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1. “You can do anything, but not everything.” David Allen
2. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
3. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen
4. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi
5. “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle
6. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers
7. “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” André Gide
8. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretzky
9. “We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learnt the day before was wrong.” Bill Vaughan
10. “When I do good, I feel good;when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.” Abraham Lincoln
11. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
12. “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” Frank Wilczek
13. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein
14. “Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” Alfred A. Montapert
15. “Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.” Virgil Garnett Thomso
16. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Gandhi
17. The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln

18. There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison

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• on the right track : if you’re “on the right track”, you’re doing the right thing and progressing. Literally, a “track” is a narrow road or path
• to run over phr vb: if a car “runs over” someone, it hits that person
• a shot n: if you have a “shot” at something, you try to do it
• enthusiasm n: if you have a lot of “enthusiasm” for something, you’re excited about that thing
• hard adj: something that’s “hard” is difficult for you
• a rocking horse n: a toy horse that you can sit on and ride. It has curved pieces of wood under its feet so it goes backwards and forwards with the movement you create
• to figure out phr vb: if you “figure out” something, you understand it

Every summer when I was growing up, I would fly from my home in Canada to visit my grandparents, who lived in Mumbai, India. Now, Canadian summers are pretty mild at best –about 22 degrees Celsius or 72 degrees Fahrenheit is a typical summer’s day, and not too hot. Mumbai, on the other hand, is a hot and humid place well into the 30s Celsius or 90s Fahrenheit. As soon as I’d reach it, I’d ask, “How could anyone live, work or sleep in such weather?” To make things worse, my grandparents didn’t have an air conditioner. And while I tried my very, very best, I was never able to persuade them to get one. But this is changing, and fast.

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Humid:

00:59

Cooling systems today collectively account for 17 percent of the electricity we use worldwide. This includes everything from the air conditioners I so desperately wanted during my summer vacations, to the refrigeration systems that keep our food safe and cold for us in our supermarkets, to the industrial scale systems that keep our data centers operational. Collectively, these systems account for eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

• Account for sth: to form, use, or produce a particular amount or part of a group of people or things
• Desperate (adj) /ˈdes.pər.ət/: very serious or bad
• Emissions(n) /iˈmɪʃ.ən/: the act of sending out gas, heat, light

01:27

But what keeps me up at night is that our energy use for cooling might grow six fold by the year 2050, primarily driven by increasing usage in Asian and African countries. I’ve seen this firsthand. Nearly every apartment in and around my grandmother’s place now has an air conditioner.

• Fold(suffix)/ -fəʊld/: having the statednumber of parts, or multiplied by the stated number
• Primarily (adv) /praɪˈmer.əl.i/: mainly
• Firsthand adv): If you experience something firsthand, you experience it yourself

And that is, emphatically, a good thing for the health, well-being and productivity of people living in warmer climates. However, one of the most alarming things about climate change is that the warmer our planet gets, the more we’re going to need cooling systems — systems that are themselves large emitters of greenhouse gas emissions.

• Emphatic (adj) /emˈfæt.ɪk/: done or said in a strong way and without any doubt

example: The minister has issued an emphatic rejection of the accusation.

This then has the potential to cause a feedback loop, where cooling systems alone could become one of our biggest sources of greenhouse gases later this century. In the worst case, we might need more than 10 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, just for cooling, by the year 2100. That’s half our electricity supply today. Just for cooling. But this also point us to an amazing opportunity. A 10 or 20 percent improvement in the efficiency of every cooling system could actually have an enormous impact on our greenhouse gas emissions, both today and later this century. And it could help us avert that worst-case feedback loop.

• Avert(v) /əˈvɜːt/: to prevent something bad from happening

02:54

I’m a scientist who thinks a lot about light and heat. In particular, how new materials allow us to alter the flow of these basic elements of nature in ways we might have once thought impossible. So, while I always understood the value of cooling during my summer vacations, I actually wound up working on this problem because of an intellectual puzzle that I came across about six years ago. How were ancient peoples able to make ice in desert climates? This is a picture of an ice house, also called a Yakhchal, located in the southwest of Iran. There are ruins of dozens of such structures throughout Iran, with evidence of similar such buildings throughout the rest of the Middle East and all the way to China.

