English II Group 2 Technology and Science Amazon Reaches for the stars

English II

Lab 3

Group 2

Go to the following link: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/amazon-reaches-for-the-stars/4566917.html

 Part I  Complete with the missing terms.

1.       Amazon is in talks with Chilean officials to store and  ____________________ what is called astrodata -- information gathered by the telescopes. 

2.       If an agreement is reached, the company may be able to use the information to develop _______________ _______________

(AI) tools.

3.       This means the information would be stored over the internet instead of a computer ______________ _______________.

4.       The government has yet to provide details of the  __________________possibilities.

5.       Amazon has been talking with Chile for two years about a possible _______________  ________________.

6.       Smith was involved in email exchanges between

7.        _____________________ and Chilean officials over the past six months. At the time, Smith was with AURA observatory, which leads three of the U.S. financed telescope projects in Chile.

8.       He said the Chilean telescopes “can  ______________________ from the cloud” by easing the difficulty of dealing with information technology.

9.       Many of the world’s most powerful telescopes operate in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the  _______________ _______________on earth.

10.   They said there are ways such data could help with more Earth- _________________ issues.

11.   Pertuze spoke at an event announcing Chile’s aim to build a  __________________ observatory on the cloud.

12.   The Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to give humans a ________________ of the edge of the universe. The project will cost $1 billion to complete.

13.   The huge device will have seven round  _____________________ that will be 24 meters around.

14.   The telescope and its computer will make the Giant Magellan Telescope 10 times as  ____________________________________________

 as the American space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Part II Answer these questions.

1.                  What is Amazon hoping to store and mine?

2.                Why is Northern Chile considered a perfect place to observe the night sky?

3.                When will Chile's Large Synoptic Survey Telescope be fully operational?

4.                How much more accurate will the Giant Magellan Telescope be than the Hubble Space Telescope?

Part III Write a summary of about 150 words of the video.

English II Group 1 Technology and Science Amazon Reaches for the stars

English II

Lab 3

Group 1

Go to the following link: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/amazon-reaches-for-the-stars/4566917.html

 Part I  Complete with the missing terms.

1.       Amazon is in talks with Chilean officials to store and  ____________________ what is called astrodata -- information gathered by the telescopes. 

2.       If an agreement is reached, the company may be able to use the information to develop _______________ _______________

(AI) tools.

3.       This means the information would be stored over the internet instead of a computer ______________ _______________.

4.       The government has yet to provide details of the  __________________possibilities.

5.       Amazon has been talking with Chile for two years about a possible _______________  ________________.

6.       Smith was involved in email exchanges between

7.        _____________________ and Chilean officials over the past six months. At the time, Smith was with AURA observatory, which leads three of the U.S. financed telescope projects in Chile.

8.       He said the Chilean telescopes “can  ______________________ from the cloud” by easing the difficulty of dealing with information technology.

9.       Many of the world’s most powerful telescopes operate in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the  _______________ _______________on earth.

10.   They said there are ways such data could help with more Earth- _________________ issues.

11.   Pertuze spoke at an event announcing Chile’s aim to build a  __________________ observatory on the cloud.

12.   The Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to give humans a ________________ of the edge of the universe. The project will cost $1 billion to complete.

13.   The huge device will have seven round  _____________________ that will be 24 meters around.

14.   The telescope and its computer will make the Giant Magellan Telescope 10 times as  ____________________________________________

 as the American space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Part II Answer these questions.

1.                  What is Amazon hoping to store and mine?

2.                Why is Northern Chile considered a perfect place to observe the night sky?

3.                When will Chile's Large Synoptic Survey Telescope be fully operational?

4.                How much more accurate will the Giant Magellan Telescope be than the Hubble Space Telescope?

Part III Write a summary of about 150 words of the video.

English I Plastic Grabage Group 4

 Lab 3
 English I
 Group 4

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/huge-device-aims-to-capture-pacific-oceans-plastic-garbage/4570636.html

Part I  Based on the podcast complete with the missing words:

1. Engineers have launched a huge  _______________ collection device to gather plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.

2. The organization Ocean Cleanup created the collection device. The group’s  _______________ is Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old inventor from the Netherlands.

3. Slat was just 16 years old when he was moved to clean up the oceans. He had been on a  __________ __________ in the Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish. The problem has only grown since.

4. “The plastic is really  __________________ and it doesn’t go away by itself and the time to act is now,” Slat said.

5. Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco for the Garbage Patch. The barrier, called the floater, is 600 meters across. Attached to it is a ________________________ that hangs three meters down in the water.

6. Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered, including bottles and fishing equipment. Slat said the containers are expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be  __________________.

7. “We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly  _________________________but we hope it works,” he said. “The ocean needs all the help it can get.”

8. Leonard also raised concerns that animals might be captured by the  __________________ that will hang below the surface.

9. “I’m the first to  _______________this has never done before and that it is important to collect plastic on land and  __________ ___________ _____________ on plastic entering into the ocean, but I also think humanity can do more than one thing at a time to  _________________this problem,” Slat said.

