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📝 #Vocabulary

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💬 Amazing Fact

A: Hey, I’m reading this really interesting article about the human body.
B: Yeah? Well, we know all about that from biology lessons.

A: No, we didn’t learn much at all at school! They’re discovering loads more things all the time. Really amazing things! Did you know that only about one tenth of the cells in your body are really you? The rest are bacteria.
B: What? I’m not really me?

A: No, of course you are you, but you also have millions, or trillions, of bacteria in you.
B: Eeeeuuugh!

A: No, they’re mostly really helpful. Someone did an experiment to see if animals can live without bacteria, and he found that a lot of them died or had to have a special diet. Animals need bacteria to digest food, you see. So we’re better off with bacteria.
B: Unless the bacteria are bad.

A: Unless they are bad, but they’re nearly all good. Oh yeah, and going back to cells, do you know how many cells you have in your body?
B: Quite a lot, I’d say. A good few.

A: Yeah, but how many?
B: I don’t know. I’m not mathematical.

A: 7 octillion! That’s 7 plus 27 noughts.
B: I knew it was a lot.

A: OK, that’s an amazingly huge number, almost impossible to imagine. But the really weird thing is that most of the atoms are empty space, just air or nothingness. And if you took out the empty space, you could fit your body inside a tiny cube which measures one 500th of a centimetre on either side. That’s a box measuring 0.002 of a centimetre on each side. You’d be much too small to see.
B: Mmm, I can imagine that. It sounds like something that would happen in a really bad Hollywood movie. You know, a mad scientist goes: (funny voice) ‘I’m going to extract all the air from your body’. OK, enough facts for one day.

A: Don’t go! One last thing, did you know …
B: No.

A: Did you know that you probably have mites in your eyelashes?
B: Mites in my eyelashes? What are mites exactly anyway?

A: Yeah, they’re very small creatures, like insects, only not insects. They’re about a third of a millimetre long, so you can’t really see them. These particular mites live in eyelashes and eyebrows.
B: But in mine?

A: Well, maybe not. Only about 50% of people have them, and more older people. So you might not have any. Anyway, they’re completely harmless, they just eat dead skin.
B: Yeah, right, harmless. I really would have preferred not to know that.

A: Sorry.
B: I mean, really!

💭 A Lost Button
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A: A button came off my shirt.
B: What are you going to do?

A: First, I have to find the button.
B: Where did you lose it?

A: I have no idea.
B: A button is hard to find. Did you look in your pant cuffs?

A: That's a good idea.
B: I found a button in my pant cuffs one time.

A: Let me look. No, it's not there.
B: Many shirts come with an extra button.

A: You're right. This one does have an extra button.
B: Now all you have to do is sew it on.


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💭 Did You Say Something?
° ° ° ° ° هل قلت شيئا؟

A: I have to go to the bathroom.
B: You drink too much coffee.

A: But I love coffee.
B: Well, it's your life.

A: You eat too much chocolate.
B: I don't think so.

A: Have you looked in the mirror?
B: Do you think I'm getting fat?

A: I didn't say that.
B: What did you say?

A: I said I have to go to the bathroom.
B: That's what I thought you said.


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💭 Washed and Folded
° ° ° ° ° مغسولة ومطوية

A: Did you do the laundry?
B: Yes, I did.

A: What did you wash?
B: I washed the sheets and towels.

A: What about the pillowcases?
B: Yes, I took them off the pillows and washed them.

A: Did you dry everything in the dryer?
B: Yes, I dried everything in the dryer.

A: Then what did you do?
B: I folded all the towels.

A: Did you put the sheets on the beds?
B: Yes, and I put the pillowcases on the pillows.


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#locale n.
📖 a small area or place where something specific happens.
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🔊 The spa was the perfect( ..........) for my mother to relax and enjoy her vacation.

#audible
📖 loud enough to be heard.
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🔊 The sound of the drums was (..........) from miles away.

#confer
📖 to discuss something with someone to make a decision
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🔊 I will have to ( ......... ) with my wife before I can purchase a new car.

#endeavor
📖 an attempt to do something, especially something new or original.
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🔊 The company’s new advertising (............) ended in a horrible failure.

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📽 Watch the video carefully then identify the sentence you listened to;