VOCABULARY LOG: 50 WORDS

PORTF 1. interaction (noun): Each human interaction defines their behavior.

2. flexible (adjective): My cousin is a flexible gymnast.

OLIO 3. compensate (verb): I have to compensate my brother for his help.

4. disabled (adjective): Helping disabled people when they need is a

ADVAN kind act.

5. savant (noun): I have read an article about a well-known savant.

CED 10 6. estimate (verb): My mom estimates costs when she goes to the
supermarket.
7. retain (verb): Geniuses are capable to retain a lot of information in
their brain.
8. benefits (noun): Eating healthy gives many benefits to our body.
9. predictable (adjective): What happened last week was very predictable.
10. anxious (adjective): There is an anxious girl in the waiting room.
11. image (noun): I like the image that I have in my computer.
12. persistence (noun): Persistence is an important quality that everybody should have.
13. expertise (noun): You have to practice a lot to become an expertise.
14. emerging (adjective): We have an emerging case in the hospital today.
15. assimilate (verb): My brother has to assimilate that we have a new brother.
16. transform (verb): We transform our personalities constantly because of the environment.
17. misery (noun): They were obligated to live in the total misery.
18. meager (adjective): My meager classmate has broken shoes.
19. shame (noun): The shame was so great that she preferred to leave the room.
20. defeated (adjective): After that failure she felt defeated.
21. yearned for (verb): He yearned for a better life for his family.
22. tormented (adjective): My tormented grandmother wants to forget that terrible experience.
23. sordid (adjective): His friends didn’t approve his sordid act.
24. poverty (noun): My parents lived in a great poverty during their childhood.
25. abandonment (noun): He couldn’t be fine after his mother’s abandonment.
26. hopelessness (noun): I saw the hopelessness in her eyes during the accident.
27. dilapidated (adjective): I will invite my dilapidated brother to dinner.
28. sum (noun): We always have to save a regular sum of money for emergencies.
29. risk factor (noun): According to researches it is a great risk factor.
30. impact (noun): The impact caused a lot of damage to the passengers.
31. potential (noun): My cousin has shown that he has a great potential with math.
32. environment (noun): We have to take care of the environment with which we interact.
33. mortified (adjective): The mortified offender had to confess the crime in jail.
34. aspect (noun): I don’t like your aspect today, yesterday it was better.
35. consensus (noun): The consensus went as planned in the meeting.
36. advocate (noun): The advocate couldn’t make it on time because she had an accident.
37. interpret (verb): You don’t have to interpret my expressions; you have to ask me.
38. reliable (adjective): My classmate proved that she is reliable when she finished our project.
39. linked (adjective): You are my linked account in case of emergency.
40. revolutionized (adjective): The revolutionized country was totally different 10 years ago.
41. consult (verb): I have to consult with my dermatology when I want to buy skin care product.
42. conventional (adjective): The conventional method is large but effective.
43. elicit (verb): I want to elicit the maximum salary this month.
44. skeptical (adjective): My skeptical uncle asked my mom a lot of questions.
45. alternative (noun): To choose the best alternative we must think well.
46. self-reliance (noun): Sometimes self-reliance prevents us from asking for help.
47. laborious (adjective): I want to hire a laborious guy for the job.
48. struggle (noun): Take care of a baby is a constant struggle.
49. give up (verb): In difficult situations you mustn’t give up.
50. accountable (adjective): This year I have become an accountable adult.
SYNTHESIZE EXERCISE:

Questions for Daniel Tammet: Questions for Malcolm Gladwell:

1. How did you feel when you knew
about the death of your grandfather?
I was terrified. I mean he died because
of epilepsy and I had one when I was a
child. I could have died.
2. How your life changed after the
documentary?
People usually looked at me a lot for
being special but after that documentary
they looked at me more because more
people knew about me.
1. How did you determinate a specific
time to success?
According to the researches that I did I
know that some people can reach
success in short time but that quantity of
people is low percent, the majority of
people do it in the time that I wrote. It’s
an approximate.
2. Why you made the decision of writing
a book?
I realized that everybody wants to be
successful but only few people know
how to do it so I wanted to show the way.
In my book everybody can learn step by

3. What motived you to create your own
language?
I liked languages and I decided to create
my own because I could manage them
easily.
step.
3. How much time did you take to get all
the information for your book?
Searching about statistics and
experiences took me 10 years exactly.

I think Frank’s life was more difficult than Marla’s life because Marla had only physical obstacles but
Frank also had emotional problems because of his father’s abandonment and he moved alone to
another country, the shame of his past. Maybe for that reason, Marla had more triumphs than him.
Although they had similar triumphs, both managed to be teachers and authors of a bestseller. But
Marla could be athlete despite her condition and public speaker coach. However, I like two stories
serve to motive others when they have obstacles.

