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English Detective #23-- Medical Research: new ways to look at healing: Oct. 8, 2013 October 07, 2013 |
![]() Your First Clue: Vocabulary we’ll Emphasize in this Issue
assurance, attached, ceases, coincide, corresponding, differentiation, elimination, induce, inhibit, injury, integral, minimal, overlap, phase, portion, trigger, widespread. Several words in this issue are related to starting (induce, trigger), stopping (cease, eliminate-- to completely destroy or get rid of something) or limiting (inhibiting, somewhat like restricting in issue 21.) Which words do you already know? Which are familiar (you have seen them, or can guess their meanings), but you’d like to know more about them? Which are completely new? Notice how they are used in the readings and practice activities. Then try to use some of them yourself, in a sentence or two. Getting the whole story: this issue’s reading/listening practice:
Click here for Russell’s talk on Regenerating the Body. Eva Vertes’ TED talk and a comprehension quiz. (That page links to TED, where you can read the transcript of the talk. It also has a link to the Comprehension Worksheet pdf version.) Follow the Clues (Vocabulary Practice):
Here's the crossword. The answers are here. Word Family Investigator:
Here is an essay and practice with Latin roots for comparison and contrast. A note if you get gmail: Have you missed any issues of English Detective? if you find English Detective in your “Promotions” box, you can move it to your “Primary” box (if you want) by clicking on it and dragging it there, then clicking ‘yes’ when asked if you want to always get it in the Primary box. Coming in the next issue: Disease Fighters In case you missed these: Earlier issues of English Detective have articles on a number of topics, plus practice with all 570 words from the Academic Word List. You can check them out with the link to the back issues page below (or find what words were practiced in each issue here (and on the following 3 pages.) P.S. If you’re not already getting English Detective, you can subscribe by completing the form here. (It's free!) |
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