TH Dịch - G5 - Reading collection for 6 topics by nxquynh nxquynh https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t A compilation of great articles about 6 topics en-us 2021-10-05 02:21:31 UTC 2023-03-25 17:31:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Facebook smart glasses nxquynh https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1791463598 On Thursday, Facebook introduced its first smart glasses, and it became the latest company which tried to make smart glasses mainstream.

Wearers will be able to take photos and make short videos and then easily post them on social media. They can also make calls and listen to music and podcasts with the glasses. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook´s founder and CEO, said that phones were not the most important device anymore and that smart glasses wearers could interact with the device and with people around them at the same time.

In 2013, the company Google introduced its Google glass, but people did not like how it looked. That is why Facebook worked together with the company Ray-Ban. Ray-Ban is a leader in eye wear, and people love its style. Facebook hopes that people will love its smart glasses and that it will change the way how they see the world.

Difficult words: mainstream (something that many people think is normal), interact (to communicate with or react to each other), eye wear (things which people wear on the eyes).

]]> 2021-10-05 02:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1791463598 A flying boat nxquynh https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795080946 Athletes in France competed in the first ever flying boat race, a new type of foil cycling that allows cyclists to ´fly on water´ aboard pedal-powered boats.

Annecy-based startup JetCycle created the boats. According to JetCycle´s CEO Nicolas Picard, the pedaling system resembles the concept of boat cycling while laying down.

However, there is an innovation of foil at the front and at the back. A pushing system allows pedaling at the speed of around 9 kilometers per hour, and it start a small flight controller, just like in a plane, to fly on water by using the foil.

This mix between sailing and cycling is intended to be a new fitness activity with no carbon dioxide emissions. It combines performance, endurance, and the pleasure for boat sports. Sold for 12,000 euros each, the JetCycle is for rental professionals, and Picard hopes to sell 100 JetCycles within three years.

Difficult words: innovation (a new method or idea), propulsion (the action of driving or pushing forwards), carbon dioxide emissions (the gas that comes from vehicles which move), endurance (the ability to do something for a long time).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795080946 Super-Fast Go-Kart ( NHÓM 8) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795115581 A 26-year-old Englishman won a Guinness World Record for the fastest go-kart, as it is propelled by a jet engine and reached 180,71 kilometres per hour.

The go-kart took him 12 months to complete. The creator, Tom, said that things were catching fire or blowing up as he worked on it.



]]> 2021-10-06 02:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795115581 Piano star (Nhóm 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795116861 Brigitte Xie is a four-year-old girl, and she can play the piano very well.

Brigitte started piano lessons on Zoom about a year ago during the lockdown. When her father signed her up, he did not think that Brigitte would be so good at playing the piano.

Brigitte first met her piano teacher when she was three years and two months old. The teacher saw that the little girl was very interested in playing, and she wanted to learn more and more. Brigitte learned to read music, and she even learned to play a piece of classical music from Beethoven.

Brigitte became the youngest winner of the Elite International Music Competition. It gave her the chance to play at Carnegie Hall in New York as a part of a talent competition. The date of the event changed to November 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Difficult words: lockdown (the time when people cannot go to some places because it is not safe), sign up (to put someone´s name on a list in order to join something), classical music (music from the 18th and 19th century).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795116861 Skiing in Africa（nhóm9） https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795122599
When you imagine Africa, you probably imagine white sandy beaches or lions wandering across savannas. Surprisingly, the continent is also attractive for skiers who are looking for more unusual destinations.

There are five mountain ranges in Africa which have enough snow for skiing. One of them is the mountain kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa. People are surprised how good the snow is. Under a bright sun, skiers and snowboarders can enjoy the snow which they would expect to find in the Alps.

Last year was very bad for the resort in Lesotho. Many places closed, and it was not possible to travel to Africa because of the coronavirus. Usually, around 17,000 people visit the place every year. In 2020, there were almost no visitors, and this year, the number of visitors was about a half of the usual number.

Difficult words: savanna (a dry area where only grass grows, and there are almost no trees), destination (a famous place to visit), resort (a place where people usually go for holidays).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795122599 Tokyo 2020 Olympics begin (nhóm 2) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795122720 The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games started on Friday. More than 11,300 athletes from 207 countries will compete in 33 sports.

COVID-19 cases increased quickly in Japan in the past few weeks, and officials decided to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo. Many Japanese people wanted to cancel or postpone the Olympics again, but it did not happen. Athletes started to arrive, and 11 people already tested positive for the coronavirus. These athletes must stay in their hotel rooms, and they cannot compete.

Organizers say that safety is the most important thing, and athletes must follow many rules. They must wear a mask, and they must keep distance. There will be no spectators at the Olympics, and athletes will put medals on their necks themselves.

Difficult words: compete (to take part in a match or game), declare (to announce officially that something is happening), spectator (a person who comes to watch a match or game).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795122720 A runner must leave the Olympics – level 2 (nhóm 10) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795127253 A runner must leave the Olympics – level 2

Belarusian runner Krystsina Tsimanouskaya received a Polish visa, and she is in the Polish embassy in Tokyo, Japan.

The athlete said that she was not happy with the way that officials managed her team. She said that the officials put her in the 4x400m relay, which she never ran before. After that, the officials did not let her run in the 200 meters.

This caused a strong negative reaction in the Belarus state news. Team officials forced the runner to leave the Olympic Games early. They asked her to fly back to Belarus, but she refused to do it.

Tsimanouskaya asked sports officials to find out who decided that she must leave the Olympic Games. She wants to continue running in the future, but the most important thing for her now is that she is safe.

Difficult words: visa (a document which says that someone can stay in a country), relay (a race when each member of a team runs a part of the race), refuse (to not do something).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

]]> 2021-10-06 02:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795127253 Italy wins the UEFA European Championship (Nhóm 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795129443 England´s bid to end their 55-year wait for a major trophy ended in the familiar agony of defeat in a penalty shootout as Italy claimed the Euro 2020 crown at Wembley, UK.

England looked on course for their most joyous day when Luke Shaw gave them the perfect start after just two minutes. Italy, unbeaten in 33 matches before the final, slowly edged their way back into the game, and they were level in the 67th minute when Leonardo Bonucci scored. After a tense period of extra time, it was on to penalties. England missed three of their five penalties; however, three players scored for Italy.

Italy has won their first European Championship title in 53 years, which is the longest gap between championships in the tournament by a single nation. At 3 years and 71 days, Italy´s Leonardo Bonucci became the oldest player ever to score in a European Championship final.

Difficult words: agony (extreme physical or mental suffering), shootout (a shooting competition that is used to determine the winner of a game which is tied at the end of regular play), on course (to go towards something), edge (to move gradually in a particular direction).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795129443 A model is not pretty anymore(NHÓM 8) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795131256 Former supermodel Linda Evangelista filed a 50-million-dollar lawsuit over cosmetic procedures that she said left her brutally disfigured and turned her into a someone who stays away from other people.

In the 1990s, the Canadian model was one of the most famous people to be in modeling and on magazine covers. Last week, she said on social media that she had done treatments for fat reduction five years ago on her thighs, abdomen, back, and chin.

She said that she suffered a rare side effect called paradoxical adipose hyperplasia after the procedures. This side effect causes people to develop swelling in the areas that were treated. Evangelista admitted it destroyed her livelihood, as she hadn´t earned anything from modeling since 2016, and it sent her into deep depression.

Evangelista filed the lawsuit against company Zeltiq Aesthetic for negligence, misleading advertising, and saying that the company failed to warn customers of the possible side effects.

]]> 2021-10-06 02:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795131256 Abba is back (nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795132555 Abba is a Swedish band that has two singers and two songwriters who started working together in 1972.

In 1974, Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest, and after that, the band became popular around the world. Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fӓltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Bjӧrn Ulvaeus sold almost 400 million singles and albums worldwide.

In 2018, they met in a studio again, and they promised two new songs. Later, they decided to do a whole album, but there was a long delay. The band announced that they would release the album Voyage on November 5th.

There will be a special concert in London, England, where holograms of the artists will sing alongside a live band. Fans will also get the chance to see a video on the band´s comeback.

]]> 2021-10-06 02:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795132555 Glass bridge in China (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795134861 In China, people erected a bridge with a glass bottom and invited other people to hit it with sledgehammers to test its strength.

This really took some courage because the bridge is 300 metres above the ground. However, these people were harnessed to the side of the bridge.

An Israeli architect is behind this project and he says that this bridge is the largest glass bridge in the world.

]]> 2021-10-06 02:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795134861 G1: BEER YOGA https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795135216 People in Cambodia could not go to exercise classes for six weeks because the country was in a lockdown. Officially, nobody died there from COVID-19 in the country, and the lockdown ended on January 1.

A brewery came up with a new way to exercise and it offered beer yoga classes. One class lasted 60 minutes and no more than 12 people could attend the same class. One class cost eight dollars and the price included one beer that people could drink during the class. Some people did not like yoga classes because they were boring for them. But they enjoyed beer yoga, which was more about meeting friends than exercising. It was their time for fun after work.

Beer yoga started in the US in 2013 and it appeared in many parts of the world. It became popular only for a short time.

Difficult words: lockdown (a situation when many public places are closed and people must stay at home), brewery (a factory which makes beer), include (to be a part of something).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795135216 Love Is in the Air (Nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795137107 Maybe it’s the excitement of the Games or the heat from the sun, but it seems like love is in the air in Rio.

A Chinese diver’s boyfriend proposed to her whilst on the podium. Her boyfriend said that his heart was beating so hard because he did not know what she would say. Thankfully, she said yes.

This comes after a Brazilian rugby sevens player’s girlfriend proposed to her on the pitch after the grand final. Other Olympic love birds include a British 20-kilometre race walker who proposed to his boyfriend on Copacabana Beach and an American triple jumper who proposed to his girlfriend after winning a silver medal in his event.

And this is not just the Olympians – the rest of the city is feeling the love, too. There must be something in the water in Rio.

Difficult words: excitement (happiness), pitch (the place where you play rugby).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795137107 Nhóm 9 Plane drops fish https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795138285 Utah authorities released a very interesting video. In the video, workers loaded fish onto a plane, and then, the plane flew to a lake. When the plane was flying just above the lake, it dropped the fish in the water below.

Utah and other US states put fish into lakes for many years, but then the method changed. In the past, fish traveled in milk cans, and horses took them to the right place. Today´s method is quicker, cheaper, and experts say that it is less stressful for the fish.

The fish end up in lakes where there are no other fish, which means that they cannot have a negative impact on other fish populations. Experts said that most fish survived the drop without injury.

Difficult words: method (a way of doing something), population (a large group of people or animals who live in the same place), survive (to continue to live after something dangerous or difficult happens).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795138285 25 years of Mr Bean (N4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795138497 Mr Bean made an unexpected return to the streets of London this week. The British comedy legend headed to Buckingham Palace to celebrate 25 years of success.

“Well, I’m just going to have some old birthday party. It’s just me and my friend, my friend Teddy. Yes, yes, it’s today! It is, it’s today, my birthday, so I brought all my presents. They’re in the car.”

“Did Teddy get you a present?”

“No… Oh, I think he might have done it. He just hasn’t told me where it is.”

Commuters and tourists looked on in surprise as Mr Bean, played by actor Rowan Atkinson, navigated the country’s most famous roads and parks on top off his iconic lime-green mini.

Mr Bean’s antics have been enjoyed by fans in over 190 territories around the world, and even now 25 years since his first appearance, he continues to attract new audiences with 1.5 billion views of his clips on YouTube and almost 63 million fans on Facebook.

Difficult words: commuter (a person who commutes – travels to work daily), iconic (famous), antics (foolish or funny behaviour).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795138497 G1:Soccer Players Help https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795139387 The soccer star, Lionel Messi, and his teammates from FC Barcelona are taking a 70% pay cut.


According to a statement from the club, the players agreed to a salary reduction to help pay non-sporting FC Barcelona employees who are feeling the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The club said that the players´ contributions, along with additional funds from the club itself, will cover 100% of the salaries.

Messi is one of the world´s highest paid soccer players, and it is estimated that the pay cut could cost him about $50 million dollars. He said that he understands the exceptional situation, and he has always been ready to support the club when he felt that it was necessary or important.

Similar financial cutbacks happen in other clubs throughout Europe, as European countries continue to fight the coronavirus.
Difficult words: salary (the money that an employee gets for his work), teammate (the player of the same team), pay cut (when an employee´s salary is lower because there is a difficult situation).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795139387 Athletes have problems to get to Tokyo (NHÓM 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795140649 The Tokyo 2020 The Olympics are starting in less than three weeks, and athletes are having problems to get to the city.

Normally, it would not be a problem to get 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries to Tokyo. In many countries, COVID-19 cases are rising again, and some cities do not let people travel through. All athletes must be fully vaccinated, but some athletes already tested positive for COVID-19. Now, it is not clear if they will go to Tokyo or not.

Some athletes are not happy because they could not train in Tokyo, which is something that athletes usually do. They usually train in the city of the Olympics. They also had problems to get to the qualifying events because it was not possible to travel from one country to another.

Difficult words: train (to get ready for a match or game), qualifying event (a sporting event for athletes where they can officially make it possible to compete at another event if they have the right skills).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795140649 Japanese Sumo Champion (Nhóm5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795142690 A Japanese wrestler was crowned the grand champion of the country’s national sport. It was a historic day for Japan. For the last decade, the sport was dominated by wrestlers from Samoa, Hawaii and Mongolia. The last Japanese wrestler became champion of the sport in 1998.

The thirty-year-old wrestler won his first title at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. He had 14 wins and only 1 loss. During the ceremony, the wrestler said that he gladly accepts the title.

The wrestler said that he wants to become much stronger and work hard so that he can have good results. He received a traditional fish to mark the honor. He can celebrate, as he is a national hero now.