• Alter(v): /ˈɒl.tər/: to change something, usually slightly
• Wound up(adj)/ˌwuːnd ˈʌp/: very worried, nervous
• Puzzle (n) /ˈpʌz.əl/ : a situation that is difficult to understand
• Puzzle (v): to cause someone to feel confused and slightly worried
• Ruin /ˈruː.ɪn/ (n): the broken parts that are left from an old building or town
• Ruin(v): to spoil or destroy something completely

03:42

The people who operated this ice house many centuries ago, would pour water in the pool you see on the left in the early evening hours, as the sun set. And then something amazing happened. Even though the air temperature might be above freezing, say five degrees Celsius or 41 degrees Fahrenheit, the water would freeze.

• Pour(v) /pɔːr/: to make a substance flow from a container

The ice generated would then be collected in the early morning hours and stored for use in the building you see on the right, all the way through the summer months. You’ve actually likely seen something very similar at play if you’ve ever noticed frost form on the ground on a clear night, even when the air temperature is well above freezing. But wait. How did the water freeze if the air temperature is above freezing? Evaporation could have played an effect, but that’s not enough to actually cause the water to become ice. Something else must have cooled it down.

• Frost(n) /frɒst/: a weathercondition in which the air temperature falls below the freezing point of water, especially outside at night
• Evaporation(n) /ɪˌvæp·əˈreɪ·ʃən/: the process of changing from a liquid to a gas, or a change from a liquid to a gas

04:34

Think about a pie cooling on a windowsill. For it to be able to cool down, its heat needs to flow somewhere cooler. Namely, the air that surrounds it. As implausible as it may sound, for that pool of water, its heat is actually flowing to the cold of space.

• Implausible (adj) /ɪmˈplɔː.zə.bəl/: difficult to believe, or unlikely
• Windowsill(n): a shelf below a window, either inside or outside a building

04:54

How is this possible? Well, that pool of water, like most natural materials, sends out its heat as light. This is a concept known as thermal radiation. In fact, we’re all sending out our heat as infrared light right now, to each other and our surroundings. We can actually visualize this with thermal camera sand the images they produce, like the ones I’m showing you right now. So that pool of water is sending out its heat upward towards the atmosphere. The atmosphere and the molecules in it absorb some of that heat and send it back. That’s actually the greenhouse effect that’s responsible for climate change.

• Sends out (phrasal verb): to allowa substance such as smoke or chemicals to escape into the atmosphere
• Thermal (n, adj) /ˈθɜː.məl/: connectedwith heat
• Radiation (n) /ˌreɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/: a form of energy that comes from a nuclear reaction and that can be very dangerous to health:
• Molecules (n) /ˈmɒl.ɪ.kjuːl/: the simplestunit of a chemical substance

05:32

But here’s the critical thing to understand. Our atmosphere doesn’t absorb all of that heat. If it did, we’d be on a much warmer planet. At certain wavelengths, in particular between eight and 13 microns, our atmosphere has what’s known as a transmission window. This window allows some of the heat that goes up as infrared light to effectively escape, carrying away that pool’s heat. And it can escape to a place that is much, much colder.

• Critical (adj): /ˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/ expressingan opinion when you think something is wrong or bad
• Critical (adj): very important
• Wavelength (n)/weɪv.leŋθ/: the distance between two waves of energy

The cold of this upper atmosphere and all the way out to outer space, which can be as cold as minus 270 degrees Celsius, or minus 454 degrees Fahrenheit. So that pool of water is able to send out more heat to the sky than the sky sends back to it. And because of that, the pool will cool down below its surroundings’ temperature. This is an effect known as night-sky cooling or radiative cooling. And it’s always been understood by climate scientists and meteorologists as a very important natural phenomenon.

• meteorologists (n) /ˌmiː.ti.əˈrɒl.ə.dʒɪst/: someone who studies meteorology
• Come across(phrasal verb): to meet someone, or to find something by chance

06:40

When I came across all of this, it was towards the end of my PhD at Stanford. And I was amazed by its apparent simplicity as a cooling method, yet really puzzled. Why aren’t we making use of this? Now, scientists and engineers had investigated this idea in previous decades. But there turned out to be at least one big problem. It was called night-sky cooling for a reason. Why? Well, it’s a little thing called the sun. So, for the surface that’s doing the cooling, it needs to be able to face the sky. And during the middle of the day, when we might want something cold the most, unfortunately, that means you’re going to look up to the sun. And the sun heats most materials up enough to completely counteract this cooling effect.

• Counteract(v) ˌkaʊn.tərˈækt/: to reduce or remove the effect of something unwanted by producing an opposite effect

07:28

My colleagues and I spend a lot of our time thinking about how we can structure materials at very small length scales such that they can do new and useful things with light — length scales smaller than the wavelength of light itself. Using insights from this field, known as nano photonics or meta materials research, we realized that there might be a way to make this possible during the day for the first time.

