Week 18 (12/23-12/27)

No. English Chinese Main Vocabulary Words 1 Mexican 墨西哥人 2 semester 學期 3 role model 模範 4 example 範例 5 pressure 壓力 6 interested 感興趣的 Preselected Vocabulary Words from the Text 7 NASA 美國國家航空暨太空總署 8 training 訓練 9 zero gravity 零重力 10 sensations 感覺;知覺 11 IMAX 巨幕電影系統 12 conference 會議 13 riskiest 最危險的 14 female 女性 15 essential 必要的

No. English Chinese 16 differentiate 區別 17 missions 任務 18 president 總統 19 considered 深思熟慮後的 20 specific 特定的 21 graduate 畢業 22 primary 最初的 23 months 月份 (複數) 24 enjoyment 愉快;樂趣 25 freeze-dried 冷凍乾燥的 26 potential 潛在的 27 purpose 意圖，目的 28 monitor 監控 29 prevented 避免 30 coffins 棺材

Talk with an Astronaut 2

1. Mexican: a person of Mexican descent

2. additional: more than is usual or expected

3. role model: a person whose behavior in a particular role is imitated by others

4. influential: exerting or possessing influence

5. focus: a center of activity, attraction, or attention

6. options: the power or right to choose: freedom of choice

7. NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

8. training: the state of being trained

9. zero gravity: the state or condition of lacking apparent gravitational pull

10. sensations: a mental process (such as seeing, hearing, or smelling) resulting from the immediate external stimulation of a sense organ often as distinguished from a conscious awareness of the sensory process

11. IMAX: widescreen cinematography that’s up to 10 times as big as a normal movie theater

12. conference: a meeting of two or more persons for discussing matters of common concern

13. riskiest: attended with risk or danger

14. couple:  two persons paired together

15. essential: of the utmost importance

16. differentiate: to mark or show a difference in

17. missions: a specific task with which a person or a group is charged

18. weightlessness: having little weight: lacking apparent gravitational pul

19. considered: matured by extended deliberative thought

20. specific: restricted to a particular individual, situation, relation, or effect

21. graduate: to receive an academic degree or diploma

22. primary: first in order of time or development

23. focus: a center of activity, attraction, or attention

24. enjoyment: the action or state of enjoying

25. pursue: to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, or defeat

26. potential: existing in possibility: capable of development into actuality

27. purpose: something set up as an object or end to be attained

28. monitors: to watch, keep track of, or check usually for a special purpose

29. prevented: to keep from happening or existing

30. coffins: a box or chest for burying a corpse

QUIZLET: https://quizlet.com/tw/987957568/talk-with-an-astronaut-2-flash-cards/?i=1ifari&x=1qqt

STORY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQxHzon7Hec

HOMEWORK

Monday

1. Write words 1-10 x3

2. Definitions x1

3. Reading 236-237

Tuesday

1. Write words 11-20 x3

2. Definitions x1

3. Reading 238-239

Wednesday

1. Write words 21-30 x3

2. Definitions x1

3. Reading 241-242

Thursday

1. Review worksheet.

2. Reading 244-245

Friday

1. Sensay https://student.oksensay.com/?key=arrf6u