I've come across very interesting people lately and would like to invite you all to get to know them by watching the videos and listening to the material proposed.
Then, post your opinion on who you consider the most important person to make the difference in the world and why. Who do you consider crazy and why?
Hope you get inspired by these people and use this tool to boost your English writing!
Make your thoughts known by communicating them through the language to be mastered.
Cheerio!
Flávia
1) Video: Meet Ryan Hreljac - the Canadian youngster
His Site: The Ryan's Well Foundation
(on the Ted.com video, select the language so that the captions in English appear at the bottom)
His Biography: Elon Musk's profile
Listen to Breaking News English: People Eat 1st Google Burger . Then, fill out the spaces below.
Once on the site, please click on the MP3 link (either American or British pronunciation):
Two food critics have eaten meat that was grown in a (1) ____________.
It is the first time anyone has eaten (2) ____________ meat. The experiment is
part of a project run by Google co-(3) ____________ Sergey Brin. He invested
over $380,000 in research for the burger. It took a team of scientists at a
university in Holland over two months to grow the meat for the patty. They used
(4) ____________ cells from a cow and grew 20,000 (5) ____________ pieces of
meat. These were mixed with salt, egg powder, breadcrumbs and other (6)
____________ to make the burger. Mr Brin hopes artificial meat will become part
of our diets in ten years. He wants to (7) ____________ animals from being
killed for food. He also knows stem-cell meat will be (8) ____________ for the
environment.
Mr Brin's burger was put to the taste (9)
____________ on Monday. Two food experts tried the beef burger. An English (10)
____________ fried it in sunflower oil and butter. Austrian food scientist
Hanni Rutzler said it was "close to meat" but it "(11)
____________ juiciness". She also thought it was a little harder than she
(12) ____________. US author Josh Schonwald commented that it was a little dry
but was like a real burger. He said: "The absence is the (13)
____________. It has a leanness but the bite feels like a (14) ____________
hamburger." Many journalists wanted a (15) ____________, but there was
only one burger. Lead researcher Mark Post said he would give any (16)
____________ to his children. He said cells taken from one cow could produce
175 million burgers.