]]> 2021-10-06 02:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795142690 New ways to bury (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795143519 When someone dies, there are two ways that people usually follow for what to do with the dead body. One way is cremation, which means burning the body. The other way is burying the body in the ground.

Neither way is good for the environment. Cremation makes a lot of emissions, and burning in the ground takes up a lot of space. It also puts dangerous substances in the ground.

Natural Funeral is a US company which does water cremation and green burial. Water cremation is a process when workers put a dead body into water, and they mix it with some other substances. When the process ends, the body turns into a natural fertilizer.

Green burial is similar to composting. Workers put a dead body inside a special container with straw in it. They add some chemicals to help the composting. Both ways are legal in three US states, and the ways help the body return to nature where it came from.

]]> 2021-10-06 02:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795143519 Soccer Players Help (nhóm 4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795143983 FC Barcelona is the biggest soccer team in Europe, and it is cutting the salaries of its players.
The biggest star, Lionel Messi, and his teammates, agreed to a 70% pay cut. The club wants to support its non-sporting employees, who are losing money during the coronavirus. The club itself and the players will pay 100% of their salaries.
Messi is one of the highest paid soccer players in the world, and reports say that the pay cut can cost him about $50 million dollars. Messi said that he understands the situation, and he is ready to help his team.
The coronavirus is spreading across Europe, and it affects other soccer teams too. They decided to make similar cuts as FC Barcelona.
Difficult words: salary (the money that an employee gets for his work), teammate (the player of the same team), pay cut (when an employee´s salary is lower because there is a difficult situation).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795143983 G1: Swim in the Antarctic. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795144174 A British endurance swimmer swam in the Antarctic Ocean. He became the first person to swim at King Edward Cove.

He later explained why he is doing these swims. It is to call for the conservation of wildlife. This was one of his toughest swims because the water was just two degrees centigrade.

The 47-year-old lawyer was in the water for 18 minutes.

Difficult words: endurance swimmer (a swimmer who swims in difficult conditions), cove (a small bay), conservation (protection).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795144174 G1:Man Helps a Runner https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795144975 A runner at this year’s London Marathon fell down. He was exhausted. Another runner helped him up, but he fell down again. The finish line was only 200 metres away, so the man helped him to it.


It was nice of the man to help his competitor. People share this story on the Internet. The two runners became friends, and they want to meet at races in the future – next year’s London Marathon, as well.
Difficult words: exhausted (extremely tired), competitor (a person who is trying to be faster than you).
]]> 2021-10-06 02:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795144975 Nhóm 9. Dog surfing competition https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795145228 here was a surfing competition for dogs in California. Dogs of all sizes and breeds jumped on boards to see who was the best.

First prize for large dogs went to a dog from Hollywood. He is the current defending champion. Last year, he won all three competitions. He really loves to surf.

Owners at the beach said that their dogs really like surfing. You must know what your dog likes. Some dogs may like it, some may not.

Hundreds of people watched the event. Some owners even dressed up their pets as characters.

Difficult words: breed (kind), defending (he won the last competition), character (person in a book, play or film).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795145228 Super-Fast Go-Kart Nhóm 9 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795147354
A 26-year-old Englishman earned a Guinness World Record for creating the world’s fastest jet–propelled go-kart. Tom Bagnall took an interest in engineering as a child and has always been into mechanics.

This project took him 12 months to complete, and he admitted there have been quite a few ups and downs, as things were catching fire or blowing up.

However, after reaching 180,71 kilometres per hour, his hard work and passion for speed paid off.



]]> 2021-10-06 02:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795147354 Sport nhóm 3 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795147424 Manchester United are still a long way from getting the majority of their squad vaccinated against coronavirus and their rivals are getting frustrated with the club over the issue, according to reports. Sportsmail revealed last week that there is widespread opposition to vaccines among Premier League footballers, with almost two-thirds of top-flight players are yet to be fully jabbed, and many refusing altogether. 

Only a handful of Premier League clubs are believed to be close to 100 per cent vaccinated among their playing staff. Liverpool and Leeds are understood to be considered in that category, while fellow top-flight sides Wolves and Brentford have been public in stating recently that the majority of their squads have been jabbed.But according to The Times, Man United's lack of Covid-19 uptake has frustrated the rest of the league, who see the Red Devils as the biggest and most influential club in the country.

The report adds that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's squad are not close to the likes of Liverpool and Leeds in terms of their high vaccine uptake, despite the opposite message coming out of the club.]]> 2021-10-06 02:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795147424 G1: Transgender athlete at the Olympics https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795147921 New Zealand chose the first transgender athlete who will compete at the Tokyo Olympics.


Laurel Hubbard competed in men´s weightlifting before she decided to become a woman. In 2015, she became a woman, and since that time, she could compete in women´s weightlifting.

Hubbard will compete in the super heavyweight category, and some people will probably not be happy about it. Some people think that transgender athletes should not compete because it is not fair to the other athletes.

The International Olympic Committee changed the rules for transgender athletes who can compete if their levels of testosterone are low enough. Some scientists say that transgender women went through puberty as men, and therefore, it makes them better at sports than other women because they are taller or bigger.

Difficult words: transgender (a person who was born a man but he feels to be a woman, or  a person who was born a woman but she feels to be a man), testosterone (a hormone which makes the body look like a man), puberty (the time when a child is becoming an adult).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795147921 (Nhóm 6) Tokyo 2020 Olympics begin https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795150922 The Olympic flame for Tokyo 2020 has been lit as this year´s Olympics starts. More than 11,300 athletes from 207 nations will compete over the next couple of weeks in 33 sports.

Olympic groups landed amid the threat of the infectious delta variant that has triggered case surges throughout Asia. With Tokyo in a state of emergency throughout the Olympics after a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections, the Games have come under huge criticism from the Japanese public. The majority of them said that they wanted the Olympics to be canceled or postponed again. However, safety is paramount for the organizers, and huge precautions are being taken.

For the first time in history, events will be held without spectators, and winners will place their own medals around their necks. Athletes social distance in the Olympic Village, they must wear a face mask at all times, and they eat between plastic barriers in the cafeteria. Unfortunately, the virus has affected the Games already, with 11 positive cases among athletes.
Difficult words: surge (a sudden increase), paramount (more important than anything else), precaution (an action to prevent something dangerous or unpleasant).

You can watch the video news lower on this page.

]]> 2021-10-06 02:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795150922 G1: Burkina Faso´s first Olympic medal https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795153165 Hugues Fabrice Zango won Burkina Faso´s first-ever Olympic medal, as he claimed bronze in the men´s triple jump on the 13th day of the Tokyo Olympics.


The 28-year-old´s leap of 17.47 meters was 35 centimeters short of his African outdoor record that he set earlier this year. It was enough to claim third place just ahead of two-time Olympic silver-medalist Will Claye of the USA. Zango said that he was sad because he wasn´t able to produce his best performance; however, he believed that his country would get more medals in the next Olympics in Paris.

For Zango´s family, it was a tense viewing experience, as his first two jumps were disappointing. His mother was too nervous to watch; however, Zango eventually won, and his mother said that she couldn´t be prouder. The victory was made even more special, as it fell on the 61st anniversary of Burkina Faso´s Independence Day.
Difficult words: claim (to win), leap (a forceful jump), eventually (as the final result of a situation).

]]> 2021-10-06 02:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795153165 Rich Brothers (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795153899  
Three rich brothers each wanted to do something special for their old mother on her birthday. The first brother bought her a huge house.

The second brother gave her a big car, with a driver. The third brother remembered that his mother used to love to read the Bible, but couldn’t see well anymore, so he gave her a specially trained parrot that could read from the Bible.

Soon, the brothers received letters from their mother. The first letter said, “The house that you bought me is much too big. I only live in a small part of it, but I have to clean the whole house.”

The second son got a letter that said, “I don’t leave the house very often, so I don’t use the car very often. And when I use it, the driver is so rude.”

The third son got a letter that said, “My darling baby boy, you know what your mother loves. The chicken was very tasty.” 

]]> 2021-10-06 02:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795153899 Gangnam Style most-watched YouTube video( nhóm 4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795154440
 
 The video to the global smash hit song Gangnam Style has become the most-watched clip in YouTube's history. It has had almost 825 million views in the past five months and is moving quickly towards one billion. The video currently has 5,473,726 likes and 338,504 dislikes. Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber previously held the record for the most YouTube views with his 2010 blockbuster Baby. Gangnam Style is by 34-year-old South Korean singer Psy. His iconic dance and catchy tune have captured the imagination of millions of people worldwide. The video pokes fun at the glitzy Gangnam district of South Korea's capital Seoul. In it, he is seen dancing around the city pretending to ride a horse and twirl a lasso.
 
 Gangnam Style first appeared on YouTube in July. It took just five months to reach the 800-million mark, over two years quicker than Bieber's song. A statement from YouTube Trends called the rise in popularity of the video as "unprecedented". It said: "The video has been a massive hit at a global level unlike anything we've ever seen before. Each day, Gangnam Style is still being watched between 7 and 10 million times.]]> 2021-10-06 03:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795154440 G1: Church Comes Out of the Water https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795156951 In 1966, an area in Mexico flooded after the construction of a dam. One of the flooded buildings was a church. It was built in 1564 by Spanish colonists.

There is a drought in Mexico now. The water of the lake with the church inside it went down by 24 metres. The church isn’t underwater at the moment, so many people are coming to see it.

Ten years ago, the water was so low that you could walk around the church.

Difficult words: flood (to go underwater), dam (a big wall which stops water), drought (when there is no rain for a long time).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795156951 Singapore expats live together (Nhóm 8) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795158239 The coronavirus made things more difficult for expats in Singapore. They started to worry about their work, and sometimes, they did not have enough money to rent an apartment.

They found a solution called co-living. Co-living is when residents rent a room, and they share a kitchen or other rooms. It is a good way to save money, and some people like it also because they do not need to rent a room for the full year. Co-living is not the most popular way of living, but business operators say that the number of people who look for co-living, is growing.

The interesting fact is that people started to look for co-living during the coronavirus pandemic. Operators explained that in Singapore, the government works hard to stop the virus, and people are not afraid to live together.

Difficult words: expat (a person who lives outside of his own country), resident (a person who lives somewhere for a long time), operator (a person who runs something such as a business).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795158239 Money can buy Happiness ( Nhóm 7） https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795158271 A song from the famous English pop group the Beatles told us that money can't buy us love. Many people also believe that money cannot buy happiness. In fact, there is an expression that says money is the root of all evil. However, a new study from Cambridge University suggests that money can buy you happiness. Researchers conducted a study on the spending habits of customers in a bank. They compared what the bank customers bought with their personality. The research team compared the personalities of 625 people with a list of how they spent their money. The conclusion of the study was that what people buy can lead to happiness, but only if they buy the right things.
One of the researchers believes the study may change the way people think about money and happiness. He said it showed, "that spending can increase our happiness when it is spent on goods and services that fit our personalities". He said Internet companies could use information about people's happiness to recommend products and services that make people happier. Another researcher said spending money could be more important in our lives than we thought. She said: "Spending money on products that help us express who we are as individuals could turn out to be as important to our well-being as finding the right job, the right neighbourhood or even the right friends and partners."
]]> 2021-10-06 03:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795158271 Chocolate Fashion Show (nhóm 2) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795159332 Salon du Chocolat created clothing made of chocolate and models wore the creations at a fashion show in Paris which was part of an annual chocolate fair.

People say that the fair is the largest chocolate fair in the world. Chocolatiers, pastry chefs and confectioners come from across the world to this fair.

In the movie ‘Forrest Gump’, the main character said that, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get’. Clearly, fashion shows can be like boxes of chocolates, too!

Difficult words: chocolatier (a person who creates chocolate and things made out of chocolate), confectioner (a person who works with candy and sweets), Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. (this saying means that you do not know what life is going to be like in the future).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795159332 Porsche Electric Car (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795163037  
Recently, car company Porsche showed its first fully electric sports car called the Taycan. It is competition to the Tesla Model S.

Porsche’s CEO explained that the car drives very fast and completed a race track in less than 8 minutes. He said that the car runs about 300 miles while it carries luggage. He added that the battery charges from 5% to 80% in 22 minutes with quick-charging technology. 

]]> 2021-10-06 03:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795163037 G1: Minion balloon visits a museum https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795163164 Inside of a museum in England, someone left a helium balloon that looked like a cartoon character. A camera inside filmed the balloon bobbing around the art.


This was a funny situation because the cartoon character was from a movie about a man who steals things, so it seemed like the balloon was there to plan another heist.

Workers at the museum put the video on the Internet, and many people watched and enjoyed this balloon’s museum visit.
Difficult words: helium (a gas that makes things float), bob (to move up and down slowly), heist (a crime to steal things).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795163164 G1: Dancing thief. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795164430 This thief was so happy at finding a fifty-pound note in a stolen wallet that he did a little celebratory dance. 

Police have released this CCTV footage of the 31-year-old man, who took the wallet from a parked car in Birmingham. Sergeant Alan Lawless said, “We couldn’t believe it when we saw the footage. He was so happy at getting his hands on someone else’s cash that he did a little dance on the pavement. He may have felt like dancing at the time, but he looked pretty miserable when we knocked on his door to arrest him.”

The man, who has convictions for offences including shoplifting, criminal damage, and vehicle interference, was later jailed for two weeks after admitting theft. Dancing his ways behind bars!

Difficult words: note (paper money), footage (video), conviction (a decision that someone is guilty), interference (breaking into something).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795164430 A flying boat ( nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795164881

An unusual race happened in France last week. Athletes raced in ´flying boats´ which were boats that were powered by pedaling.