Meta material(n): A meta material is a material engineered to have a property that is not found in nature

07:49

To do this, I designed a multilayer optical material shown here in a microscope image. It’s more than 40 times thinner than a typical human hair. And it’s able to do two things simultaneously. First, it sends its heat out precisely where our atmosphere lets that heat out the best. We targeted the window to space. The second thing it does is it avoids getting heated up by the sun. It’s a very good mirror to sunlight. The first time I tested this was on a rooftop in Stanford that I’m showing you right here. I left the device out for a little while, and I walked up to it after a few minutes, and within seconds, I knew it was working. How? I touched it, and it felt cold.

Microscope (n): /ˈmaɪ.krə.skəʊp/: a device that uses lenses to make very small objects look larger

08:33

(Applause)

08:38

Just to emphasize how weird and counterintuitive this is: this material and others like it will get colder when we take them out of the shade, even though the sun is shining on it. I’m showing you data here from our very first experiment, where that material stayed more than five degrees Celsius, or nine degrees Fahrenheit, colder than the air temperature, even though the sun was shining directly on it.The manufacturing method we used to actually make this material already exists at large volume scales. So I was really excited, because not only do we make something cool, but we might actually have the opportunity to do something real and make it useful. That brings me to the next big question.

09:21

How do you actually save energy with this idea? Well, we believe the most direct way to save energy with this technology is as an efficiency boost for today’s air-conditioning and refrigeration systems. To do this, we’ve built fluid cooling panels, like the ones shown right here. These panels have a similar shape to solar water heaters, except they do the opposite — they cool the water, passively, using our specialized material. These panels can then be integrated with a component almost every cooling system has, called a condenser, to improve the system’s underlying efficiency. Our start-up, SkyCool Systems, has recently completed a field trial in Davis, California, shown right here. In that demonstration, we showed that we could actually improve the efficiency of that cooling system as much as 12 percent in the field.

10:07

Over the next year or two, I’m super excited to see this go to its first commercial-scale pilots in both the air conditioning and refrigeration space. In the future, we might be able to integrate these kinds of panels with higher efficiency building cooling systems to reduce their energy usage by two-thirds.And eventually, we might actually be able to build a cooling system that requires no electricity input at all. As a first step towards that, my colleagues at Stanford and I have shown that you could actually maintain something more than 42 degrees Celsius below the air temperature with better engineering.

10:45

Thank you.

10:46

(Applause)

10:51

So just imagine that — something that is below freezing on a hot summer’s day. So, while I’m very excited about all we can do for cooling, and I think there’s a lot yet to be done, as a scientist, I’m also drawn to a more profound opportunity that I believe this work highlights. We can use the cold darkness of space to improve the efficiency of every energy-related process here on earth. One such process I’d like to highlight are solar cells. They heat up under the sun and become less efficient the hotter they are. In 2015, we showed that with deliberate kinds of microstructures on top of a solar cell, we could take better advantage of this cooling effect to maintain a solar cell passively at a lower temperature. This allows the cell to operate more efficiently. We’re probing these kinds of opportunities further. We’re asking whether we can use the cold of space to help us with water conservation. Or perhaps with off-grid scenarios. Perhaps we could even directly generate power with this cold. There’s a large temperature difference between us here on earth and the cold of space. That difference, at least conceptually, could be used to drive something called a heat engine to generate electricity. Could we then make a nighttime power-generation device that generates useful amounts of electricity when solar cells don’t work? Could we generate light from darkness?

12:23

Central to this ability is being able to manage the thermal radiation that’s all around us. We’re constantly bathed in infrared light; if we could bend it to our will, we could profoundly change the flows of heat and energy that permeate around us every single day. This ability, coupled with the cold darkness of space, points us to a future where we, as a civilization, might be able to more intelligently manage our thermal energy footprint at the very largest scales.

12:57

As we confront climate change, I believe having this ability in our toolkit will prove to be essential. So, the next time you’re walking around outside, yes, do marvel at how the sun is essential to life on earth itself, but don’t forget that the rest of the sky has something to offer us as well.

13:20

Thank you.

How to Learn English effectively through short stories (Video & Ebook)

Topic of the assignment

At first, you should listen three to four times. Don’t care much if you can’t listen accurately or miss the words. Just to help you to be acquaintance with the pronunciation and intonation of the speaker.

