.
Grave robbers would take four candles in the four corners of the grave before they began their work.
If the candle was blown out during their work, they must stop to steal and leave the grave as soon as possible.
Because this means the owner of the grave is angry.
It’s a very interesting book.
I hope my father will like it.

Roxie’s Edit

Diary 2017-01-16 Monday Cloudy

Yesterday was my father’s birthday.
I gave him a set of books as a birthday gift.
They are about a grave robbery story.
In the past, the rich people or Kings of China would be buried into their graves with their treasure.  The grave robbers would find their graves and steal their treasure.
Grave robbers would put four candles in the four corners of the grave before they began their work.
If the candle was blown out during their work, they would stop to steal and leave the grave as soon as possible.
Because this means the owner of the grave is angry.
They are very interesting books.
I hope my father will like them.

Celeste’s Edit

Diary 01-17-2017 Cloudy Monday

Yesterday was my father’s birthday.
I gave him a set of books as a birthday gift.
They are about a grave robbery.
In the past, the rich people/wealthy or kings/emperors/royalty of China would be buried in their graves with their treasure.
Grave robbers would find these graves and steal the treasure.
Grave robbers would place/put four lit candles in the four corners of the grave before they began their work/crime.
If a candle was blown out during the robbery, they would stop and leave the grave as soon as possible because this meant the owner of the grave was angry.
It’s a very interesting book set.
I hope my father will like it.

Vocabulary

cremation n. – the act of burning dead people/animals

cremate / cremating / cremated / will cremate 

international dishes / global cuisine ( kwi – zeen )

Grammar

I leaving January 30th. – I will leave on Jan. 30th. / I’m leaving on Jan. 30th.

Pronunciation

meant ( ment )

durian ( der – ree in )

world ( were – ull – d )

fall ( fahll ) ***open mouth more

Zombies would wipe out humans in 100 days

Everyone knows that zombies only exist in horror movies. Or do they? A new article in the University of Leicester’s ‘Journal of Physics Special Topics’ predicts that zombies would kill almost everyone on Earth in just 100 days. Students predicted there would only be 273 survivors after three months of a zombie apocalypse. The students were not, of course, using real zombies found in fiction. Instead, they pretended that a deadly virus had infected someone and then spread around the world. They decided that one person with the virus would have a 90 per cent chance of infecting another person every day. They calculated that at that rate, the human population would fall to just 273 people by day 100.

A professor at the university, Mervin Roy, explained why students did research into a zombie apocalypse, even though zombies do not exist. He said: “Every year we ask students to write short papers for the Journal of Physics Special Topics. It lets the students show off their creative side and apply some of the physics they know to the weird, the wonderful, or the everyday.” He also said it gives students valuable practice in writing and reviewing academic papers. He added that the annual research tested the ability of students to apply their understanding of physics to hypothetical scenarios (imaginary situations). This could help in the future to prepare us for real-life disasters.