Nicolas Picard started the company JetCycle in 2020, but the idea of a flying boat came from two French professors in 2013. Picard explained that using a JetCycle boat looked like boat cycling. Then he put foil in the front and at the back, which made the boat fly. The boat cold move at the speed of around 9 kilometers per hour.

Picard hopes that people will enjoy this new activity, which combines sailing and cycling. One boat costs 12,000 euros, and Picard wants to sell 100 boats in the next three years.

Difficult words: pedal (to use your legs and feet to move a bicycle), foil (a piece of very thin material), combine (to put two or more things together to make one thing).










]]> 2021-10-06 03:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795164881 nxquynh https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795165144 1. Choose your favorite articles on www.newsinlevels.com or www.breakingnewsenglish.com
2. Pick articles from Level 2 and above.
3. Copy the article's URL and add post on Padlet, under the right column. (Right topic, Right level)
4. Don't forget the title and the content of the article.
5. Don't choose an article that HAS BEEN POSTED.
6. Write your group's number on top
7. Article's maximum word: 200

]]> 2021-10-06 03:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795165144 G1: Pig Likes to Paint https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795165892 People saved a sow in South Africa from slaughter and now she lives out her days in an animal sanctuary. Her keeper noticed that she was very intelligent, so she placed a few balls and some paintbrushes and things in her pen.



It wasn’t long before the keeper discovered that the sow really liked the paintbrush. People nicknamed the sow ‘Pigcasso’ for her talent and love for painting that is best described as abstract expressionism.

The sow’s life of creativity is in a sharp contrast with ones that most pigs live – confinement in crates.
Difficult words: sow (an adult female pig), pen (an animal’s area), confinement (being confined – kept in a small place like a prisoner), crate (an open box).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795165892 Nhóm 9. Line dancing record https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795166268 Twenty-five thousand, seven hundred and three people have set a new line dance Guinness World Record in China.

The participants were split into 17 different places in Hangzhou City before the challenge began.

And it was a triumph – they successfully smashed the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest line dance, overtaking the last world record of 17,000 participants in Atlanta, Georgia in 2007.

Elsewhere in Shanghai, people tried to smash the title for the most people eating breakfast in bed.

In London, there was the largest gathering of people dressed as penguins and in France, dancers broke the record for the largest number of can-can kicks in 30 seconds.

]]> 2021-10-06 03:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795166268 Hello Kitty is a girl, not a cat (N4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795166761 The Japanese toymaker Sanrio, creators of Hello Kitty, have told the truth about their character. They said Hello Kitty is not a cat. This news came because of publicity for a new Hello Kitty exhibition. Sanrio mailed exhibition organisers to say: "Hello Kitty is not a cat. She is a little girl. She is a friend….She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature." Sanrio added: "Kitty is a bright little girl with a heart of gold."
Hello Kitty has been amazingly popular since it started in 1974. She appears on everything, from chopsticks to airplanes. A Japanese carmaker even sold a Hello Kitty car. It had Kitty upholstery, a Kitty speedometer and a Kitty-shaped gear stick. Sanrio said the character represents cuteness and has no mouth because she speaks with her heart. A rapper tweeted about the news, saying: "This is worse than finding out Pluto is not a planet."


]]> 2021-10-06 03:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795166761 The coldest village in the world (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795167445  
Oymyakon is a Russian town that people claim is the coldest inhabited place on Earth. It lies far in Siberia’s Yakutia region where temperatures drop below minus 60.

One man says that it has been like this for years, explaining that when he was in school, it was minus 60 or 61 every year and now it stays like that for at least ten days in a row.

Oymyakon has another record—the Yakutian horse, which is small but perfectly formed and very hardy. 

]]> 2021-10-06 03:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795167445 G1: Dogs Smell Cancer https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795169824 Military dogs which used to protect soldiers now are trained for something else. Italian scientists are training them to sniff out prostate cancer in patients’ urine.



Dogs’ noses are very powerful, as they have up to 300 million sensors compared to only six million in humans. One dog was even able to identify the disease in a patient before the medical team.

However, you will not see dogs in hospitals any time soon. The team wants to develop an electronic tool which would work like the dog’s sense of smell.
Difficult words: sniff out (find by smell), urine (the scientific word for ‘pee’), develop (create, make).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795169824 Italy wins the UEFA European Championship( nhóm 2) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795170994 Italy wins the UEFA European Championship
On Sunday, Italy won the European Championship 2020 at Wembley, UK, when the team defeated England 3-2 on penalties.

The start of the match was great for England when they scored just after two minutes. It was a shock for Italy who won the last 33 matches before the final.  The team took a long time to recover, and they played much better in the second half. Italy´s Leonardo Bonucci scored in the 67th minute, and the game continued in overtime. Then nobody else scored, and it was necessary to decide the winner in a penalty shootout.

England scored only two penalties and Italy scored three, and they won their first European Championship in 53 years. England´s fans were very sad because the last time England won a European Championship was in 1966.
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]]> 2021-10-06 03:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795170994 The tallest statue in the world (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795173340  
People unveiled the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity, in Gujarat State in India. Including the 58-metre base, it is 240 metres tall – almost 100 metres taller than the second tallest statue, which is the Spring Temple Buddha in China.

It is a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a founding father of the Republic of India who played a leading role in the country’s struggle for independence. Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, said that it would keep reminding India and the whole world of his courage, capability and resolve.

The Statue of Unity is made of bronze, cost almost 430 million US dollars and took five years to build. 

]]> 2021-10-06 03:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795173340 G1: Dangerous Egyptian Haircut https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795174645 A relative once asked an Egyptian barber to cut his hair when the barber did not have his tools. Instead of rescheduling, he decided to get creative and used other tools.

There had to be something which the barber liked about cutting hair that way. He went on to cut people’s hair with a hammer, a razor a knife, or meat cleavers at his salon. ‘The Joker’, as people call the barber, hopes to inspire other young barbers to try his methods, too.

One customer said that he was scared and worried at first, but then he liked his haircut.

Difficult words: reschedule (to make plans to do something another time), meat cleavers (a tool with a heavy, broad blade, used for chopping meat).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795174645 Frozen waterfall in China (nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795174897 How’s this for a winter wonderland? With temperatures reaching as low as -12°C, part of the Hukou Waterfall on China’s Yellow River has frozen over, with spectacular results.

The deep freeze has seen nature transform the landmark into something you’d more likely see at an ice palace, with tourists flocking from across the country to catch a glimpse.

“Ice is everywhere. Icicles on the waterfall, everywhere! I did not know the Yellow River could be frozen, so it’s surprising. I came here specifically for the stunning view of the Yellow River.”

But it could become yet colder. Two years ago, the mercury in the far west of China dropped to a record -40°C. A repeat could mean that the whole of the waterfall will freeze over by the time spring arrives. Plenty of opportunity still then to see a real natural wonder!

Difficult words: winter wonderland (a beautiful place covered with ice and snow), deep freeze (when cold weather happens very quickly and strongly), landmark (a place which a lot of people know), flock (to come in large numbers), catch a glimpse (to have a look), icicle (a hanging piece of ice), stunning (extremely beautiful), mercury (a heavy liquid metal that sits in a thermometer).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795174897 Philippine boxing legend to run for president ( nhóm5 ) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795177753 Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao, 42, has said he will run for president in the 2022 elections. Mr Pacquiao has served as a senator of the Philippines since 2016. He said he wants to run for president because the Filipino people need a new government. He believes his career in boxing has helped him in politics and would give him the skills he needs to be a good president. He said in a speech: "I'm a fighter, and I will always be a fighter inside and outside the ring." He added: "We need government to serve our people." Other sporting heroes have become leaders of their country, like Pakistan's cricketing hero Imran Khan and Liberia's soccer icon George Weah.

Emmanuel Pacquiao is one of the greatest professional boxers of all time. He is the only boxer in history to be world champion at eight different levels and won twelve major world titles. He is the only boxer to hold world championships across four decades, from the 1990s to the 2020s. In 2019, he became the oldest welterweight world champion ever at the age of 40. Pacquiao has had other successes outside of his boxing and political careers. He was the head coach and a player for a Philippine Basketball Association team. He has also starred in movies, presented TV shows, and as a singer, has released best-selling albums and songs. He is also a preacher, philanthropist and YouTube personality.]]> 2021-10-06 03:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795177753 Eurovision Song Contest (Nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795179128 The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition which the European Broadcasting Union holds every year. It is broadcast on live television and participants are mostly from European countries.

The show started in 1956 and seven countries competed. The main idea was not to compete but to test television technology. Since that time, 52 countries took part and singers sang more than 1,600 songs.

The most successful country is Ireland which won seven times. The second most successful country is Sweden which won six times. In 1974, Sweden won with ABBA´s song ‘Waterloo’ which became the most successful Eurovision song.

]]> 2021-10-06 03:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795179128 G1: Chocolate Fashion Show https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795187919 Salon du Chocolat created chocolate clothing, and models then wore the clothing at a fashion show in Paris. The fashion show is part of a chocolate fair which takes place every year.

People say that it is the largest chocolate fair in the world. Chocolatiers, pastry chefs and confectioners come from all over the world to the fair.

In the movie ‘Forrest Gump’, Forrest Gump said that, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get’. Fashion shows seem to be like boxes of chocolates, too!

Difficult words: chocolatier (a person who works with chocolate), pastry (bakery like croissants, pies, cakes, etc.), confectioner (a person who works with candy), Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get (this means that you cannot tell what your life will be like in the future).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795187919 G1: Cambodia´s Bamboo Trains https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795192163 Cambodia plans to restore its train lines, which could mean the end of the famous bamboo trains. The homemade trains, known as ‘norries’, are powered by small motorcycle engines. They can carry as many as 15 people.

There are 40 norry drivers who have been working at the tracks for 20 years. With the tracks gone, they do not know how they will eat or care for their families. They are appealing to the government to find another place to run the norries. The government says that it may relocate the railway to a nearby district.

Difficult words: restore (bring back), appeal (ask), district (area).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795192163 Cold-Water Chess (Nhóm 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795195346 Russian swimmers tested their stamina by playing chess in a freezing lake. Standing in ice-cold water surrounded by ice, one of the swimmers explained that the activity does have its benefits.

He said that playing in cold water helps you concentrate and lets you stay in the water for longer. When you get in, you face a certain fear barrier, but once you get past that, you just test your tolerance and stamina.

The swimmers said that they got the idea for cold-water chess after reading about winter swimmers who played the game in Soviet times.

Difficult words: stamina (the strength, the power to go through something difficult), tolerance (willingness to do something), Soviet (when Russia was a Communist country).]]> 2021-10-06 03:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795195346 Child Syrian Artist – level 2 nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795202250 A Syrian child held an exhibition for his art. His name is Rayan, and it is possible that he is Syria’s youngest artist at five years old. He learned painting three years ago when he was two.

His grandfather taught him the hobby. His grandfather said that his grandson uses some techniques of painting correctly, but he is still learning how to do everything.

His grandfather added that his grandson knows how to paint shadows by using two colors.  One color shows a light side and the other color shows a dark side. This means that he understands shadows and lights in his own way.

Difficult words: hold (to organize and have an event happen), technique (the method and skill that you do something), in his own way (in a way which is specific for one person).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795202250 Men Fly Into a Plane (nhóm 8) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795203885 Two professional French wingsuit flyers, Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet, jumped from the summit of Jungfrau in Switzerland and attempted to board a plane in mid-air.

The incredible feat marked the 20th anniversary of a similar stunt by daredevil Patrick de Gayardon.

Around 100 practice flights in the Alps preceded the stunt. To everyone’s relief, the stunt, which the pair described as ‘the most intense project of their career’ was successful.

On video, it looked like a scene from a Hollywood film rather than something real.

Difficult words: attempt (try), incredible (amazing), feat (a dangerous achievement), anniversary (the date when something happened in a previous year), stunt (a dangerous achievement), daredevil (a person who likes doing dangerous things).


]]> 2021-10-06 03:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795203885 (nhóm 6) Holi Festival https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795204614 People in India celebrated the ancient Holi festival this week. Holi is a popular festival when people celebrate spring, love, and friendship.

Holi lasts one night and day and it takes place in March. The date changes every year because it takes place on the full moon. Millions of people throw colored powder at each other and they celebrate in the streets. In the evening, they dress up and visit relatives and friends, and they give each other sweets.

This year´s festival was different. The government asked people to stay at home because the number of COVID-19 cases started to grow again. In the past week, there were more than 60,000 new cases every day. Almost 162,000 people died from COVID-19 since spring last year.

Difficult words: ancient (something very old or something that existed long time ago), friendship (when two people are friends), dress up (to dress in smart or formal clothes).

]]> 2021-10-06 03:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795204614 Hero mother ( nhóm 3 ) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795206856 A woman in California has been hailed a hero after fighting off a mountain lion that was carrying away her five-year-old son. Her maternal instincts kicked in as she dragged her little boy from the jaws of the big cat. She fought off the wild animal with her bare fists in the garden of her house on Thursday morning. Her son had been playing in the garden when the lion pounced. The boy suffered bites and lacerations to his head and torso, but is now in a stable condition in a local hospital. He is expected to make a full recovery. Patrick Foy, a spokesperson from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said: "The true hero of this story is his mom because she absolutely saved her son's life."

