F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [R/S]

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Homework

Try to continue to retell the article below using some of the new vocabulary. 

Vocabulary

Her foot is better. > Her foot is all better. > Her foot has recovered.

blow / blowing / blew – to make air come out of your mouth
eg. Blow on your food because it’s very hot!
eg. Blow out the candles on your cake and make a wish!
eg. The police officer asked me to blow into  the breathalyzer.
eg. Blow up the balloons before your daughter’s party.

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Blow up – to explode
eg. They threw TNT into the building and it blew up! 

odor/s n. – a smell, often unpleasant
eg. My shoes had a strange odor after I finished a game.

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spread – to make larger or wider
eg. The smoke will spread everywhere.
eg. Some people spread butter on their toast in the morning for breakfast.

diagnose / diagnosing / diagnosed v. – to recognize and name the exact character of a disease or a problem, by examining it

All malaria tests require people to give a blood sample / to draw blood. 

Reading

Malaria breathalyzer test could help millions

Scientists made a breathalyzer to test for malaria. It could find the disease faster than other methods and help millions. People with malaria have a special “breath print”. The breathalyzer finds chemicals in the breath print. One of the odours the device finds is the same as a smell that attracts malaria-spreading insects. The device is still being developed. The researchers say it could be a new, cheap and easy way to help diagnose malaria.

The breathalyzer looks for six different odours to spot malaria. The researchers tested 35 children. They successfully found that 29 of the children had malaria – an accuracy rate of 83 per cent. The lead researcher said that easy-to-use testing devices could reduce antibiotic use. She said: “This would have a major impact on the control of malaria, because all current [testing] methods require blood sampling.” Malaria kills about 430,000 people a year.

Speaking exercise

Scientists created a new breathalyzer to test smell. It should have different useful in the future to test people’s smell or find out malaria. It will be very useful for children to easy and cheap to find malaria disease. It increases accury 83 percent.

TBC