Why you have to learn listening skill first, please refer to this post: Big Secret for Mastering and Getting Fluent 4 English Skill Quickly

2. Reading

AZUZ: There are a whole lot of people in this world who love pandas just because they`re cute. Whether or not you agree with them, you can`t say pandas are graceful, at least not this one at the national zoo. First, he gets stuck and then hilariously covers his head like he`s ashamed, and after a few moments, the inevitable happens.

• Get stuck in: to start doing something enthusiastically
• Hilarious /hɪˈi.əs/ (adj): extremely funny and causing a lot of laughter

The zoo says he`s fine, that pandas are built to withstand falls from trees and shortly afterward, he`s up climbing again.

• Withstand(v) /wɪðˈstænd/: to be strong enough not to be harmed or destroyed by something

Panda fall, panda go bamboom! May fall he should try a different tree, like one strong as oak, a type less willowy that wouldn`t cause whipping, one more spruce up. There are deciduously better options, someone should have a conifierence with him so he doesn`t get left in the larch.

3. Vocabulary 

1. Get stuck in (phrasal verb): to start doing something enthusiastically
2. Hilarious /hɪˈi.əs/ (adj): extremely funny and causing a lot of laughter
3. Withstand(v) /wɪðˈstænd/: to be strong enough not to be harmed or destroyed by something
4. Willowy(adj) /ˈwɪl.əʊ.i/: (especially of a woman) graceful (= moving smoothly and attractively) and thin, tall, thin, and graceful
5. Oak(n) /əʊk/: a large tree that is common in northern countries, or the hard wood of this tree
6. Whipping(n) /ˈwɪp.ɪŋ/: an occasion when someone is punished by being hit with a whip or a belt
7. Spruce(n) /spruːs/: to improve the appearance of someone or something
8. Deciduous (adj)/dɪˈsɪdʒ.u.əs/: deciduous trees lose all their leaves each autumn. Trees that keep their leaves all year round are called evergreen.
9. Larch (n) /lɑːtʃ/: a tall tree that grows in cold northern countries and has leaves shaped like needles that it loses in winter

4. Listen Again

Souce: https://edition.cnn.com/cnn10

At first, you should listen three to four times. Don’t care much if you can’t listen accurately or miss the words. Just to help you to be acquaintance with the pronunciation and intonation of the speaker.

Why you have to learn listening skill first, please refer to this post: Big Secret for Mastering and Getting Fluent 4 English Skill Quickly

2. Reading

Next story is about a CNN Hero named Neal Bermas, a businessman who`d traveled the world but was stopped suddenly by something he saw in Vietnam back in 1999. It led him to create STREETS International, an organization that offers help with the career path to threatened people between the ages of 16 and 22. By the end of this year, almost 250 people will have completed the program.

NEAL BERMAS, CNN HERO: I first came to Vietnam almost 20 years ago. There were bands of these four homeless kids on the streets and they were begging for milk, not for money. It touched me in the way that I couldn`t divorce myself from it.

• Divorce(v) /dɪˈvɔːs/: to completely separate one thing from another so that they are not connected in any way

What`s this fish called? Is it sea bass, no?

I`m a classic New Yorker. I`m passionate and I`m full of energy. I also did a lot of consulting for hotels and restaurants.

I knew the opportunities and so I thought, well, we start to build a bridge here in Vietnam. I was just crazy enough to think that I could make that happen and here we are.

Hello, everybody.

CROWD: Hello!

BERMAS: The young people in our program come from the whole country, all kinds of very, very difficult past. We have kids with HIV background, kids from leprosy villages. Some were already been trafficked sometimes more than once.

• Leprosy(n)/ˈrə.si/: a serious disease that affects the skin, nerves, and bones and can cause people’s fingers and toes to fall off
• Traffic (v): to buy and sell goods illegally

The banana breads are done.

BERMAS: We offer a structured program for 18 months, either in culinary or hospitality, and a very extensive and important life goes program.

• Culinary(adj) /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ri/: connected with cooking or kitchens

Eating healthy.

English language instruction is a big part of what we do.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I have good English, I can talk to the guests.

BERMAS: You`ll do great.

Beautiful.

The flagship eatery is our restaurant. It`s traditional Vietnamese food.

• Flagship(n) ˈflæɡ.ʃɪp/: the best or most important product, idea, building

We have a rather large stretch of a campus between the housing where our young people live, our training center, our three different eateries. So, all the kids get a bicycle when they come to the program.

• Stretch(v) /stretʃ/: to cause something to reach, often as far as possible, in a particular direction
• Stretch(n) /stretʃ/: a continuous area of land or water (example: This particular stretch of coast is especially popular with hikers.)