 Part II. Write the definition  and an example for each term  you used to complete the  above activity. 

 Part III. Write a summary of the podcast you listened to. 

English I Plastic Garbage Group 3

 Lab 3
 English I
 Group 3

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/huge-device-aims-to-capture-pacific-oceans-plastic-garbage/4570636.html

Part I  Based on the podcast complete with the missing words:

1. Engineers have launched a huge  _______________ collection device to gather plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.

2. The organization Ocean Cleanup created the collection device. The group’s  _______________ is Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old inventor from the Netherlands.

3. Slat was just 16 years old when he was moved to clean up the oceans. He had been on a  __________ __________ in the Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish. The problem has only grown since.

4. “The plastic is really  __________________ and it doesn’t go away by itself and the time to act is now,” Slat said.

5. Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco for the Garbage Patch. The barrier, called the floater, is 600 meters across. Attached to it is a ________________________ that hangs three meters down in the water.

6. Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered, including bottles and fishing equipment. Slat said the containers are expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be  __________________.

7. “We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly  _________________________but we hope it works,” he said. “The ocean needs all the help it can get.”

8. Leonard also raised concerns that animals might be captured by the  __________________ that will hang below the surface.

9. “I’m the first to  _______________this has never done before and that it is important to collect plastic on land and  __________ ___________ _____________ on plastic entering into the ocean, but I also think humanity can do more than one thing at a time to  _________________this problem,” Slat said.

 Part II. Write the definition  and an example for each term  you used to complete the  above activity. 

 Part III. Write a summary of the podcast you listened to. 

English I Plastic Garbage group 2

 Lab 3
 English I
 Group 2

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/huge-device-aims-to-capture-pacific-oceans-plastic-garbage/4570636.html

Part I  Based on the podcast complete with the missing words:

1. Engineers have launched a huge  _______________ collection device to gather plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.

2. The organization Ocean Cleanup created the collection device. The group’s  _______________ is Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old inventor from the Netherlands.

3. Slat was just 16 years old when he was moved to clean up the oceans. He had been on a  __________ __________ in the Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish. The problem has only grown since.

4. “The plastic is really  __________________ and it doesn’t go away by itself and the time to act is now,” Slat said.

5. Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco for the Garbage Patch. The barrier, called the floater, is 600 meters across. Attached to it is a ________________________ that hangs three meters down in the water.

6. Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered, including bottles and fishing equipment. Slat said the containers are expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be  __________________.

7. “We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly  _________________________but we hope it works,” he said. “The ocean needs all the help it can get.”

8. Leonard also raised concerns that animals might be captured by the  __________________ that will hang below the surface.

9. “I’m the first to  _______________this has never done before and that it is important to collect plastic on land and  __________ ___________ _____________ on plastic entering into the ocean, but I also think humanity can do more than one thing at a time to  _________________this problem,” Slat said.

 Part II. Write the definition  and an example for each term  you used to complete the  above activity. 

 Part III. Write a summary of the podcast you listened to. 

English I Plastic Garbage Group 1

 Lab 3
 English I
 Group 1

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/huge-device-aims-to-capture-pacific-oceans-plastic-garbage/4570636.html

Part I  Based on the podcast complete with the missing words:

1. Engineers have launched a huge  _______________ collection device to gather plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.

2. The organization Ocean Cleanup created the collection device. The group’s  _______________ is Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old inventor from the Netherlands.

3. Slat was just 16 years old when he was moved to clean up the oceans. He had been on a  __________ __________ in the Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish. The problem has only grown since.

4. “The plastic is really  __________________ and it doesn’t go away by itself and the time to act is now,” Slat said.

5. Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco for the Garbage Patch. The barrier, called the floater, is 600 meters across. Attached to it is a ________________________ that hangs three meters down in the water.

6. Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered, including bottles and fishing equipment. Slat said the containers are expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be  __________________.

7. “We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly  _________________________but we hope it works,” he said. “The ocean needs all the help it can get.”

8. Leonard also raised concerns that animals might be captured by the  __________________ that will hang below the surface.

9. “I’m the first to  _______________this has never done before and that it is important to collect plastic on land and  __________ ___________ _____________ on plastic entering into the ocean, but I also think humanity can do more than one thing at a time to  _________________this problem,” Slat said.

 Part II. Write the definition  and an example for each term  you used to complete the  above activity. 

 Part III. Write a summary of the podcast you listened to. 

"Curiosity killed the cat"

 Lab 3
Basic English
Group 5

Click on
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/curiosity-killed-the-cat-/4567264.html
Here at this link listen to the audio in groups of five. Write the names of the members of the group. Choose one person th write the answers given by all the other members of the group.
 Then,  answer these questions and write a small summary of what you understood from the podcast.

1. Go Online and find five or six idioms and explain their meaning.
2. What is the explanation they give for Curiosity killed the cat?
3. What is inquisitive? Give an example.
4. What is pry? Give an example.
5. What is nosy? Give an example.
6. “Curiosity killed the cat" What is the other part? Exlain it.