Contact 5 U1F2 - Lightyears ahead

FILE 2: lightyears ahead

Science & healthcare

Multiple Choice

Queen Victoria was given chloroform during the birth of het eighth child.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

People who smoke do not need more anaesthesia

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Anaesthesia does not put you to sleep; it puts you in a reversible coma.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Small pieces of sticking tape are used to keep the eyelids fully closed.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

The anaesthetics always prevent you from waking up during surgery.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

General aneasthesia may cause memory loss that can last for days, even months.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Babies ware not given anaesthetics until the 1980s because it was thought babies couldn't feel pain.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

People with ginger hair need more anaesthetics than anyone else because they have a gene called melanocortin 1, which decreases a person's sensitivity to anaesthetics

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

It's harder to provide the best dose of medication to patients who are significantly overweight.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

In 1846, an enterpising dentist administered ether to a patient who needed a tumour removed from this neck, giving rise to the modern age of anaesthesia.

• TRUE

• FALSE

2. The sky
is the limit

How to build a bionic human?

Podcast listening - sit back & relax: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1lWnhhk9uBrw2GML48gmk1?si=2151bdf37c3b45bf

Open Ended

What are the most important things to do BEFORE you answer a multiple choice question? Give at least two tips.

TED TALK: Aimee Mullins
multiple choice listening

• wb p.36

  • BEFORE LISTENING: MULTIPLE CHOICE STRATEGIES

    • Read the questions fully with their answer options.

    • Answer the questions in your head at first.

    • Eliminate the incorrect answers.

    • Fill in the answers you are 100% sure of.

    • Make an educated guess for the questions you do not know or leave them blank.

TED TALK: Aimee Mullins
multiple choice listening

Listen to the interview

• wb p.36

  • before listening

    • FIRST STEP: read the questions carefully!

    • 2 min

• now listen well to the interview and answer the questions in the mean time

d2
e2
f3

a3
b3
c4

Correction

TED TALK: Aimee Mullins

Poll

How did you score out of 6?

• Less than 3/6

• 3/6

• more than 3/6

• a perfect score

Poll

Now apply formula score:

Correct answer = 2pts

no answer = 0 pts

incorrect answer = -1pts

How are your grades now?

• Less than 4/12

• Mediocre (6/7/12)

• Quite OK (8-10/12)

• Almost perfect to perfect (11-12/12)

1) Take notes on a seperate piece of paper
2) listen again & review / complete your notes.
3) You receive your file.
4) apply the strategies to answer mpc-questions and your notes to solve the test.

Listen twice

MPC LISTENING TEST: BLOOD TYPES

Nominate a person that
- has inspired you to do well in life
- to achieve some goals you would be proud of
- Somebody that has set an example for you.

You can find the instructions on Teams.
Make a vlog about it with FlipGrid (feature in Teams)

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BBC SOUNDS - The listener chain
Woman's Hour - The Listener Chain: Sonic Knitter Felicity Ford - BBC Sounds

Which scientific breaktrough can you see on this image?

Glossary:
convulsions - stuiptrekkingen
brass wire - koperdraad

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The frog experiment

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"numerous scientists were exploring"

• past simple

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"Luigi Galvani was experimenting"

• past simple

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"He discovered the remarkable effects"

• past simple

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"He attached a brass wire"

• past simple

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"and was preparing to induce a spark"

• past simple

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

When do you have to apply which tense?

This tense is used for a completed past action when there is no stress on the duration of the action.

• Past simple

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

When do you have to apply which tense?

This tense is used to describe a scene in the past.

• Past simple;

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

When do you have to apply which tense?

This tense is used for an action in progress at a specific time in the past.

• Past simple

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

When do you have to apply which tense?

This tense is used for a longer event that was interrupted by a single event.

• Past simple

• Past continuous

Multiple Choice

When do you have to apply which tense?

This tense is used for an action in progress at a specific time in the past.

• Past simple

• Past continuous

Exercise!

• Workbook p.46 ex.5.3

• We will go through this exercise together.

• Make sure you can apply the rules to use the tense while doing the exercise.

Replace this with the title

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

GALVANI INSPIRED!

• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• One of the first famous female writers

• Married to Percy Byssche Shelley --> also a writer

• Early 1800's.

• Romanticism --> dark & melancholic gothic novel

• Literary classic --> written at 19 years old

• early/ first (?) science-fiction novel?

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Teaser

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"creating life itself has obsessed the brilliant scientist Victor Frankenstein"

• Present perfect simple

• Present perfect continuous

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"He has also feverishly been trying to fashion a creature"

• Present perfect simple

• Present perfect continuous

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"He has not had any luck."

• Present perfect simple

• Present perfect continuous

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"He has never seen such an ugly being."

• Present perfect simple

• Present perfect continuous

Multiple Choice

In the text you could find some tenses underlined.

Up to you to decide which tense is used.

"He has not only been plundering hundreds of graveyards."

• Present perfect simple

• Present perfect continuous

Multiple Choice

When do you have to apply which tense?

This tense is used for an action that started in the past and continues up to now. The duration of the action is not stressed.

• Present perfect simple

• Present perfect continuous

Multiple Choice

When do you have to apply which tense?

This tense is used for an action that started in the past and continues up to now. The duration of the action is stressed.

• Present perfect simple

• Present perfect continuous

Workbook p.47
ex. 5.6
Apply the rules while doing the exercise.

Together

Exercise