Total English-4
Lead-in:
- resistance to antibiotics on the increase
- new virus destroys global computer systems
- human cloning to make spare parts for children
- space mission in danger as budget crisis grows (budget: a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose; “the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year”)
Vocabulary:
- analysis
- cell
- comic strip: a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- computer nerd (nerd: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively),
- crash a system
- documentary
- firewall
- gadget (a device that is very useful for a particular job)
- gene
- genetic engineering
- hacker
- latest technology
- launch: (the act of propelling with force)
- microchip
- mission
- network (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuit)
- orbit
- organ
- scan
- scientific journals
- shuttle (bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads – lanzadera (en una máquina de coser), transbordador espacial)
- skin tissue (tissue: a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function)
- software
- superbug a (strain accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias) – supervirus, virus multiresistente)
- strain (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress; “his responsibilities were a constant strain”; “the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him”)
- test tube
- up-to-date