Officials reported that the mountain lion was a juvenile and was less than a year old. They said the attack probably happened because the creature was young and was practising its hunting skills. They shot a lion near the boy's home that was acting in an "aggressive" nature. The officials later stated: "Wildlife forensics scientists analyzed samples from underneath the claws of the suspect lion carcass and isolated traces of human tissue and blood with a DNA profile that matched the young victim." They added: "Results were conclusive that it was the attacking lion that was shot by the wildlife officer on scene." Another mountain lion was found at the scene. It was shot with a non-lethal tranquilizer and released.]]> 2021-10-06 03:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1795206856 Scientists develop COVID-19 vaccine (nhóm 2) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812593597 In a year that has largely been full of bad and tragic news because of COVID-19, there is finally some good news. Scientists have announced a breakthrough in the fight against the virus. The scientists are from the U.S. drug company Pfizer and the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech. Their researchers say they have developed a vaccine that has a 90 per cent success rate in protecting against COVID-19. The researchers also say the vaccine does not cause serious side effects. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the USA's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the vaccine was positive news. He said: "The results are really quite good, I mean extraordinary."
Health experts say it will be months before the vaccine is widely available for people to take. It needs to be stored at temperatures of -80º Celsius. However, Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla was upbeat about his company's achievement. He said: "Today is a great day for science and humanity....We are reaching this critical milestone in our vaccine development program at a time when the world needs it most." He added: "Infection rates are setting new records, hospitals are nearing over-capacity and economies are struggling to reopen. With today's news, we are a significant step closer to providing people around the world with a much-needed breakthrough to help bring an end to this global health crisis."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812593597 We may be able to learn vocabulary while sleeping (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812593715 A study shows we could learn vocabulary while we are asleep. This is great news for students trying to learn a new language or increase their knowledge of words. Researchers in Switzerland showed that it is possible to learn new information while sleeping deeply, and then recall this information when we need it later. The researchers did tests on whether or not a person can remember new words and their translations while they were asleep. The researchers said our sleeping brain is much more aware of the outside world than we thought.
A researcher said, "language areas of the brain and the...brain's essential memory hub were activated" after a person woke up. These areas of the brain remember vocabulary during deep sleep. During deep sleep, our brain is active for about half a second. It then enters a period of inactivity. The active state is called "up-state" and the inactive state is called "down-state." The "up-state" period is when our brain could learn new vocabulary. The researchers say more research is needed to be 100 per cent sure that we can learn vocabulary while asleep.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812593715 University students take 'impossible' exam (Nhóm 4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812593748 Final-year students at a university in England are angry after they took an economics exam. Students from the University of Sheffield have signed a petition to say the exam questions were 'impossible' to answer. Nearly all of the 100 students who took the exam complained and signed the online petition. They want the university to look into this. The students say the exam contained questions on topics that were not in their course. They also say the questions included a lot of difficult maths that they had not been taught. One student said a lecturer told them they would only need 'simple' maths. They are now worried that they will get low test scores, and that this will affect what kind of degree they get.
The head of the economics department, professor Andy Dickerson, told the BBC that the exam was fair. He said not all the questions needed maths. He said the level of maths in the exams was the same as the level taught to students on the course. Professor Dickerson also said all the exam questions were on topics the students had studied. He said: "All questions were based on topics taught in the course and for which further reading was provided." He added that one question in the exam used a term that students may not have seen before. He said this was no problem because the question explained the meaning of the term. The university said it would look carefully at the results.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812593748 Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812595772 After global financial problems, Satoshi Nakamoto thought of an idea to make online transactions without banks. In 2008, he created Bitcoin, the world´s first digital currency.

Sadly, Satoshi Nakamoto is not the real name of Bitcoin´s founder, and nobody knows who the person really is.

Artists Reka Gergely and Tamas Gily made a statue of the Bitcoin founder. They unveiled it in a business park near the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary. The statue is a person without a face and with a hoodie which has the logo of Bitcoin.

The artists said that it was not easy to make the statue, as they did not know how the person really looked.

Difficult words: transaction (the situation when someone buys or sells something), currency (money), unveil (to show something publicly for the first time).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812595772 Healthcare workers and COVID-19 vaccine (N3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812596901 New York City authorities gaved an order last month that all healthcare workers had to receive at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot by September 27.

Last week, there were around 15% of healthcare workers who did not get the vaccine. Some workers refused because of health or religion. Then, New York hospitals fired or suspended these workers. As a result, it was necessary to stop surgeries or have less services.

Officials said that there were other areas in New York State where the situation was even worse. It was possible that the state would ask military healthcare workers for help if the situation got worse.

Difficult words: order (when someone says that somebody else must do something), refuse (to say no), suspend (to stop somebody’s work for some time).]]> 2021-10-13 02:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812596901 Soybean products may help you live longer (level 3-G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812597409 There are many reasons why Japanese people live longer than the rest of us. One reason might be soybean products like tofu, natto and miso. Scientists from the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Tokyo conducted a study into the health benefits of soybeans and their products. They found that people who regularly ate tofu, natto and miso were 10 per cent less likely to die from common killers than people who ate no soybean products. Researchers said eating soybean-based food lowered the risk of death from heart attacks, stroke and other cardiovascular problems. They said: "A higher intake of fermented soy products was associated with a lower risk of mortality."
Soybeans and fermented soybean products are superfoods. They are rich in protein, fibre and unsaturated fats. They are also a source of potassium and other minerals. Soy fibre can help to lower cholesterol and boost weight loss. Soy is an important part of the cuisine of East Asia, especially in Japan. People in Asia have eaten soy since ancient times. The most common types of soy products are tofu (soybean curd), natto (fermented soybeans), miso (a fermented soybean paste added to soups) and soy sauce. Some scientists say miso is high in salt. The researchers said salt in miso does not put people at risk of high blood pressure. Soybean products are becoming more popular around the world.

]]> 2021-10-13 02:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812597409 COVID-19 Vaccine - Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812598622 Forest experts in Chile´s Casablanca region are growing young Quillay trees, and they hope that their bark could help make a new COVID-19 vaccine.

Indigenous people use Quillay trees to make soap and medicine, and scientists also use the tree to make a vaccine against other diseases. Scientists make a special substance from the bark which helps immunity, and it could be important to a new COVID-19 vaccine. Experts believe that the vaccine will be appropriate for poorer countries.

It is clear that the demand for a new vaccine will grow, and there will not be enough older Quillay trees. Farmers will have to set up larger farms or think of other ways to make the substance which they need for the vaccine.

Difficult words: bark (the hard outer part of trees), substance (a part which you get from other things), immunity (the ability of the body to fight diseases).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812598622 N9 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812599701 Currently, 5G technology is starting, but some scientists are already thinking about 6G, and what technology it could bring.

Researchers in the UK want to use 6G technology for virtual teleportation and to transmit all the human senses. It is possible now to transmit seeing and hearing, and researchers believe that with very fast 6G technology, they could transmit touch, taste, and smell, too. For virtual teleportation, many things must happen at exactly the same time. It is not possible with 5G because it is not fast enough.

Researchers say that 6G will bring many new possibilities. They believe that it will be possible to meet your doctor without visiting him in his office.

Difficult words: teleportation (when subjects or energy are at one place, and then they appear somewhere else), transmit (to send something from one place to another), possibility (something that can happen).]]> 2021-10-13 02:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812599701 Amazon creates 'AmaZen' booths for stressed workers Nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812600656 Amazon wants to help its workers with stress and mental health problems. The company plans to put special booths in its warehouses to help workers relax. They are called "wellness chambers". The booths are part of a new scheme called "WorkingWell". Workers can sit inside a booth and watch videos about relaxation. Amazon has said the chambers are part of a system called "AmaZen". Zen is a practice whereby people meditate and focus on being calm. The company said: "During shifts, employees can visit AmaZen stations and watch short videos featuring easy-to-follow well-being activities, including guided meditations...and calming scenes with sounds."
Not all was calm and Zen-like on social media after Amazon shared a video of the AmaZen chamber on its Twitter account. Many social media users criticised the video and the idea of the wellness chamber. Most of the criticism was because of working conditions at Amazon's warehouses. Britain's Independent newspaper reported on an Amazon worker who said the chambers would not work. The worker described his experiences of working at Amazon. He said: "You don't get treated like a person. They work you like a robot… You don't have time to...get water. You don't have time to go to the bathroom." Amazon said: "The health and safety of employees is [our] number one priority and has been since day one."

]]> 2021-10-13 02:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812600656 Early humans may have hibernated in winter( nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812601346 Many animals hibernate for the winter. They stock up on food and hide away in a hole or cave to escape the snow and cold. Scientists now believe early human beings may have hibernated too. The scientists looked at the fossils of bones from our early ancestors who lived around 430,000 years ago. The bones were found in a site in the north of Spain. The scientists are experts in studying fossils and ancient bones. They say that the cuts and other signs of damage on the bones they examined are similar to those on bones of animals who hibernate, like bears. They also say that early humans may have hibernated to escape the extreme cold. Winters were much colder hundreds of thousands of years ago.
The scientists looked at the bones of several dozen humans. Scientist Antonis Bartsiokas said there is evidence that early humans slowed down their metabolism so they could survive longer in winter without food. However, humans could not slow their metabolism like a bear. Bears can wake up after months of hibernation and their body will be the same as when they went into hibernation. The bones of the early humans showed people suffered health problems because of hibernation. Many of the problems were caused by a lack of vitamin D, which we get from sunlight. This can make our bones weaker. The researchers said: "We have to emphasise that hibernations are not always healthy."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812601346 Children lack skill in holding pencils due to iPads (Nhóm 4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812602322 New technology is reducing children's ability to use a pencil. Researchers from the UK's health service said that children spend so much time swiping iPads or mobile phone screens that they cannot hold a pencil properly. This means their hands do not have the muscle strength to be able to write properly. Researcher Dr Sally Payne said: "Children are not coming into school with the hand strength...they had 10 years ago. Children coming into school are being given a pencil but are increasingly not able to hold it because they don't have the...skills."
Technology is changing the way that children write, draw or make things. Children are now using technology to create. Dr Payne explained that: "It's easier to give a child an iPad than encourage them to do muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting and sticking, or pulling toys and ropes [so] they're not developing the...skills they need to grip and hold a pencil." Some experts say technology is causing bigger problems. One expert said if a child isn't strong enough to hold a pencil, perhaps their whole body is weak. She said children needed to climb trees instead.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812602322 Supermarkets go green (nhóm 2) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812602639 Supermarkets are trying to be more environmentally friendly, but it is not an easy task. Customers do not want to pay more money, and investors do not want lower profit.

Tesco is Britain´s biggest supermarket, and the company has a plan to be carbon neutral by 2035. It is very difficult, as only a few customers care about the environment, and they will pay more money for environmentally-friendly products. Most people care only about the price and not about the environment. Investors believe that it is important to go green, but they do not want to lose money.

Tesco believes that it is possible to reach its goal. The company uses less plastic, uses farming which needs less water, and sells unwashed potatoes which last longer on shelves.

Difficult words: investor (a person or organization which puts money into a business to make money later), profit (money from a business activity), carbon neutral (an activity which does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812602639 Mind-control Mercedes cars - Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812602875 Cars are becoming more advanced. In the past decade, we have seen better electric car technology, and driverless cars. The latest advance is a car that lets you use your mind to control certain things. The car giant Mercedes revealed its futuristic car at a mobility show in Munich this week. It is called Vision AVTR. The four letters at the end of its name are to make people think of the movie Avatar. A Mercedes spokesperson said the car would not be available for purchase in the near future. Vision AVTR is currently just a concept car.

Mercedes is using brain-computer interface (BCI) in the Vision AVTR. The car's computers "read" the driver's brain. The system needs a minute to get to read a new driver. The driver will then be able to do things in the car using just their thoughts. A Mercedes spokeswoman spoke about how exciting she thought the futuristic car was. She said: "Mercedes-Benz is setting another milestone in the merging of man and machine." The Mercedes website says: "As soon as you get in, the car becomes an extension of your own body and a tool to discover the environment."]]> 2021-10-13 02:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812602875 Best to learn the new langugae before age of 10 (level 3-G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812603339 A study suggests that it is best to start learning a language before the age of ten. Researchers said the ability to learn grammar well is present up until the age of 18. This is the limit of the "critical period" when language-learning ability starts to decline. A researcher said children quite easily become bilingual because, "that's when you're best at learning languages". He said it's difficult to become truly bilingual later in life.
The research was based on 670,000 online grammar quizzes. The tests had grammar rules designed to confuse non-native speakers. These helped to measure the language ability of people who started learning a language at different ages. One researcher suggested older people might be too busy to learn a language because they leave home, go to university or start work. All of these affect language-learning ability.

]]> 2021-10-13 02:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812603339 Chocolate 3D Printing – level 3 nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812604461 A Belgian chocolate company is now using 3D printers which allow the company to create more intricate, difficult-to-mould chocolates. The chocolates are intended for people who seek original designs.

The chocolate is melted before being poured into a syringe which is attached to the printer and since the chocolates are hard to transport, the company hopes to open other shops around the world.

Difficult words: intricate (complicated or detailed), mould (a hollow container used to give shape to molten material as it cools and hardens), syringe (a tube).

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]]> 2021-10-13 02:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812604461 No loss of marks for spelling mistakes at UK university (nhóm 2) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812604710 A university in England has said students will not lose marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes. Hull University said that requiring English with no mistakes is "elitist". It said such a requirement could be seen as "homogenous, North European, white, male, and elite". Officials at the university said insisting on a high proficiency in written English discriminated against ethnic minorities and students who went to schools where average grades were low. The university said it wants to make writing and tests "more inclusive". It wants teachers to be more flexible when they mark and grade students' writing. It hopes to reduce the number of poorer students who drop out from university.
The university said many students suffer at school and in life because their written English contains mistakes. This includes students with dyslexia. This is a learning disorder that affects language. People with dyslexia have difficulty in relating to letters and words. This means it is harder for dyslexics to produce writing free of mistakes. Dyslexia affects areas of the brain that process language. The university also said that requiring well-written English could discourage students for whom English is a second language from going to university. Teachers at another university have been told it is fairer to judge students on their ideas and knowledge of a subject and not their spelling and grammar.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812604710 People do not sleep enough (N3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812606369 Especially in big cities, people sleep less and less, and it has a big impact on their physical and mental health.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused people to sleep less and the quality of their sleep was worse. The reason was stress. Many people could not do the things which they normally did, so they got up and went to sleep at different times. This was not good because they needed routines in their lives.

