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Listen to the following video, try to get the main points, and answer the questions later.

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1. How many years have the mosquitoes been around?
2. What are the common characteristics of the mosquitoes mentioned in the material?
3. Can animals contract mosquito-borne diseases?
4. What would happen if mosquitoes became extinct?

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Rose Eveleth: The loathsome lethal mosquito

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Everyone hates mosquitos. Besides the annoying buzzing and biting, mosquito-borne diseases like malaria kill over a million people each year (plus horses, dogs and cats). And over the past 100 million years, they've gotten good at their job -- sucking up to three times their weight in blood, totally undetected.

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Learn/Practice English with MOVIES (Lesson #8) Title: Wreck-it Ralph

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Words that will help you remember the storyline

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Discuss your answers with your classmates

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Discuss your answers with your classmates

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Answer
1. Mosquitoes have been around for over a hundred million years and 
over that time have coevolved with all sorts of species, including our own. 
2. They all share one insidious quality: they suck blood. 
3. Horses, dogs, cats, they can all get diseases from mosquitoes too.
4. Getting rid of the mosquito removes a food source for lots of organisms, 
like frogs and fish and birds. Without them, plants would lose a pollinator.

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only play from 6:45-12:26

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Beauty and the Beast bedtime story for children | Beauty and the Beast Songs for Kids

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the beauty, the beast, beauty’s father, beauty’s sisters.

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Do you think it was difficult? Would you focus on the storyline or on the vocabulary that you did not understand?

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Use social media to make friends with native speakers for the purpose of practising your second language, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat etc.

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a.     What lecture is at 10 am on Tuesday?

b.     What days of the week are pronunciation classes held?

c.     Which day is the busiest?

d.     There is no class on Friday. True or False?

e. What time do I get to enjoy the weekend?

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Subtitle

What's the worst bug on the planet? You might vote for the horsefly or perhaps the wasp, but for many 
people, the worst offender is by far the mosquito. The buzzing, the biting, the itching, the mosquito 
is one of the most commonly detested pests in the world. In Alaska, swarms of mosquitos can get so 
thick that they actually asphyxiate caribou. And mosquito-borne diseases kill millions of people 
every year. The scourge that is the mosquito isn't new. Mosquitoes have been around for over a 
hundred million years and over that time have coevolved with all sorts of species, including our own. 
There are actually thousands of species of mosquitos in the world, but they all share one insidious 
quality: they suck blood, and they're really, really good at sucking blood. Here's how they do it. 
After landing, a mosquito will slather some saliva onto the victim's skin, which works like an 
antiseptic, numbing the spot so we don't notice their attack. This is what causes the itchy, red 
bumps, by the way. Then the bug will use its serrated mandibles to carve a little hole in your skin, 
allowing it to probe around with its proboscis, searching for a blood vessel. When it hits one, the 
lucky parasite can suck two to three times its weight in blood. Turns out we don't really like that
 too much. In fact, humans hate mosquitos so much that we spend billions of dollars worldwide to keep 
them away from us -- from citronella candles to bug sprays to heavy-duty agricultural pesticides. But
 it's not just that mosquitos are annoying, they're also deadly. Mosquitos can transmit everything 
from malaria to yellow fever to West Nile virus to dengue. Over a million people worldwide die every 
year from mosquito-borne diseases, and that's just people. Horses, dogs, cats, they can all get 
diseases from mosquitoes too. So, if these bugs are so dastardly, why don't we just get rid of them? 
We are humans after all, and we're pretty good at getting rid of species. Well, it's not quite so 
simple. Getting rid of the mosquito removes a food source for lots of organisms, like frogs and fish
 and birds. Without them, plants would lose a pollinator. But some scientists say that mosquitos 
aren't actually all that important. If we got rid of them, they argue, another species would simply 
take their place and we'd probably have far fewer deaths from malaria. The problem is that nobody 
knows what would happen if we killed off all the mosquitos. Something better might take their spot or 
perhaps something even worse. The question is, are we willing to take that risk? (Buzzing)