Part of the process of selecting and then getting to know our trainees is we see wherever they`re from.

How is mom?

All the young people in our program come from poverty. Poverty without enough to eat. Poverty without electricity, without plumbing.

• Poverty(n) /ˈpɒv.ə.ti/: the condition of being extremely poor

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Before, we hungry a lot in my family here.

Mr. Neal, he helps me to know about how to cooking and English, listening. I get a good job so I had get some money for my family now.

BERMAS: She was employee of the year last year. She just finished STREETS a few years ago. It`s an amazing story.

We raised the aspirations of the whole village and the whole village starts to think about, oh, maybe my kid too.

• Aspiration(n) /ˌæs.pɪˈreɪ.ʃən/: something that you hope to achieve

At the end of 18 months, 100 percent of our kids are fully employed, mostly in four and five star international hotels.

There were certainly moments I thought, are you sure you really want to give up the Upper West Side of Manhattan and come live in Vietnam? But, of course, I did and it was probably the best if not certainly the most meaningful decision I made in my adult life.

3. Vocabulary 

1. Divorce(v) /dɪˈvɔːs/: to completely separate one thing from another so that they are not connected in any way
2. eprosy(n)/ˈrə.si/: a serious disease that affects the skin, nerves, and bones and can cause people’s fingers and toes to fall off
3. Traffic (v): to buy and sell goods illegally
4. Culinary(adj) /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ri/: connected with cooking or kitchens
5. Flagship(n) ˈflæɡ.ʃɪp/: the best or most important product, idea, building
6. Stretch(v) /stretʃ/: to cause something to reach, often as far as possible, in a particular direction
7. Stretch(n) /stretʃ/: a continuous area of land or water (example: This particular stretch of coast is especially popular with hikers.)
8. Poverty(n) /ˈpɒv.ə.ti/: the condition of being extremely poor
9. Aspiration(n) /ˌæs.pɪˈreɪ.ʃən/: something that you hope to achieve

4. Listen Again

Souce: https://edition.cnn.com/cnn10

At first, you should listen three to four times. Don’t care much if you can’t listen accurately or miss the words. Just to help you to be acquaintance with the pronunciation and intonation of the speaker.

Why you have to learn listening skill first, please refer to this post: Big Secret for Mastering and Getting Fluent 4 English Skill Quickly

2. Reading

AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:

What is the biggest factor in the price of gasoline (gas)?

Taxes, crude oil, distribution or refining costs?

The cost of crude oil is by far the biggest factor in what you pay for a gallon of gasoline.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNNMONEY, CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Hitting the road? This will likely be the most expensive summer driving season in years. Filling up the tank will cost 14 percent more than last summer. Summer gas already tends to be more expensive, because federal and state laws require cleaner fuel for the busy and hot summer months.

But what else goes into the cost of filling up?

• Go into (phrasal verb): to start doing a particular type of work

Well, those refining costs and profits are the smallest slice of what you pay at the pump. There`s also the cost of shipping and selling the gas itself and that depends on where you live. So do taxes, they make up about a fifth of the cost of your gasoline. But the biggest factor, it`s the price of crude oil and it`s rising.

• Refining(n): /rɪˈfaɪnɪŋ/: the process of making different products from a basic product, usually oil or sugar
• Crude(adj): /kruːd/ : oil from underground that has not yet been made into other products
• Slice(n) /slaɪs/: a flat piece of food that has been cut from something larger

AZUZ: There`s several reasons for that. One, the global economy is improving. When that`s at good shape, the demand for oil increases, causing its price to rise.

Two, political instability. Economic trouble in Venezuela, the ongoing civil war in Syria, uncertainty over the Iran nuclear deal, all of these things can cause oil prices to go up.

Three, major exporters of oil are pumping less of it. Some of them like Saudi Arabia want crude prices to be higher. Countries whose economies are dependent on oil sales generally have higher revenues when crude prices go up.

A downside to all of this though is what happens here.

• Downside(n) /ˈdaʊn.saɪd/: a disadvantage of a situation

The American Automobile Association says the U.S. national average for a gallon of gas is $2.86. That`s 52 cents higher per gallon than it was a year ago. And though it`s nowhere near the record of $4.11, hit in 2008, gas prices can eventually hurt the U.S. economy if they climb too high.