First, they are both used in medicine and cause an emotional impact. But genetic testing is a
conventional medicine and laughter therapy is an alternative medicine. Laughter therapy is more
reliable than genetic testing because there is not necessary to interpret the result of genetic testing
however laughter therapy has demonstrated have good results. Genetic testing is only to know if you
have an illness and it needs to examinate your blood or saliva but laughter therapy is a treatment and
you don’t need any exam. Also, for genetic testing you have to go to the hospital but laughter therapy
can be in any place.
CREATE EXERCISE:

Many people who suffer from ASD are not flexible.

 According to Gladwell, to transform talent into expertise we need at least 10000 hours.

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Mmmm A lack of structure makes feel Daniel Tammet anxious.

For many people with ASD, the social interaction is difficult.

Scans of the brains of autistic savants suggest that the right hemisphere might
compensate for the damage of the left.

To retain large amounts of information is usually not a problem for autistic savants.

Daniel Tammet memorized pi to 22,514 decimal places to show people that, although
he has a disability, it doesn’t stop him from being successful.

Dear teacher, thanks for sharing with us the story of your childhood. It really motivated me to fight to
achieve my goals because despite the misery you went through you achieved impressive things like
being a teacher, writer and even author of a bestseller. My experience in college was common, it
made me feel stress and anxious because I had a lot of things to do there. Sometimes I wanted to
give up because the process in the college is really hard. But remembering your story helped me to
continue because without studies you achieved so much and I did have studies had to be able to
finish college. You inspired me to get the better grades so I graduated with some honors and algo I
got a scholarship to study abroad. You also inspired me to write, I’ve always liked the literature but I
didn’t dare to start. Now I’m traveling to Europe while I write my book, it's about not giving up despite
obstacles.

Questions for Norman Cousins:

1. Did you consider conventional medicine as an alternative?
For a moment I did think about that but I decided to try laughter therapy because I had always
been interested in medicine and in Hans’s work. The way he describes it in his book is very
trustworthy.
2. Did you have to change the environment in which you related?
Of course, I had to change everything around me, my routine, my friends, my things.
Absolutely everything had to contribute to my recovery.
3. Did you consult with a doctor to start your laughter therapy?
No, I didn’t consider necessary to do it because the author of the book that I read is a
specialist and the book is about the researches that he has done.
4. Why did you think that treatment was more reliable?
Because the fundamentals had a lot of sense and I analyzed them thoroughly. Also, when I
started the treatment, I wanted to try and I realized that it was working really well so I decided
to continue until the end.
DRAFT:

1 Stephen Wiltshire is considered a genius because he has an incredible skill. He is capable of

drawing landscapes just viewing them one time because he can retain the images in his memory.
When he was a child, he couldn't talk so his talent compensated that disability because he used his
drawings to communicate. When he was 3 years old, he was diagnosed with TEA. With his
persistence he could talk when he was 10 years old. Now he is known worldwide but he cannot
exhibit his works in some of the most prestigious museums in the world because of his condition.
Although he has assimilated that I think the people should be more flexible because he is autistic but
it has some benefits. Stephen has become an expertise because he has had a lot of interaction with
the art since he was a toddler that's why he could practice a lot.

2 My mother is a great example of perseverance, although she didn't have the means, she managed
to be successful. She had a miserable childhood because she lived in poverty and she was
diagnosed with allergies. Also, she lost her father in death and she had to stay with her mother who
didn't have a good character. My mother yearned for change her life in any moment but she made
bad decisions. She got pregnant when she was only 17 years. She felt a lot of shame but also, she
felt tormented because her family abandoned her in that situation. She was really hopelessness and
defeated but the family of my father accepted that she lived with them. When she was living with my
father, she realized that he was immature because he had also had a difficult childhood. Despite her
problems she had to help to my father and that process was really hard. Everybody thought she
would be dilapidated but now she has a lovely family and two business.

3 Genetic testing involves examining DNA, the chemical database that contains instructions for how
the body functions. In a genetic test, a sample of a person's blood, skin, hair, or other tissue is
analyzed because they are linked to their DNA. It is analyzed for the purpose of studying its DNA,
chromosomes or proteins.
I agree with the genetic test because it’s useful to detect if there is any modification or mutation
associated with a genetic disease. That is, genetic analysis can reveal changes in genes that can
cause diseases and conditions. They can also make someone more likely to have certain medical
problems (such as some types of cancer). So, this test helps to identify the risk factor.
The interpretation of the result can define the situation and have a significant impact on people's lives.
If the result is positive, the test can help people make informed decisions about how to manage their
medical care and start appropriate treatment to treat the detected disease. And if the test result is
negative, it can give you a sense of relief from the uncertainty.
Carrying out a genetic test has the expected benefit of certifying a diagnosis that allows knowing and
adequately explaining the implications to the patient and their families, knowing the prognosis and
implementing a more appropriate management for each patient. If Alec Jeffreys hadn’t invented this
test, many people wouldn’t have detected their diseases on time. Over time this test has proven to be
reliable because it directly analyzes our cells.