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.
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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.
Hello, I'm Fabio, work in a Bank as an Infrastructure Manager. My opinion about Sergey Brin is that this guy is a visionary man, his idea is excellent for the future of humanity, for exemple in ralation to reducing famine, but at the moment it is an experiment that will require some improvements, such as the lack of juiciness. Moreover, it is necessary to think about the unemployed cowboys or the Jewish food regulation approval, as mentioned in the video.
ResponderExcluirFinally, I conclude that this is a very good idea and I would like to taste this hamburguer. And you?
Hello
ResponderExcluirI'm Natalia and I read the text about Google Burger!
I think the text very interesting because the idea of creating a lot of meat with cells from a cow is like magic. Personally, I'm not vegetarian, but I just can´t imagine how difficult it´s not to eat meat with so many options on the market today and so few vegetarian options to choose from.
The new invention can give to them a real option of food with all the nutrition of real meat, and this process does not kill animals.
However, I think it's so expensive to produce it!!! I hope that invention can grow up and catch on. Who knows the process to produce it becomes less expensive in the future.
Like Fabio said, I agree with the idea to reduce famine thinking in the future of humanity.
And of course we can finally taste it!!! Would you like?
Hi, my name is Millena, I'm a first year high school student.
ResponderExcluirThe idea is brilliant and creative because Sergey hasn't used animal meat to make this burger.
This can turn into an interesting choice to those people who prefer vegetables, although the taste isn't the same, as delicious as the original.
If they could use this great idea in reality, where there aren't so many deaths of innocent animals, by using just animals' cells to produce the hamburger, animals would be safe of their tragic destiny.
Do you have another idea about it? Bye bye :)
Hello, everyone. I'm Victor, a 3rd-year high-school student. I got interested in Elon Musk's ideas and actions.
ResponderExcluirMost of the new tecnologies, such as cars that polute the air with CO2 and nuclear plants are bad for the world. The future of the planet is the question. If any new project comes up in order to turn the planet better, the world will be destroyed.
Elon Musk, from South Africa, is a scientist that wants to change the future of the planet for the better. He created an electric car, Tesla, to decrease pollution and not to spend a lot of oil with transport. His initiative is really important to keep the humans living.
Musk also projected a spacial city. The world population is increasing, and it's impossible to have more than 10 billion people here; therefore, this idea is a way to have people outside our planet.
All the people, like Elon Musk, should try to create new projects to help the world be a better place. If new and sustainable ideas do not come up, the world will probably be over soon.
I'd like to hear from you on Elon's and my ideas.
See you.
Hello, my name is Isabella. I’m a 9th grade junior high student.
ResponderExcluirI’m going to talk about the stem cell burger, which is a possible solution for the world famine. However, it can cause many problems, such as the big quantity of cows, due to the fact that they will not be killed. Consequently, the great amount of excrement will send more C02 into the atmosphere. Moreover, as the stem cell expirements in general have been recently researched, it’s necesary to be more careful to launch a product like this burger into the market, as there could be a suspicion of cancer developement .
Although there are these problems in the air, I would like to taste the burger, like Fabio, Milena and Natalia said. What do you think about these points I have raised?
Whait for your answer :)