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ON MONDAY
ESL Podcast 1046 – Types of Luggage
In the Learning Guide: Get a full transcript (written version of every word you hear), vocabulary list and sample sentences, and comprehension questions.
In “What Else Does it Mean,” learn the other meanings of “trunk” and “as we speak.”
In the “Culture Note,” learn about “Traveler’s Cheques.”
“Before the1990s, “traveler’s cheques” were a “convenient” (easy-to-use) and safe…” – READ MORE in the Learning Guide
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ON WEDNESDAY
English Cafe 474
Topics: How to Become a Dentist; The Guano Island Act; classic versus classical; to be there for (someone) versus to take (someone) there; after full deliberation
In the Learning Guide: Get a full transcript (written version of every word you hear).
In “What Insiders Know,” you will read about “The United States Minor Outlying Islands.”
“The United States Minor Outlying Islands ‘consist of’ (are made of; include) nine…” – READ MORE in the Learning Guide
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ON FRIDAY
ESL Podcast 1047
In the Learning Guide: Get a full transcript (written version of every word you hear), vocabulary list and sample sentences, and comprehension questions.
In “What Else Does it Mean,” learn the other meanings of “positively” and “out.”
In the “Culture Note,” learn about “The Clean Air Act.”
“The Clean Air Act of 1963 is a U.S. federal law that was designed to control…” – READ MORE in the Learning Guide
Hi! I am very, very proud of the Romanian Simona Halep.
Still Serena Williams beat Simona Halep in Singapore to win her fifth WTA Tour Finals title in Singapore 2014 Tennis.
A perfect ending for Serena.
Halep stunned Williams 6-0, 6-2 on Wednesday – Serena’s worst beating
in more than 16 years.
Hi! May I praise myself?
On October8th, Sweden’s Royal Academy of Science awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry to three scientists:
Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the US, and Stefan Hell of Germany, for their work .
Their techniques can be used to study cellular processes as they happen.
A technique called electron microscopy can resolve far smaller details than can optical microscopy.
The approaches pioneered by Drs Hell, Betzig and Moerner allow scientists to watch proteins,
or to see individual neurons create and prune connections to other neurons.
The great surprise?
Stefan Hell was born in Romania. He attended primary school and one year of secondary education in Romania
before leaving to West Germany.
Hi! And Herta Muller, a German-Romanian novelist, poet, essayist, received
the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.