3. Vocabulary 

1. Go into (phrasal verb): to start doing a particular type of work
2. Refining(n): /rɪˈfaɪnɪŋ/: the process of making different products from a basic product, usually oil or sugar
3. Crude(adj): /kruːd/ : oil from underground that has not yet been made into other products
4. Slice(n) /slaɪs/: a flat piece of food that has been cut from something larger
5. Downside(n) /ˈdaʊn.saɪd/: a disadvantage of a situation

4. Listen Again

Souce: https://edition.cnn.com/cnn10

Example: Terrible and awful are synonyms because they have the same meaning

1. Amazing: incredible, unbelievable, improbable, fabulous, wonderful, fantastic, astonishing, astounding, extraordinary
2. Anger: enrage, infuriate, arouse, nettle, exasperate, inflame, madden
3. Angry: mad, furious, enraged, excited, wrathful, indignant, exasperated, aroused, inflamed
4. Answer: reply, respond, retort, acknowledge
5. Ask: question, inquire of, seek information from, put a question to, demand, request, expect, inquire, query, interrogate, examine, quiz
6. Awful: dreadful, terrible, abominable, bad, poor, unpleasant
7. Bad: evil, immoral, wicked, corrupt, sinful, depraved, rotten, contaminated, spoiled, tainted, harmful, injurious, unfavorable, defective, inferior, imperfect, substandard, faulty, improper, inappropriate, unsuitable, disagreeable, unpleasant
8. Beautiful: pretty, lovely, handsome, attractive, gorgeous, dazzling, splendid, magnificent, comely, fair, ravishing, graceful, elegant, fine
9. Begin: start, open, launch, initiate, commence, inaugurate, originate
10. Big: enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great
11. Brave: courageous, fearless, dauntless, intrepid, plucky, daring, heroic
12. Break: fracture, rupture, shatter, smash, wreck, crash, demolish, atomize
13. Bright: shining, shiny, gleaming, brilliant, sparkling, shimmering, radiant, vivid, colorful
14. Calm: quiet, peaceful, still, tranquil, mild, serene, smooth, composed, collected
15. Come: approach, advance, near, arrive, reach
16. Cool: chilly, cold, frosty, wintry, icy
17. Crooked: bent, twisted, curved
18. Cry: shout, yell, yowl, scream, roar
19. Cut: slit, chop, crop, reduce
20. Dangerous: perilous, hazardous, risky, uncertain, unsafe
21. Dark: shadowy, unlit, murky, gloomy, black
22. Decide: determine, settle, choose, resolve
23. Definite: certain, sure, positive, determined, clear, distinct, obvious
24. Delicious: savory, delectable, appetizing, scrumptious, delightful, enjoyable
25. Describe: portray, characterize, picture, narrate, relate, recount, represent, report, record
26. Destroy:ruin, demolish, raze, waste, kill, slay, end, extinguish
27. Difference: disagreement, inequity, contrast, dissimilarity, incompatibility
28. Do: execute, enact, carry out, finish, conclude, effect, accomplish, achieve
29. Dull: boring, tiring,, tiresome, uninteresting, slow, dumb, stupid
30. Eager: keen, fervent, enthusiastic, involved, interested
31. End: stop, finish, terminate, conclude, close
32. Enjoy: appreciate, delight in, be pleased, like
33. Explain: elaborate, clarify, define, interpret, justify, account for
34. Fair: just, impartial, unbiased, objective, honest
35. Fall: drop, descend, plunge, topple, tumble
36. False: fake, fraudulent, counterfeit, spurious, untrue
37. Famous: well-known, renowned, celebrated, famed
38. Fast: quick, rapid, speedy, fleet, hasty, quickly
39. Fat: stout, corpulent, fleshy, beefy
40. Fear: fright, dread, terror, alarm, dismay, anxiety, scare, awe, horror
41. Fly: soar, hover, flit, wing
42. Funny: humorous, amusing, droll, comic
43. Get: acquire, obtain, secure, procure, gain
44. Go: recede, depart, fade, disappear, move, travel, proceed
45. Good: excellent, fine, superior, wonderful, marvelous, qualified, suited, suitable
46. Great: noteworthy, worthy, distinguished, remarkable, grand, considerable, powerful
47. Gross: improper, rude, coarse, indecent, crude
48. Happy: pleased, contented, satisfied, delighted, elated, joyful, cheerful
49. Hate: despise, loathe, detest, abhor, disfavor, dislike
50. Have: hold, possess, own, contain, acquire, gain
51. Help: aid, assist, support, encourage
52. Hide: conceal, cover, mask, cloak
53. Hurry…
54. Hurt
55. Idea
56. Important
57. Interesting
58. Keep
59. Kill
60. Lazy
61. Little
62. Look
63. Love
64. Make
65. Mark
66. Mischievous
67. Move
68. Moody
69. Neat
70. New
71. Old
72. Part
73. Place
74. Plan
75. Popular
76. Predicament
77. Put
78. Quiet
79. Right
80. Run
81. Say/Tell
82. Scared
83. Show
84. Slow
85. Stop
86. Story
87. Strange
88. Take
89. Tell
90. Think
91. Trouble
92. True
93. Ugly
94. Unhappy
95. Use
96. Wrong

