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VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES
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A. The following words have multiple meanings. Read the sentences. Write
the number of the correct definition for the word in bold.
1. 2
2. 1
3. 1
4. 2
5. 1
6. 2
7. 1
8. 2
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B. For each item below, write F if you think it should be flexible and I if you
think it should be inflexible. Then explain your reasons to a partner.
Answers will vary. Possible answers below.
I driving laws
F exercise instructors
F parents
I building materials
F supervisors
F skis
F class schedules
I cell phone covers
I guard rails on highways
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C. Check (✓) the things on your body that are internal.
✓stomach
hair
✓brain
fingernails
✓lungs
✓heart
skin
eyebrows
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D. Match the category with its options. Compare answers with a partner.
1. a
2. d
3. b
4. e
5. c
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In each of the following sentences, underline the cause. If there is a signal
word or phrase, circle it.
1. He can’t walk/he’s paralyzed.
2. An engineering professor and students
3. An exoskeleton
4. walk
5. graduation
LISTENING SKILL
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Apply A. In each of the following sentences, underline the cause. If there is a
signal word or phrase, circle it.
1. The game was rescheduled because of the rain.
2. It was raining really hard. We rescheduled the game for Saturday.
3. The reason I’m late is that I missed the bus.
4. I studies all weekend. I got an excellent grade.
5. Since she’s injured, she has to use crutches.
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Apply B. Go online to watch the video again and complete the sentences.
Include any words or phrases that signal reasons or causes. Then write two
more sentences.
1. because of a car accident.
2. because of our internal skeleton.
3. because he motivates the team/gives them motivation.
4. so Austin could walk across the stage.
5. Austin was able to walk again.
Speaking
VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES
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A. Use the target words, or forms of them, to complete the paragraph.
1. submitted
2. rejected
3. minimum
4. maintain
5. journal
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B. Check the things you would reject, or not accept. Then share your ideas
with a partner.
Answers will vary. Possible answers below.
1. reject
2. accept
3. accept
4. accept
5. reject
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C. The word medium has multiple meanings. Match the dictionary definitions
on the left with the example sentences on the right.
medium (adjective, noun)
1. c
2. b
3. e
4. d
5. a
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D. Put a check (✓) below each verb in the chart headings that can “be done”
to the noun in the last column.
Maintain Reject Submit
✓ a lawn
✓ ✓ an application
✓ a road
✓ one's innocence
✓ ✓ an idea
✓ ✓ a transplanted
organ
✓ ✓ ✓ plans
✓ ✓ ✓ report
✓ ✓ suggestion
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Listen to the audio and check (✓) the topics the speakers discuss. Then,
compare your answers with a partner.
✓the definition of an artificial organ
✓benefits of organs grown on scaffolds
✓statistics on the numbers of artificial organs
disadvantages of artificial hands
✓problem(s) with artificial organs
countries with the most transplants
✓types of organs
PRESENTATION SKILL
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Apply A. Work with a partner. Paraphrase each of the quotes below. Try to
use each of the three ways to paraphrase mentioned in the Learn section.
In the near future, people may be able to live a long time with several artificial
organs.
Walking across the stage when he graduated, Austin Whitney not only achieved his
dreams, he went far beyond them.
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Apply B. Go online to listen to the discussion again. Write the paraphrase you
hear about each topic.
1. A windpipe grown from pre-existing cells: The doctor said they used the patient’s
own cells so that he would not reject the new organ.
2. A new artificial heart in France: The head of the American Medical Association
said that it might allow patients to live more normally than they used to. If they can
make it work, we won’t need so many hearts for transplants.
3. Selling organs for transplant: A professor at Harvard Medical School said even if
the government runs such a program, those who are poor and at risk will be
exploited.
PRONUNCIATION SKILL
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Apply A. Repeat the examples from Learn, activities A, B, and C. Stress the new
information, pause when necessary, and use appropriate intonation.
1. The research is new. (Lightly stress “new.”)
2. Don’t submit that. (Lightly stress “submit.”)
(Lightly stress the bold words. Pause slightly when you see this symbol: |.)
1. All of the options | are flexible | for students, |parents, | and teachers.
2. Why | are they at the hospital | if they’re healthy?