When people do not sleep enough, they are at higher risk of some diseases such as heart disease or obesity. Less sleep also affects their mood and thinking. Another problem is that many people think that they have to sleep less so they can work more.

Difficult words: stress (great worry which comes when someone is in a difficult situation), routine (when a person does usual things at usual times), obesity (when a person is very fat, and it is dangerous for his health).]]> 2021-10-13 02:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812606369 N4- Doctors separate babies https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812606398 One-year-old twin girls saw each other for the first time following a complex surgery to separate them at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel.

Conjoined at the head, the twins were separated in a 12-hour procedure, involving dozens of experts from Israel and abroad, who´d spent a year planning the surgery. The team used 3D and virtual reality models to plan the procedure that was the first of its kind in Israel. Months before the surgery, doctors inserted inflatable silicone bags into the girls’ heads and periodically expanded them to stretch the skin. The new skin was then used to closed the girls´ heads after the skulls were reconstructed.

Such an operation had only been conducted twenty times worldwide, and to the team´s great joy, everything went as they´d hoped. The girls are expected to lead completely normal lives.

Difficult words: complex (complicated or made up of many parts), conjoined (joined together), inflatable (designed to be filled with air or gas before or during use).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812606398 G1: Head teacher has to clean school toilets. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812606771 Times are hard for schools in England because they have so little money to spend. They have to cut back on many things. There is austerity in the UK so the government has cut school budgets. One head teacher at a school in London does not have enough money to pay for cleaners or canteen staff. This means she has to help to clean the toilets and serve students in the school cafeteria. Ms Siobhan Lowe is head of Tolworth Girls' School in south London. She recently told reporters that she was embarrassed because her school did not have enough money to support students. Ms Lowe said she has sold school land, cut subjects and fired her deputy-head teacher to keep her school open. 
The south London school is typical of many schools in the UK. Thousands of head teachers have to make difficult decisions about how to spend their school's money. More than 7,000 head teachers recently wrote to 3.5 million parents to explain why the schools have no money. Many parents have become volunteers at schools to help the children. Some schools have asked parents to provide toilet paper and other basics for the school toilets and classrooms. One school only has enough money to give students one sheet of A4 paper a month. Head teachers want to meet the UK's education secretary, but he refused to meet them. The UK's Department for Education said funding for education was a government priority. 
]]> 2021-10-13 02:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812606771 Canada doctor using art treaet patients (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812607705 A museum in Montreal, Canada is working with a group of doctors to help sick people. The doctors will prescribe visits to art galleries, instead of medicine. The museum is taking part in trials on patients to find out how art affects health. The patients include people with breast cancer, eating disorders, epilepsy and mental health problems. The museum's director of education and wellness believes that art heals. He said: "We saw that the museum was good for people....If you're suffering from breast cancer, you could come to the museum and you might feel better."
A doctor with experience in helping to heal people with art therapy spoke about its benefits. She said: "There's more and more scientific proof that art therapy is good for your physical health." She said looking at art increases hormones in our bodies that are responsible for our well-being. She said these same hormones are released when we exercise. The museum's director-general said physical activity and art gave similar health benefits. She said: "I am convinced that in the 21st century, [art] will be what physical activity was for health in the 20th century."

]]> 2021-10-13 02:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812607705 Dogs help stop the coronavirus – level 3 nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812607918 A study showed that dogs are able to detect COVID-19 in human sweat with stunning accuracy, paving the way for the broader use of sniffing dogs in a global effort to contain the pandemic.

The dogs’ detection reached 97% sensitivity in the French study, which rates the dogs´ ability to identify positive samples. In the case of identifying negative samples, the rate was 91%. The sensitivity rating is more successful than that of many 15-minute antigen tests which tend to be better at ruling out infection than finding it.

The results mean that virus-sniffing dogs could be more widely deployed in airports, train stations, or wherever crowds gather as a way to screen people, much like dogs are used for detecting drugs or bombs. Using dogs also means that COVID-19 could be identified at just a fraction of a second in a non-invasive manner and at a low cost.

Difficult words: contain (to control), rule out (to exclude something as a possibility), antigen (a reaction your body makes to fight off a sickness), non-invasive (not cutting the skin or entering any of the body spaces).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812607918 Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812609160 One-year-old twin girls saw each other for the first time following a complex surgery to separate them at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel.

Conjoined at the head, the twins were separated in a 12-hour procedure, involving dozens of experts from Israel and abroad, who´d spent a year planning the surgery. The team used 3D and virtual reality models to plan the procedure that was the first of its kind in Israel. Months before the surgery, doctors inserted inflatable silicone bags into the girls’ heads and periodically expanded them to stretch the skin. The new skin was then used to closed the girls´ heads after the skulls were reconstructed.

Such an operation had only been conducted twenty times worldwide, and to the team´s great joy, everything went as they´d hoped. The girls are expected to lead completely normal lives.

Difficult words: complex (complicated or made up of many parts), conjoined (joined together), inflatable (designed to be filled with air or gas before or during use).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812609160 We may be able to learn vocabulary while sleeping(N4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812609402 A new study shows that we could learn vocabulary while we are sleeping. This is great news for students struggling to learn a new language. It is also good for anyone who is trying to expand their knowledge of words. Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland have shown that it is possible to learn new information while we are sleeping deeply, and then recall this information when we need it after we wake up. This new information includes foreign language vocabulary. The researchers conducted tests on whether or not a person can remember new words and their translations while they were asleep. They said our sleeping brain is much more aware of the outside world than we thought.
Researcher Marc Züst said, "language areas of the brain and the hippocampus - the brain's essential memory hub - were activated" after a person woke up. He said these areas of the brain allow us to remember vocabulary during deep sleep. The researchers said that during deep sleep, our brain cells are active for a short period of time - about half a second. The cells then enter into a period of inactivity - again, about half a second. The active state is called "up-state" and the inactive state is called "down-state." The "up-state" period is the time when our brain could learn new vocabulary. The researchers say more research is needed to be 100 per cent sure that we can learn vocabulary while asleep.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812609402 The world needs 69 million more teachers (Nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812609824 A report from the United Nations (UN) says the world needs another 69 million teachers by the year 2030. The UN agency UNESCO made a promise in 2015 that every child in the world is to receive a primary and secondary education within the next 14 years. The agency says a lot of work needs to be done to find the number of teachers for schools. The biggest numbers of teachers needed are in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. UNESCO says there needs to be a huge effort to get the 69 million teachers. At the moment, UNESCO says there are "massive shortages" of teachers around the world. There are currently 263 million children who do not go to school. Around 25 million of these might never get an education.
The UN report warns that there are shortages of teachers in countries with rising populations. This makes it harder to find enough teachers as there are more and more children being born. The report says: "Without urgent and sustained action, the situation will deteriorate in the face of rising demand for education." UNESCO is also worried about the quality of teachers in some countries. In countries like Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, fewer than 60 per cent of teachers in primary school have been trained. There are also worries about class sizes. The UN says: "In countries like Malawi, it is common to find over 100 children in classes….This has been a persistent problem for many years."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812609824 Sitting maybe dangerous for your health (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812609877 If you spend a long time sitting or relaxing on a couch, you may be taking up to two years off your life. A lazy lifestyle increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity. It can also result in an early death. Many people think they can reduce this risk by exercising. Unfortunately, this might not be true. A new study says exercising (even 60 minutes a day) does not reverse the effect on the length of our life from sitting for a long time.
A team from Toronto University looked at 47 studies on people who kept notes on how long they sat and how much they exercised. The least active people had a 24% greater chance of dying than the active ones. Exercise did not change this. The team advised people to sit down less every day. We should also stand up at our desk, take frequent breaks to stretch, or watch TV standing. This may be better than a gym. It may be "just what the doctor ordered".
 
 
 
 

]]> 2021-10-13 02:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812609877 COVID Vaccine ( Nhóm 8) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812611321 If a vaccine for COVID-19 arrives, governments will need many aircraft. Distributing the vaccine will be a huge logistical operation. Experts say transporting 7.8 billion doses of a vaccine - one dose for everyone on Earth - will need 8,000 747 cargo planes. Governments must start planning for the "mission of the century". Even if half the vaccines can be transported by land, the air cargo industry will still face its largest single transport challenge ever.

The experts said many obstacles must be overcome. One key element is to create temperature-controlled cargo hubs to keep the vaccine at the same temperature. Staff must quickly become experts at safely handling the vaccine. Another challenge would be security and cross-border controls. The experts said: "Vaccines will be highly valuable commodities. Arrangements must be in place to ensure that shipments remain secure from tampering and theft."]]> 2021-10-13 02:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812611321 Water seller becomes China's richest man (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812611624 A businessman is now the richest man in China. The magazine Bloomberg's Billionaires Index named Mr Zhong Shanshan as China's richest man. The magazine said Mr Zhong is worth over $58 billion. He is $2 billion richer than the previous number one, Jack Ma. Mr Ma is the boss of the Internet giant Alibaba. Mr Zhong made his money from his Nongfu Spring bottled water company. He also makes vaccines. He is the chairman of a vaccine manufacturer. Mr Zhong is now 17th on the global rich list. It seems that he will move up that list in the future.
Zhong Shanshan, 66, was once a construction worker. He started his water company in 1996, just as China's market for bottled water was emerging. Bottled water is now a big industry in China. Most people who live in China prefer bottled water to tap water for health reasons. Zhong's vaccine company is helping in the fight against COVID-19. It is developing a spray vaccine with the help of researchers from a top university. Chinese media call Mr Zhong a "lone wolf" because he is rarely seen in public. He rarely gives interviews and he likes to keep himself to himself.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812611624 Researchers want to 'correct' Japanese English (NHóm 4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812612870 There are many types of English around the world. Some well-known varieties in Asia include Chinglish in China, Singlish in Singapore and Japanese English. A group of language experts in Japan is troubled by how the government uses English. In particular, it says the government uses computer or online translation too much. Researchers say many translations create strange and confusing words and expressions. Many of these are confusing to English speakers. The researchers worry this could have a negative impact on Japan's tourist industry. They even say the increasing amount of unsuitable words is becoming a "national embarrassment" in Japan.
The research team says computer software gives odd or incorrect translations for individual kanji - the Chinese characters used in Japanese writing. There are many examples of this, including "Hello Work" - the name for job centres, and "Go To Travel" a plan to help tourism in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team says software creates, "unintentionally funny translations that could easily be corrected if they were just checked by an English speaker". Businesses also create this English. The Christmas message being used by the Seibu Sogo department store has raised eyebrows. It says "Stay Positive." Many people believe this is the wrong thing to say during coronavirus and "Stay Happy" would be better.


]]> 2021-10-13 02:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812612870 (Nhóm 4)Red light could help improve vision in old age https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812613174 Scientists believe they have found help for older people suffering from poor eyesight. The solution is shining a special red light in the eyes for three minutes. Doctors say a three-minute daily dose of the special red light for two weeks could help improve age-related vision problems. However, they say not any red light will help improve eyesight. The co-author of a study into the effects of red light and vision in older people explained why. Professor Glen Jeffery said: "I strongly suggest that people do not just go and buy a red light off the web. They have to produce the right wavelength and be reliable. We are looking for a commercial partner to do this and to price them at under around $20 to $25."
The study was carried out by a team from University College London. Researchers conducted tests on 24 men and women aged between 28 and 72. They said some cells that help us process light had deteriorated in the older people. Doctors say their red light improved the ability of these people to detect different colours, particularly blue. The vision of these older people improved by as much as 22 per cent. Doctor Jeffrey said: "Populations are ageing rapidly and this is going to be a major issue in the future. We need to gear up for this." He added: "If you can't see clearly you can't read or watch TV. You also tend to fall down and break bones. Our lights are a step in this direction."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812613174 Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812613358 Protesters gathered in Texas after the most extreme abortion law in the US began.

Texas started the strictest anti-abortion law in the country, banning all abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, which is before most women know they´re pregnant. The most extreme part of the law gives private citizens the power to sue abortion providers and anyone who helps or abets an abortion after six weeks. Citizens who win such lawsuits would get at least 10,000 dollars.

There is concern that the law will incentivize bad behavior and encourage abortion ´bounty hunters´ or people that report women who are trying to access health care in Texas. There have been cases of people outside of clinics recording license plates and taking pictures of people going into clinics.

Despite legal efforts to stop the law, the US Supreme Court failed to act on an emergency request by abortion rights groups. The Biden government said that it would fight to protect the right to abortion.

Difficult words: abet (to encourage or assist someone to do something which people may think is wrong), incentivize (to motivate someone to do something, especially by offering rewards), bounty (money or another reward).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812613358 Coffee Shop Car – level 2 nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812613567 A 33-year-old man from Jordan works as a driver and a few years ago, he saw an unusual car in the street. The car sold coffee and Ahmed liked the idea very much.

In 2019, Ahmed bought a Volkswagen Beetle and he changed it into a coffee shop. At first, his idea was to earn extra money during Ramadan. Then when the coronavirus pandemic started, Ahmed needed to make more money. He decided to sell coffee and other drinks every day.

Some people buy Ahmed´s coffee daily, and they love the taste of it. Sometimes, when Ahmed is late people are already waiting for him. His green car attracts drivers who want to try his coffee and to see how he makes it.