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After listening, take the script of this dialogue below, read out loud and slowly to remember how the word is pronounced and highlight as well look for the meaning of all the useful words includes collocations, idioms, phrasal.

When you understand the words, listen again around 1-2 times to figure out the content of dialogue

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How to Speak English Fluently like American Speakers in 1 Month – Part 1,2

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2. Reading

Great to see you watching as we kick off (start) a new week of CNN 10. Our season runs through Friday, June 1st. So, we have three weeks left on the air, starting today.

• Kick off (phrasal verb): start
• Run through (phrasal verb): to look at, examine, or deal with a set of things, especially quickly

And we start today with a by-the-numbers look at the dangerous situation on Hawaii`s big island. That`s where the notoriously active Kilauea volcano has been erupting again for about a week and a half now.

Something to sure look out for while visiting Hawaii.

• Notoriously(adv) /nəʊˈtɔː.ri.əs/: famous for something bad

The first number we have is almost 2,000. It`s how many residents have been evacuated since the volcano started this eruption. Dozens of homes have been destroyed by lava.

• Evacuate (v) /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/: to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe

Next, 12. That`s the distance in miles away from the crater that ash plumes could cover if an explosive eruption occurs. Scientists expect more of those in the days ahead and new lava flows are also possible.

• Crater /ˈkreɪ.tər/: the round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this
• Ash(n) /æʃ/: the soft grey or black powder that is left after a substance

Two-point-nine million is the estimated cost in dollars that Hawaiian officials expect will be needed to protect residents affected by the eruption and that`s for the next 30 days. U.S. President Donald Trump declared a major disaster in Hawaii on Friday. What does that is free up federal money and resources to help those affected?

Eighteen is the number of fissures, cracks on the ground where lava is seeping or spewing out, all caused by this eruption. Some of the fissures are miles away from Kilauea`s crater itself.

• Fissure (n)/ˈfɪʃ.ər/: a deep, narrow crack in rock or the earth
• Seep(v) /siːp/: spread slowly out of a hole
• Spew(v) /spjuː/: If something spews liquid or gas, or liquid or gas spews from something, it flows out in large amounts

And that last number here is 1924. That`s the year when the Kilauea Volcano last behaved like this, according to some scientists. It was active for about three weeks then, sending ash high into the air and blasting blocks, weighing as much as 14 tons.

Now for a scientific look at how this eruption is playing out beneath the surface.

• Beneath(preposition) /bɪˈniːθ/: a lower position than someone or something
• Play out (phrasal verb): it happens and develops

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IVAN CABRERA, CNN METEOROLOGIST: This is the layout here of Leilani Estates. There`s the evacuation zone. There are closed roads. The new fissures have impacted the eastern area. So, we`ll continue to monitor that, but this whole area, folks have been taken out of the way with good reason as you can imagine, as these things continue to pop out just every few hours, every day or so.

• Folk(n) /fəʊk/: people, especially those of a particular group or type
• Pop out (phrasal verb): suddenly come out, if words pop out, you say them suddenly without thinking about it first (example: I didn’t mean to say that – it just popped out.)

This is the lake, of course. This is the account (ph) that I`ve been showing you the last few days, noticing that as the lake drained its lava, it went underground and that`s the lava that`s coming up to the fissures. I think again, that`s going to be the main threat.

• Drain(v) /dreɪn/: to let liquid flow away from something

Notice as this continues to go down over the last several days, and one of our last pictures here, we can`t see the lava anymore. That`s an infrared camera, so the red you`re seeing there, that basically just heats signature here.

• Infrared(adj) /ˌɪn.frəˈred/: Infrared light is a type of light that feels warm but cannot be seen

So, as that lava drops into the crater and into the basically a water table, let`s talk about what could potentially happen as far as this explosive eruption here as we check in with our volcano. There`s the lava and again what happens is, you get these rocks that will continue to fall down and that will create a blockage. And I don`t have to tell you what happens with the kinds of temperatures we`re seeing in here. We`re talking about temperatures well into 1,500 to 2,000 Celsius, right?

