LISTENING MATERIALS
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Topic : English Jokes
Title : The trains are always late.
Source : www.manythings.org
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THE TRAINS ARE ALWAYS LATE
A man was complaining to a railroad engineer:
“What's the use of having a train schedule if the trains are always late?”
The railroad engineer replied:
“How would we know they were late, if we didn't have a schedule?”
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ENGLISH LISTENING
Topic : Astronomy
Title : New Stars Discovered in the Sky
Genre : Report/News
Source : www.bbclearningenglish.com
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Indonesian students of English (SMP/SMA)
Background:
Scientists have
discovered there are three times more stars in the sky than they had thought. New research in the "Nature"
journal says this could mean there are people living on another planet like the earth. Pallab Ghosh reports:
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(1). Transcript:
Words in the News
from “bbclearningenglish.com”
Astronomers have assumed that the composition
of all galaxies is the same as our own. But using
a new, more powerful instrument on the Keck telescope in Hawaii,
researchers have discovered that older galaxies contain
twenty times more
small dim stars, called
‘red dwarves’, than
younger galaxies such
as our own.
Doctor Marek Kukula
of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
describes what the view
from a planet
in an older
galaxy might be like.
"When one of these
galaxies that we now know contain lots and lots of small red stars, it may well
be true that the night sky is dotted with these small, faint red stars glowing
like embers and that might produce a very pretty effect."
According to Professor
Pieter van Dokkum of Yale
University, the discovery
also increases the estimate of the number of planets in the universe, and
therefore makes it even more likely that there's life somewhere else in the
cosmos.
"There's
been particular attention recently to these red dwarf stars. In one galaxy
there's about a trillion of these stars and there's hundreds of billions of
these galaxies. Even if the planet is quite close to the star, you could have
liquid water on the planet, because the star is not as bright as the sun and so
a planet can be a lot closer and still be kind of balmy, rather than scorching
hot."
The discovery
that there are
many more stars
means that our universe is
a much brighter, more
crowded place than we previously thought.
Pallab Ghosh, BBC News
(2). Sample of Exercise:
Listen
to the audio and fill in the blanks with words/phrases that you’ve heard!
Words in the News
from “bbclearningenglish.com”
…(1)… have assumed that
the composition of all galaxies
is the same as our own. But using a new, more powerful instrument on the Keck
telescope in Hawaii, researchers have discovered that
older galaxies contain
twenty times more
small dim stars, called
‘red dwarves’, than
younger …(2)… such as
our own. Doctor
Marek Kukula of
the Royal Greenwich
Observatory describes what the
view from a …(3)…
in an
older galaxy might
be like.
"When one of these
galaxies that we now know …(4)… lots and lots of small red stars, it may well
be true that the night sky is dotted
with these small, faint …(5)… glowing
like embers and that might produce a very pretty effect."
…(6)… Professor Pieter van
Dokkum of Yale University, the discovery also increases the estimate of the
number of planets in the …(7)…, and therefore makes it even more likely that
there's life somewhere else in the
cosmos.
"There's
been particular attention …(8)… to these red dwarf stars. In one galaxy there's
about a trillion of these stars and there's hundreds of billions of these
galaxies. Even if the planet is quite close to the star, you could have liquid
water on the planet, …(9)… is not as bright as the sun and so a planet can be a
lot closer and still be kind of balmy,
rather than scorching hot."
The discovery
that …(10)… stars
means that our universe is
a much brighter, more
crowded place than we previously thought.
Pallab Ghosh, BBC News
(3). Vocabulary and Definitions:
astronomers : people who study the stars and outer space
composition : what something is made of
powerful
instrument : a very effective
piece of equipment that is attached to the telescope
galaxies : groups of millions or billions of stars in
space
dotted with : scattered with
glowing like
embers : the stars give off
light so that they look like lit wood or coal after the fire has died down
the cosmos : space, where planets and stars other than
earth are found
balmy : pleasantly mild weather
scorching
hot : hot enough to burn
different forms of life
universe : space, and all the planets and stars in
it, including earth
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