Difficult words: earn (to get money for work), Ramadan (the ninth month of the Muslim year when people do not eat during the day), attract (to make somebody interested in something).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812613567 Online learning and lessons to continue in 2021(G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812614164 The year 2020 has been difficult for hundreds of thousands of teachers. They have had to deliver lessons using online platforms. Millions of students have had lessons on websites like Zoom. This has caused a major transformation in education. The quality of education differs according to Internet speeds, the levels of teacher preparedness and teachers' competence in using technology. Many students had no lessons because they had no computer.
Malaysia has started a new programme to help underprivileged children. Eligible students will get a device so they can have online lessons. Malaysia wants to help students and schools in need and find the best methods to expand the programme. There are plans to improve educational TV shows for students with no Internet access. Malaysia will also employ sign language interpreters to help the hard of hearing. It wants to focus on students' needs.

]]> 2021-10-13 02:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812614164 An app can detect COVID-19 (Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812614697 Scientists found out that people who had COVID-19 had pink eye syndrome. It means that the color of the white part or their eyes turns pink.

Scientists know two million different colors of pink, and they can tell which color is usual for COVID-19 patients.

Scientists in a German company Semic RF made a special app which can detect COVID-19. It is very easy to use the app. You install it in your phone and then, you take a photo of one of your eyes. The app uses Artificial Intelligence which can tell in less than five minutes if you are sick or not.

The app also checks your blood pressure, pulse, body temperature, and possible eye infection to detect COVID-19 successfully.

Difficult words: detect (to find something what you could not see before), Artificial Intelligence (a special software in computers), blood pressure (the force with which your heart pushes the blood through your body), pulse (when your heart beats and you can feel it when you touch your wrist or side of the neck).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812614697 Smoking can damage the eyes (N4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812614885 Scientists are warning that people who smoke are in danger of damaging their eyes. The scientists say smokers are two times more likely to lose their vision than non-smokers. Everyone knows that smoking can damage the lungs and heart, but not many people know it could damage the eyesight. The scientists are from the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the United Kingdom. The AOP has started a campaign to raise awareness of the danger of smoking to the eyes. The campaign is called "Stub it out". The word "stub" means put out a cigarette by pushing the end against something hard; "stub it out" is saying, "stop smoking". The AOP said only one in five people thinks smoking can damage the eyes.
The AOP explained why smoking is so harmful to the eyes. Cigarette smoke gets in the eyes and causes or worsens a number of different eye problems. Cigarette smoke contains toxic chemicals that can irritate and damage the eyes. Smoke contains tiny pieces of metals like lead and copper. These can get into the eyes and lead to cataracts - a condition that causes the eye lens to become cloudy. People with cataracts usually need an operation to restore their sight. Smoke can also increase the chance of worsening sight problems for people with diabetes. The AOP said smokers are also three times more likely to damage the eyes' muscles. The AOP has encouraged smokers to quit.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812614885 G1: More U.K. schools to teach Latin, a dead language https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812615477 The UK has announced a $5.5 million programme to teach Latin at 40 of its schools. The Latin Excellence Programme aims to "level up" opportunities for students in some government-run schools. Latin was spoken in the area around Rome 2,000 years ago. It is taught in 49% of the UK's "elite" private schools but only 2.7% of state schools. The UK's education secretary said: "Latin has a reputation as an elitist subject, which is reserved for the privileged few, but the subject can bring so many benefits to young people." He added: "Latin can help pupils with learning modern foreign languages."
The programme has sparked a heated debate. Many people have ridiculed it as being a "poorly-funded gimmick". A politician wrote: "Latin is elite because only people who are guaranteed successful careers, thanks to family connections, can afford to waste time on ...understanding...the dialogue in [ancient] books." An author said she only uses Latin to "occasionally translate things on tombs". A teacher said money would be better spent on living languages like Chinese that would enable children "to get ahead in the world," or on computer coding.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812615477 Algeria turns off Internet to stop exam cheats (Nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812616013 Algeria has turned off its Internet to stop students cheating in school exams. The government wants to stop students secretly going online during nationwide tests. The Internet stops for an hour after the start of each exam. The government will shut the Internet down during the exam season, from June 20 to June 25. In addition, all devices with Internet access have been banned from 2,000 exam centers. Even teachers cannot have their phones. There were many problems in 2016. Test questions were leaked online before and during exams.
Algeria's Education Minister told a newspaper that Facebook would also be blocked for the six days of the exams. She does not like doing this but needs to do something to stop students cheating. For more security, metal detectors will be put in all exam halls. Also, security cameras and mobile-phone blockers are now at the companies where the exams are printed. Many students think the government is doing the right thing. Rania Salim, 16, said it was unfair that students who didn't study could get help in exams by using their mobile phone to cheat.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812616013 No loss of marks for spelling mistakes at UK university nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812616794 A university in England has said students will not lose marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes. Hull University said that requiring English with no mistakes is "elitist". It said such a requirement could be seen as "homogenous, North European, white, male, and elite". Officials at the university said insisting on a high proficiency in written English discriminated against ethnic minorities and students who went to schools where average grades were low. The university said it wants to make writing and tests "more inclusive". It wants teachers to be more flexible when they mark and grade students' writing. It hopes to reduce the number of poorer students who drop out from university.
The university said many students suffer at school and in life because their written English contains mistakes. This includes students with dyslexia. This is a learning disorder that affects language. People with dyslexia have difficulty in relating to letters and words. This means it is harder for dyslexics to produce writing free of mistakes. Dyslexia affects areas of the brain that process language. The university also said that requiring well-written English could discourage students for whom English is a second language from going to university. Teachers at another university have been told it is fairer to judge students on their ideas and knowledge of a subject and not their spelling and grammar.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812616794 Smoking can damage the eyes (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812617503 Scientists are warning that smokers are in danger of damaging their eyes. Smokers are two times more likely to lose their vision than non-smokers. Smoking damages the lungs and heart. Not many people know it also damages the eyes. The Association of Optometrists (AOP) started a campaign to tell people about the danger of smoking to the eyes. The campaign is called "Stub it out". The word "stub" means put out a cigarette by pushing the end against something; "stub it out" is saying, "stop smoking". The AOP said only one in five people thinks smoking damages the eyes.
The AOP explained why smoking harms the eyes. Cigarette smoke gets in the eyes and causes different problems. The smoke contains poisons that can damage the eyes. It also contains small pieces of metal like lead. This can get into the eyes and lead to cataracts - a problem that causes the eyes to become cloudy. People with cataracts need an operation to restore their sight. Smoke can also worsen sight problems for people with diabetes. The AOP said smokers are also three times more likely to damage eye muscles. The AOP has said smokers should quit.

]]> 2021-10-13 02:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812617503 G8: Spain´s ugliest tomato https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812618391 Farmers in Spain competed to win the ´ugliest tomato´ award. The competition happens every year in northern Tudela. Farmers bring tomatoes which are usually the Marmande type, and people call this type the Ugly Tomato of Tudela.

One participant in the competition said that bees were the reason why some tomatoes were so ugly. Bees took the pollen from one place to another, but something went wrong, and then some tomatoes grew ugly.

Marisol and Vincente Martinez won this year´s award. They said that they did not plan to grow ugly tomatoes. It just happened by chance, and the couple decided to be in the competition. The first prize was an Iberian ham.

Difficult words: participant (a person who takes part in a competition or game), pollen (a yellow powder which is on flowers, and bees carry it to other flowers), Iberia (the peninsula where Spain and Portugal are located).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812618391 COVID-19 vaccine from a tree (Nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812618996 Forest experts in Chile´s Casablanca region are growing young Quillay trees, and they hope that their bark could help make a new COVID-19 vaccine.

Indigenous people use Quillay trees to make soap and medicine, and scientists also use the tree to make a vaccine against other diseases. Scientists make a special substance from the bark which helps immunity, and it could be important to a new COVID-19 vaccine. Experts believe that the vaccine will be appropriate for poorer countries.

It is clear that the demand for a new vaccine will grow, and there will not be enough older Quillay trees. Farmers will have to set up larger farms or think of other ways to make the substance which they need for the vaccine.

]]> 2021-10-13 02:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812618996 G1: Diet drinks may be as unhealthy as sugary ones https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812620229 People drink diet soda to diet. They think these drinks are healthier than fizzy drinks. A new study says "diet" versions of sugary drinks can be as bad for our heart as sugar-filled fizzy drinks. The researchers said people should avoid diet sodas and other artificially sweetened drinks if they want to stay healthy. They said artificial sweeteners in diet drinks are not healthy. A heart specialist said: "The belief that artificial sweeteners are a safe substitute for sugar is fake news." He added: "Artificial sweeteners have been associated with weight gain...and diabetes."
The research is published in an American cardiology journal. Researchers looked at data from 100,000 people. The people recorded their diet, activity level, and health status twice a year. The researchers said: "Higher intakes of...artificially sweetened beverages were associated with a higher risk of [heart] disease." They said artificially sweetened drinks were not so healthy. They added: "Water, water, and more water should be the [drink] of choice. Given childhood obesity, no sweetened or artificially sweetened beverage should be...in children's diets."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812620229 A zeptosecond - the shortest unit of time ever measured (NHÓM 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812621240 Today, many things are getting shorter. Scientists have just measured something very short. They recorded the shortest unit of time ever measured - a zeptosecond. This is a tiny, tiny fraction of one second - a trillionth of a billionth of a second. It is a decimal point followed by 20 zeros and then a 1. The scientists study atomic physics at the Goethe University. They used high-tech equipment to measure how long it takes a photon to cross a hydrogen molecule. The scientists said it took 247 zeptoseconds for this to happen. This is too fast for humans to sense or see.
In 1999, an Egyptian won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He found that one femtosecond equals 0.000000000000001 seconds, or a millionth of a billionth of one second. The zeptosecond measures things in terms of the speed of light. One millisecond is a thousandth of one second. This is the time it takes a neuron in our brain to fire. One nanosecond is one billionth of one second. The shortest unit of time it may be possible to measure is one Planck. This is a decimal point followed by 44 zeros and a 1.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812621240 DNA could decide whether you like coffee or tea nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812621976 New research says that DNA helps decide whether we prefer coffee or tea. Researchers from a university in Australia studied how our DNA affected our taste and why we like some things more than others. The researchers think they know why some of us prefer coffee while others like tea. People who like bitter tastes are more likely to drink coffee. People who are more sensitive to the bitter taste of caffeine are more likely to prefer coffee to tea. They were also more likely to drink more coffee than those who were not so sensitive to caffeine.
Researchers looked at data on more than 400,000 people. They also looked at a study that compared the tastes of 1,757 twins with their siblings. DNA is not the only thing affecting people's tastes. Other things like our environment, social factors or the effects of medicine can also affect our taste. One researcher said we can learn to like coffee. He said: "Bitter taste...is shaped not only by [DNA], but also environmental factors. Even though humans naturally dislike bitterness, we can learn to like or enjoy bitter-tasting food after being exposed to environmental factors."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812621976 Dirty Money – level 2 (Nhóm 4) thuytrangnguyenthi7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812622422 Andreas Flaten worked in a car repair shop in Georgia, US. He left the company in November 2020, but his boss did not pay him the last wages.

Flaten´s boss owed him 915 dollars and Flaten asked officials for help because he did not know what to do. His boss did not speak to him at all.

One day in March 2021, Flaten and his girlfriend saw a pile of coins in front of their house. There was an envelope with the paycheck and a rude message. There were about 90,000 coins and they were all dirty. It seemed that there was oil on them.

Now, Flaten works hard to clean the coins and then, he will be able to use the money. It takes him 90 minutes to clean several hundred coins.

Difficult words: owe (when a person must pay money to somebody because he borrowed it or because the other person did some work for him), coin (a flat, round piece of metal which people use as money), paycheck (the money which somebody gets for his work).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812622422 N9 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812622530 A panel of scientists from around the world said in a review that COVID-19 vaccines worked so well that most people don´t need a booster.

Scientists based their information on a wide range of real-world observational studies as well as data from clinical trials. All of this is likely to add to a debate over whether to use booster vaccines at all. Experts said that governments should focus on immunizing the unvaccinated and wait for more data on which boosters are most effective and at what levels.

The WHO said that wealthier countries offering booster shots increases the risk of variants appearing elsewhere. This is because if the rich countries take booster shots and introduce regular booster shots for the current viruses, then they will use up all the capacity of vaccine companies. There will be no or minimal vaccines available for the rest of the world. Therefore, it´s necessary to push national priorities to the side for global needs.

Difficult words: booster (a thing that increases the effectiveness of something), clinical trial (a research study performed in people to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of experimental medical treatments), immunize (to provide somebody with protection against a disease by putting a medicine into the body).]]> 2021-10-13 02:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812622530 Women should have babies before 35 (13th September, 2013) ( NHóm 4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812622781 A expert thinks women should have babies before they are 35 years old. Professor Mary Herbert said the age of 35 is like when the "clock strikes 12". She said it is riskier to become pregnant after 35. She added that it was difficult to help with as women got older. Professor Herbert gave doctors and nurses an important message in a speech at a science festival. She said: "The best cure of all is to have your babies before this clock strikes 12." She added: "I would be getting worried about my daughter if she hadn't had a child by 35."


 
 Many women choose to put off having a baby until they are older. One of the biggest reasons is they do not want to stop their career. Women are also marrying or settling down at a later age. Professor Herbert said society must think about how to help younger women have babies. She said: "We need to understand what the barriers are to women having their children early." A childcare expert, Belinda Phipps, agreed. She said you can't order babies. She added that women don't always find a partner and a house before they are 32. She said: "The right man doesn't always just come along."