• Water table(n): the level below the Earth’s surface where water is found
• Blockage (n) /ˈblɒk.ɪdʒ/: something that stops something else passing through
• Well(n): a deep hole in the ground from which you can get water, oil, or gas

Those rocks blocking that passageway at some point are going to give and once that goes into the water tables as you see there, we`re going to have

• Passageway(n) /ˈpæsɪdʒweɪ/: a long narrow area with walls on each side that leads from one room or place to another 

watch out — quite an explosion here.

But again, I`m really not too concerned about this. It`s going to be a spectacular eruption when it happens, but I think, Cyril, because they have evacuated people out of the way, these boulders would sometimes can be the size of a school bus are not going to be impacting many folks. This is going to be within a few meters of the crater here and before that happens, you must imagine people will be getting out of the way, and that`s why they
closed the National Volcano Park there on the big island.

• Boulder(n) /ˈbəʊl.dər/: a very large rock

3. Vocabulary 

1. Kick off (phrasal verb): start
2. Run through (phrasal verb): to look at, examine, or deal with a set of things, especially quickly
3. Notoriously(adv) /nəʊˈtɔː.ri.əs/: famous for something bad
4. Evacuate (v) /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/: to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe
5. Crater /ˈkreɪ.tər/: the round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this
6. Ash(n) /æʃ/: the soft grey or black powder that is left after a substance
7. Fissure (n)/ˈfɪʃ.ər/: a deep, narrow crack in rock or the earth
8. Seep(v) /siːp/: spread slowly out of a hole
9. Spew(v) /spjuː/: If something spews liquid or gas, or liquid or gas spews from something, it flows out in large amounts
10. Beneath (preposition) /bɪˈniːθ/: a lower position than someone or something
11. Play out (phrasal verb): it happens and develops:
12. Folk(n) /fəʊk/: people, especially those of a particular group or type
13. Pop out (phrasal verb): suddenly come out, if words pop out, you say them suddenly without thinking about it first (example: I didn’t mean to say that – it just popped out.)
14. Drain(v) /dreɪn/: to let liquid flow away from something
15. Infrared(adj) /ˌɪn.frəˈred/: Infrared light is a type of light that feels warm but cannot be seen
16. Water table(n): the level below the Earth’s surface where water is found
17. Blockage (n) /ˈblɒk.ɪdʒ/: something that stops something else passing through
18. Well(n): a deep hole in the ground from which you can get water, oil, or gas
19. Passageway(n) /ˈpæsɪdʒweɪ/: a long narrow area with walls on each side that leads from one room or place to another 
20. Boulder(n) /ˈbəʊl.dər/: a very large rock

4. Listen Again

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My first call was to the pitcher’s wife. She quickly assented (to agree) to an interview in a bar near the stadium. I had a presentiment that the interview wasn’t going to go smoothly. By the time I arrived, she looked to be drowning her sorrows in her fifth or sixth martini. I asked about her husband’s activities the day he went missing.
She started rambling about their marital problems and how he wasn’t any good to her. When she got to the point, I found out that they’d had a huge fight that morning about an affair he’d been having with the team owner’s daughter. He stormed out of the house, and she hadn’t seen him since.
I decided to circumvent (to go around) the usual routes to meeting Lola McCurvy, the owner’s daughter, by  staking out her favoring beauty salon. I don’t like to deal with a lot of personal assistants and such when I need to talk to someone. Miss McCurvy seemed quite incredulous (doubtful) that I would want to speak with her about Thompson.

“Why talk to me? My relationship with George was a transitory (not lasting, temporary) affair. It only lasted for a couple of months. I dumped him over three weeks ago,” she purred.

“What were you doing Monday between 10 am and 8 pm?” I asked.

“If you are asking if I have an alibi (an excusecor explanation), I’m afraid it isn’t a great one. I wasn’t feeling well that day, so I stayed home in bed. My maid came in a couple of times to bring me a cup of tea and a snack.
You can check with her.”
“Oh, I will.”

I’m usually an optimist (a person who looks on the bright side), which is rare for a PI, but I was beginning to doubt whether I’d find Thompson before the playoffs began, and if I did, whether he’d be alive. I was going to have to take decisive (definite, clear) steps to track him down. I needed to interview his teammates one by one starting with the first baseman Hernandez. It was widely known that he and Thompson had a strong aversion to each other. It was going to be a long day.