]]> 2021-10-13 02:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812622781 School children go on strike for climate (Nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812622830 School children around the world have been going on strike. They are unhappy that their governments are doing too little to fight climate change. The strikes are part of a growing international movement called School Strike for Climate. Instead of going to school, students across the globe have been skipping classes to take part in street protests. Many of the protests have been outside government buildings. The movement began in August 2018 when Swedish student Greta Thunberg stood outside Sweden's government every Friday. She held a sign that read: "School strike for climate". Photos of her went viral on social media. Students organized themselves and copied Ms Thunberg's actions.
The movement is growing worldwide. In 2019, strikes have taken place across Europe, North America and Australia. Over 45,000 students protested on one day in Switzerland and Germany. Students have held banners reading, "Why learn without a future?" "If you do not act as adults, we will" and "Like the sea level, we rise." The first worldwide strike will take place on March 15. Many scientists, politicians and teachers congratulated the students for their activism. However, not everyone is on the students' side. Australia's leader called for "more learning in schools and less activism". A journalist in the U.K. wrote: "If children really must wag their fingers at older generations for some imaginary sin, I wish they'd do it at the weekend."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812622830 Biden administration invests in expanding COVID-19 testing and treatments (Nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812623635 2021-10-13 02:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812623635 G1: French health workers get $9 billion pay rise https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812623783 The French government has agreed to give a pay rise of $9 billion to its health workers. It agreed the deal on Monday with labour unions. The extra cash means that nurses and care workers will get an extra $208 a month in their pay packet. Doctors who work in the public sector will also get more money. France's Prime Minister said the pay rise was to recognise the efforts of health workers during the coronavirus pandemic. During the outbreak, millions of French people applauded and clapped their nurses and doctors. This caused the government to reward them with a rise in pay. The Prime Minister told reporters that: "No one can deny that this is a historic moment for our health system."
Monday's announcement and signing ceremony was on the day before Bastille Day on July the 14th. This is a day to honour a turning point in the French Revolution in 1789. It is the national day of France. Around 1,400 nurses, doctors and carers attended a ceremony in Paris' Place de la Concorde. However, some unions asked health workers to stay away from the celebration as a protest. The unions said the government needed to do more to protect staff and keep them safer during the pandemic. The Prime Minister said the government would do more. He said: "It is a way of catching up for years of delay, for which each and every one of us has their share of responsibility."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812623783 G1: Man swims to work every day to beat traffic. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812624404 A German man has started swimming to work after he got fed up with commuting. Benjamin David, 40, got tired of being stuck in traffic every day in the German city of Munich. He now beats the traffic by swimming 2km down the city's Isar River. He puts his laptop computer, mobile phone and his business suit in a waterproof bag that he drags behind him. Mr David got the idea by watching the river flow right past his apartment. He looked on a map and realized the river went past his office. He then decided to swim to work and get some exercise, instead of battling other commuters in buses and trains or breathing fumes from traffic while on a bicycle.
Mr David told reporters that his river commute has changed his life. He is much fitter and less stressed. He spoke about the stress his commute used to cause him. He said: "I'm not a monk. When I was on my bike, I would yell at cars. When I was on foot, I would yell at cyclists, and so on and so forth." He described how the river has changed things. He said: "Just a few metres to the side of [all the traffic] is the river, and if you just swim down that, it's completely relaxing and refreshing." David also spoke about the dangers of river swimming. He always checks the temperature before diving in. Not everyone can swim to work in the city. In Central London, it is illegal to swim in the River Thames.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812624404 Museum of Illusions (Nhóm 6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812624918 A new Museum of Illusions opened in Cairo, Egypt.

An illusion is when our senses trick our brain, and we see or feel something that is not really happening. In the museum, people see, for example, holograms or special pictures, and they visit a room called the Infinity Room. The manager of the museum said that people visit the place for more than fun. They could learn a lot of interesting things about their mind, vision, and science, too.

There are 15 similar museums around the world. The first museum opened in Croatia in 2015 and it quickly became very popular. It is a very successful idea and people of all ages love it.

Difficult words: sense (when people can see, smell, hear, taste, and touch), hologram (an image that is not real, but a special technology makes it look real), infinity (when something has no end).




]]> 2021-10-13 02:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812624918 University students take 'impossible' exam (nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626386 Students at an English university are angry about their economics exam. The students have signed an online petition saying the exam questions were 'impossible' to answer. Nearly all the 100 students complained and signed the petition. They want the university to help them. The students say the exam had questions on topics that were not in their course. They say there were questions with a lot of difficult maths that they had not been taught. One student said he was told he would only need 'simple' maths. The students are worried that they will get lower test scores and a poorer degree.
The head of the department, professor Andy Dickerson, said the exam was fair. He said the level of maths in the exams was the same as the level taught to the students. Professor Dickerson also said the questions were on topics the students had studied. He said: "All questions were based on topics taught in the course and for which further reading was provided." He said there was one question that used a new term, but this was no problem because the question explained the meaning of the term. The university says it will look carefully at the results.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626386 Young people buy clothes online (Nhóm 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626391 Depop is a shopping app which young people and influencersuse to buy and sell used clothes.

More than 30 million people from 150 countries use the app, and some experts believe that Depop will have a big impact on global companies which sell clothes.

One of the people who sells clothes on Depop is 20-year-old Moira Campos. She has about 40,000 followers and selling clothes online is her job. Moira and her brother buy used clothes, take photos of them, and then sell them. They make about 5,000 dollars a month by selling clothes online.

Young people like sustainable shopping because it is better for the planet. Yet some people argue that money could become more important than the environment.

Difficult words: influencer (a person who makes his followers on social media do, buy, or use the same things which he does), used (something that people use again or more than once), sustainable (something that people can use without harming the environment).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626391 Korean boy band BTS No.1 in US album chart (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626481 A South Korean pop act has reached number one in the U.S. album charts for the first time ever. The boy band BTS debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their new album, "Love Yourself: Tear". The seven-member K-pop band released their album on May 18. It sold 135,000 copies in the week ending May 24, including CDs and streamed music. The album is the second top-10 hit for K-pop. The first K-pop entry into the Billboard 200 albums chart was also an album by BTS. The group thanked their fans on social media by tweeting: "It's wonderful and very overwhelming. Thank you everyone who has listened to our music. We will keep doing our best."
BTS was formed by the Big Hit Entertainment company in 2013. The group quickly became a big success in Korea with their debut song "No More Dream". They won several New Artist of the Year awards. Their popularity soon spread overseas and they started to get many fans in Japan and the USA. They have a huge following on social media. In March 2016, they broke the world record for the most re-tweeted artist on Twitter. In December 2017, they were the most tweeted about celebrities on Earth, being liked or re-tweeted over half a billion times. BTS' new album is performed mostly in the Korean language. Even though there is very little English on the album, they have sold out concert tours in the USA.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626481 Cambridge University may end handwritten exams (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626643 Cambridge University may end handwritten exams after 800 years. Students may soon type their answers on a computer rather than use a pen. Exam markers are complaining that exams are becoming more difficult to read because of poor handwriting. Today's students mainly use laptops in lectures. They are losing the ability to write by hand because writing causes students physical difficulties. Their hand muscles are not used to writing for three hours at a time.
A Cambridge lecturer said handwriting is a "lost art". She said: "Twenty years ago, students routinely [wrote] by hand several hours a day, but now they write virtually nothing by hand, except exams." She said handwriting has been on "a downward trend" for years. The lecturer said some students' handwriting is so illegible that students had to return to the university to read out their answers to examiners who could not read the writing.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626643 Billionaire to pay off student debt for class of 2019 - Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626699 University students receiving their diplomas at a college in the USA got the surprise of their lives during their commencement ceremony. Students at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia were listening to a speech from the philanthropist Robert F. Smith, a recipient of an honorary degree from Morehouse. Mr Smith ended his speech by informing the 400 students that he would pay off their student loans and debt. He said: "This is my class, 2019, and my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans." He added: "On behalf of the eight generations of my family who have been in this country, we're going to put a little fuel in your bus." Mr Smith's kindness is estimated to be worth about $40 million.
Robert F. Smith, 56, graduated from Columbia Business School, where he earned an MBA with honors. In the year 2000, he founded the investment company Vista Equity Partners, which currently manages over $46 billion in assets. His company made him a multi-billionaire. Mr Smith was the first African-American to sign the Giving Pledge, where people promise to commit at least half of their wealth to philanthropic causes. One graduate to benefit from Smith's generosity said it would have an "immeasurable impact" on his life. Dwytt Lewis, 21, whose $150,000 loan is now no more, added: "Just imagine the weight lifted off your shoulders when you have a clean slate coming out of college."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812626699 (nhóm 8) Paper books better than e-books for bedtime stories https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812627498 The march of technology may seem unstoppable, but all things digital may have a way to go before they replace the traditional bedtime book - the paper one. A new study shows that paper books are better than e-books for bedtime reading. The study suggests that the good old printed book, with real pages that you turn with your fingers, makes parents and children interact more than they do when reading with an electronic book. Researchers from the University of Michigan studied how 37 pairs of parents and toddlers interacted with e-books and paper books. The researchers found that with electronic books, parents asked their children fewer questions and made fewer comments about the story.
The study involved observing parents and children (aged two or three) reading from three different book formats. These were printed books, basic e-books on a tablet, and enhanced e-books with features such as animation, graphics and sound effects. The researchers discovered that the parents and toddlers interacted with each other less with both types of e-books than they did with the printed books. A researcher said that when they did speak, they were far likelier to talk about the device and the technology rather than about the story. Children were likelier to say things like, "don't push that button" or "don't change the volume" than ask questions or make observations about the story.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812627498 (Nhóm 4) Starbucks opens coffee shop with tatami in Kyoto https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812628630 Starbucks has opened a new coffee shop in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto. It is unlike any other Starbucks in the world as it has three rooms with tatami – the traditional straw matting that is used for floors in Japanese houses. There are no chairs in the tatami rooms. People sit on flat cushions on the tatami mats. The new coffee shop is in a 100-year-old house in one of the most historic areas of Kyoto. It is located on the attractive Ninen-zaka shopping street. It is situated between two UNESCO World Heritage-listed temples. The area is very popular with tourists, many of whom rent traditional Japanese kimono to go sightseeing in. The three tatami rooms are on the second floor of the house.
Starbucks has done its best to make sure the coffee shop blends in with its traditional surroundings. There are no neon signs and no big, green Starbucks names or logos. Instead, there is a traditional dark-blue curtain hanging over the front door. The coffee shop's logo is printed on the curtain in black. Starbucks has reformed the house in the traditional style and has created a Japanese garden for people to look at. The company also wants to be a good neighbor. It has decided not to let people form lines in front of the shop as they wait to get in. It will also limit the number of customers during peak hours. This is to avoid disrupting the quiet atmosphere in the area with crowds of customers.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812628630 School tests may harm children - Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812630047 Making schoolchildren take tests is harming students’ interest in science, as well as having a negative impact on kids’ natural curiosity. This is the conclusion of a British university report into science teaching and testing in primary schools. Researchers from Durham University warned that too many schools were teaching science just so students could pass tests. There is a lot of pressure for students to get to better schools. The experts said there was very little real science teaching going on that encouraged students to find out things for themselves. Learning by doing, experimenting and seeing should be at the heart of all physics, chemistry and biology lessons. The Durham University team found the opposite; that there was little hands-on, practical work taking place in Britain’s schools.

 
 
Lead researcher Professor Peter Tymms said it was important to develop new approaches to primary school science. He compared today’s teaching with that of the past sixty years and found that testing was harming children’s natural desire to ask questions about science: “We suspect that the current national approach to science in primary schools is not impacting on children’s scientific thought and curiosity as much as is possible,” he said. Professor Tymms made it clear what schools and science teachers need to focus on, saying: “The purpose of science in primary schools should be to foster a sense of curiosity and positive attitudes in the young child. It should also guide the child in solving problems to do with the physical, natural and human worlds.”
]]> 2021-10-13 02:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812630047 Car maker Ferrari launches fashion brand nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812630170 Ferrari is one of the most famous names in the car industry. Its sports cars are a symbol of luxury. It has a long history of success in motor sports, especially in Formula One. The Italian company has now entered the business of fashion. On Sunday, the 74-year-old carmaker launched its own line of clothing at its factory in Maranello, northern Italy. The company briefly halted production of its cars to let models walk down a temporary catwalk on its factory floor. Ferrari hopes its new fashion line will allow the company to diversify. Chief Brand Diversification Officer Nicola Boari told reporters that Ferrari's clothing collections could make up 10 per cent of the company's profits within a decade.
Ferrari's new, ready-to-wear clothing was created by 37-year-old fashion designer Rocco Iannone. He used to work for the fashion house Armani. Mr Iannone's clothes all used very bright colours. He made great use of "Ferrari red," the yellow used in the Ferrari logo, and a very vibrant blue. Iannone hopes the clothes will be popular with younger people. He said: "The young generations have the power to express the energy and the power of Ferrari's brand." He added: "If you enter a Ferrari store, it's not because you need another raincoat. You are looking for something special." Ferrari's chairperson said the company "wants to champion Italian excellence and the best of our country's creativity".
]]> 2021-10-13 02:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812630170 Work over 80 hours a week to change the world - Nhóm 5 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812630476 https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1811/181129-working-week.html
One of the world's most successful business leaders, Elon Musk, has said that people need to work from around 80 to over 100 hours per week to "change the world". Mr Musk knows what he is talking about because he has his finger in many pies. He is the founder, CEO and lead designer of SpaceX; the co-founder and CEO of the car company Tesla; and the co-founder of PayPal. He works very hard on many projects that have changed and could change our lives. He said he is a workaholic but he loves what he does. He talked about working hard in an interview with the technology news website Recode. He said: "There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week." 
It is not just Mr Musk who works hard. Workers at his companies also put in very long hours. Musk said "everyone" at Tesla has worked 100 hours per week at times this year. He said this was necessary to make sure the Tesla Model 3 car could survive. He said: "There wasn't some other way to do this." Musk acknowledged that some Tesla employees were unhappy with working so hard. He said some workers called the hours "excessive," while others said they prefer to work 70 or more hours per week. Musk said the "pain level" of working hard increases above 80 hours a week, but he didn't say what the pain was. The average CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company works around 70 hours a week.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812630476 G1: Dirt is good for babies https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812630758 It seems like common sense to most parents to make sure their baby is always in a clean place. Most parents do their best to keep dirt and bacteria away from their little ones. However, a scientist says dirt is an important part of making babies stronger. Dr Jack Gilbert from the University of Chicago studies the ecosystems of bacteria. He did research into how dirt and bacteria affect children. He published his research in a book called 'Dirt is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child’s Developing Immune System'. He told America's NPR news station that: "It's fine to wash their hands if there's a…flu virus going around, but if they're interacting with a dog and the dog licks their face, that's not a bad thing."
Dr Gilbert wrote that letting children get dirty was largely beneficial. Exposing small kids to dirt helps them to build their immune system. Dr Gilbert even argues that children often get allergies because parents try to protect their kids too much and try too hard to clean everything that children use. He said parents now over-sterilize everything in the home. This causes children's immune systems to become too sensitive, which can lead to things like asthma, eczema, and food allergies. Gilbert even defended the "five-second rule". Many people think it is OK to eat something that fell on the floor for fewer than five seconds. Gilbert says it is OK to eat something that fell on the floor as long as the floor isn't really dirty.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812630758 G1: Education adviser attacks UK schools. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812631151 An education adviser has attacked British schools and teachers. The adviser works closely with the UK Education Secretary Michael Gove. Mr Gove is unpopular with British teachers. The adviser made teachers very angry about a new report he made. He said education in Britain is between very bad and ordinary. He said most teachers do not do a good job in the classroom and that "real talent is rare". He wrote: "In England, few teachers are well trained in the basics of extended writing or mathematical and scientific modelling and problem-solving."
Mr Cummings also attacked other areas of Britain's schools. He said billions of dollars are "wasted" on poorer students and on "pointless" university courses. He said too many university courses teach students little and do not help them get a job. He said university students should work harder. Cummings angered teachers by saying 70 per cent of a child's ability in the classroom is because of genes, and not because of teachers. Many people said Mr Cummings should be fired. One said he has too many "mad" ideas. Many teachers also want Michael Gove to be fired.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812631151 How to Use News in Levels (Nhóm 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812631923 News in Levels helps students learn English. Do you know how to use News in Levels correctly? This little manual can help you.

  1. Read two articles every day. It is important to do something for your English every day.
  2. Listen to last 10 articles.
  3. When you walk or travel to somewhere, try to say aloud to yourself what were the articles about.
It is important to do these three activities every day, ideally 30 minutes reading, 30 minutes listening and 30 minutes speaking.

If you like News in Levels, please send this link to your friends who could also benefit from this website – www.newsinlevels.com. Thank you very much.

Have a nice day,

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]]> 2021-10-13 02:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812631923 Unhappy marriages can break the heart https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812632146 A new study shows that people in unhappy marriages have a higher risk of getting a broken heart. A bad marriage is riskier for older women. They get more heart disease than men because of the stress of being in a relationship gone wrong. The study is from Michigan State University in the USA. Lead researcher Dr Hui Lui said the stress of being in an unhappy marriage has a big impact on the health of our heart. Dr Lui said one reason for older women having more heart problems is because they are generally more caring. A wife is more likely to provide support and care for her sick husband than the other way round. Also, if a wife is sick and cannot look after her husband, she can get stressed about this.
Dr Lui's team studied the health of 1,200 married men and women aged 57 to 85 over a five-year period. The researchers asked the married couples questions about their marital quality. They asked about whether they spent free time with or apart from their partner. They also asked if they could trust and rely on their spouse, and whether their spouse asks them to do too many things and is unfair. The doctors looked at the quality of the marriages to see who was happy and who was not. They then compared this with the number of heart attacks and strokes people had. People in bad marriages were more depressed, more obese and had higher blood pressure.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812632146 Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812632460 Researchers in the UK are hoping to harness 6G technology to start virtual teleportation by sending all the human senses and to turn science fiction into science fact.

According to Rahim Tafazoli, the founder and director of the Institute for Communications Systems, since 1G, all the way to 5G, scientists managed to send only two of the human senses, which are seeing and hearing. Tafazoli and his team are now trying to add the other three senses, which are touch, taste, and smell.

To enable virtual reality images to interact will requires high accurate time synchronization which is not possible with 5G technology. However, once super fast 6G is possible, it will open huge possibilities. The technology could allow our virtual reality selves to do much more than only interact on a screen. For example, our doctor could come to our house, touch our hand, and feel our temperature, as if we were seeing him face to face in his office.

Difficult words: harness (to control and use something), teleportation (the transfer of living or nonliving things from one point to another without moving through space), turn science fiction into science fact (to change something that seems impossible to something possible). synchronization (the act of happening at the same time).

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]]> 2021-10-13 02:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812632460 23 million men married before they were 15 (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812632466 UNICEF has issued a report on the number of boys who get married around the world. It estimates that 115 million boys and men were married as children. Of these, one in five, or 23 million, were married before the age of 15. The report is UNICEF's first ever in-depth study of child grooms. UNICEF said a lot of news focuses on young girls being forced into marriage as child brides. The new report looks at the same problem of forced marriage but with boys. The UN agency looked at data from 82 countries. It found that child marriage among boys is common in countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and nations in the Pacific. The Central African Republic has the highest rate of child grooms.
UNICEF commented on the damage child marriage does to boys. It said: "Marriage steals childhood. Child grooms are forced to take on adult responsibilities for which they may not be ready. Early marriage brings early fatherhood, and with it added pressure to provide for a family, cutting short education and job opportunities." UNICEF spoke about the harm child marriage does to boys and girls. It said: "When we think about child marriage we often think about girls, and rightly so because girls are most affected, but boys do marry in childhood." It added: "[Child marriage] creates a burden for boys to take on adult responsibilities and roles when they are still children themselves, like providing for a family."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812632466 Tokyo 2020 Olympics begin G5 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812633193 Tokyo 2020 Olympics begin (G5)
The Olympic flame for Tokyo 2020 has been lit as this year´s Olympics starts. More than 11,300 athletes from 207 nations will compete over the next couple of weeks in 33 sports.

Olympic groups landed amid the threat of the infectious delta variant that has triggered case surges throughout Asia. With Tokyo in a state of emergency throughout the Olympics after a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections, the Games have come under huge criticism from the Japanese public. The majority of them said that they wanted the Olympics to be canceled or postponed again. However, safety is paramount for the organizers, and huge precautions are being taken.

For the first time in history, events will be held without spectators, and winners will place their own medals around their necks. Athletes social distance in the Olympic Village, they must wear a face mask at all times, and they eat between plastic barriers in the cafeteria. Unfortunately, the virus has affected the Games already, with 11 positive cases among athletes.

Difficult words: surge (a sudden increase), paramount (more important than anything else), precaution (an action to prevent something dangerous or unpleasant).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812633193 Dog cafe in LA (Nhóm 6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812633509 A dog café opened in Los Angeles and lets customers couple their cappuccinos with a bit of pooch playtime with dogs who are looking for a new home. Due to high demand, ten dollars gets you a cup of joe and 55 minutes with the dogs.

Every dog has been rescued from a shelter and now café owner Sarah Wolfgang and her staff are rehabilitating them. She said that her hope is to decrease the number of dogs that are euthanised at shelters across Los Angeles as well as other cities if the idea of a business like this spreads.

Difficult words: couple (put together), pooch (a dog), demand (how much people want to come), joe (slang for ‘coffee’), shelter (a place where people put homeless animals or people), decrease (make lower), euthanise (kill).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812633509 Google Meet video conferencing platform improved nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812633813 Google has improved its video conferencing platform Meet to be able to compete with other platforms. One new feature is that users can now see 16 people on their screen. Previously, there were only four people on their screen at one time. Meet's new gallery view comes at a time when more people around the world are using video conferencing services. Many people are speaking to family and friends during lockdown; companies are having meetings online; and schools and universities changed from classroom teaching to online teaching.
Google said Meet would help millions around the world in lockdown. It wrote: "Remote work has become increasingly necessary for public safety and wellbeing - which makes staying connected, even while we're apart, more important than ever." Rapidly growing numbers of people are using Meet. Google says they now have the features they need "to share and be productive". Google will introduce more features like blocking out background noise from keystrokes when people type. Users will also be able to improve video quality if the lighting in their room is not good enough.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812633813 Woman gives birth to nine children( nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812634120 Most of us know what twins, triplets and quadruplets are, but do we know the word for nine babies born at a single birth? The answer is nonuplets. A 25-year-old Malian woman, Halima Cisse, has given birth to nine babies. This is a new world record. People in Mali followed the pregnancy with great interest. They were surprised when doctors announced the nonuplets. After having scans, Ms Cisse thought she would have seven babies (septuplets).
Ms Cisse is in good health. Her five baby boys and four girls are doing well. Mali's health minister congratulated her on the "happy outcome". He thanked Mali's president for his "leadership and generosity" which helped Halima. It was a little touch-and-go in the early stages of the pregnancy. Doctors worried about Ms Cisse's welfare and the chances of her babies' survival. They asked a hospital in Morocco for help. She got good postnatal care there.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812634120 G1: Researchers want to 'correct' Japanese English https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812634886 There are many types of English. Some well-known ones in Asia are Chinglish in China and Singlish in Singapore. Some professors in Japan are worried about how the government uses English. In particular, they say the government uses computer translations too much. Many translations create strange and confusing expressions. Many of these are even confusing to English speakers. The professors worry this could have a negative impact on Japan's tourism industry. They say the increasing amount of strange, translated words is becoming a "national embarrassment" in Japan.
The professors say computer software often gives bad translations of the Chinese characters used in Japanese writing. Examples of this are job centres called "Hello Work" and a plan to help tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic called "Go To Travel". The professors say the strange translations could easily be corrected if they were checked by an English speaker. A Christmas message being used by a Japanese department store has worried people. It says "Stay Positive." Many people think this is the wrong thing to say during coronavirus.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812634886 N4-Cat café – level 2 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812635204 In June, Giovanna Molinaro opened a cat café in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The first cat café opened in Taiwan in 1998, and cat cafés quickly became popular in Asia. Cat owners could come there with their pets and enjoy a cup of coffee.

Rio´s Gato Café is different. Customers enjoy their coffee while cats lie lazily in another room. The place serves lattes with cat silhouettes and biscuits which look like paws.

The Gato Café is also a place for abandoned cats which people rescue. In 2019, there were over 78 million cats and dogs in Brazil. When owners died, and the coronavirus brought problems to many families, thousands of cats and dogs ended up in the streets.

Difficult words: silhouette (the shape of something without any details in it), paw (a cat or dog´s foot), abandon (to leave behind without care and help).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812635204 Egypt mummies - Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812635515 On Saturday, there was a special ceremony in Cairo, Egypt. Officials transported 22 mummies from a museum in central Cairo to a new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

Organizers transported the mummies on vehicles which looked like ancient boats. Egyptians used similar boats to carry dead kings and queens to their tombs. The vehicles had shock absorbers that were special devices that made the journey safer for the mummies. The mummies were around 3,000 years old and they included famous Queen Hatshepsut and King Ramses II. People believe that Ramses II was the greatest and most powerful pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.

Organizers held this ceremony because they wanted to show the best of Egypt, and they hoped that more tourists would visit the country.

Difficult words: mummy (a body of a dead person or animal which people made to last for a long time after the death), tomb (a large stone structure where people put the dead body of an important person), pharaoh (a king of ancient Egypt).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812635515 Crashing bicycles in Brussels (Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812635824 A pair of cyclists in Brussels have braved more than a few bruises to create a video that has become an Internet sensation. So the question is, why they have done it? Well, it’s to highlight the plight of those who choose to travel around the Belgian capital on two wheels.

The video, which shows its makers crashing into street furniture as they cycle around the city, has become something of an Internet hit, reaching more than 100,000 views in just over three weeks, since it was published on the 11th of February.

The amateur video reflects a movement of growing discontent amongst cyclists in the city, in contrast to European cities, which lead the way for city cycling, such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

Difficult words: brave (to suffer something on purpose), bruise (a purple or brown mark on your skin you get when you are hurt), sensation (something that is very interesting), plight (situation), discontent (unhappiness).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812635824 China grows plants on the moon (nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812636635 For the first time ever, plants from Earth are growing on the moon. The China National Space Administration showed photos of cotton seeds sprouting into life. The administration said the cotton plants were among several plants that were "growing well". Other plants that are now growing on the moon are potatoes, rock cress and rapeseed. The plants are part of a project on China's space mission to the far side of the moon. The project is called a "moon surface micro-ecological circle". Project leader Liu Hanlong says the cotton seeds were the first to sprout. He said the plants were chosen because they were small, strong and could grow in the difficult conditions on the moon's surface.
Professor Hanlong said the project's aim was to understand more about how plants grow outside of Earth. The long-term aim is to develop plants that can grow on the moon or on planets like Mars. The professor said: "We have given consideration to future survival in space. Learning about these plants growing in a low-gravity environment would allow us to lay the foundation for our future establishment of a space base." The project also includes yeast and fruit flies. The professor hopes the six organisms in the project will make up a mini-ecosystem. The plants will produce oxygen and food for the fruit flies, and the yeast could manage the flies' waste and the dead plants to provide another food source.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812636635 Coffee shop car (Nhóm6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812638183 A 33-year-old man from Jordan works as a driver and a few years ago, he saw an unusual car in the street. The car sold coffee and Ahmed liked the idea very much.

In 2019, Ahmed bought a Volkswagen Beetle and he changed it into a coffee shop. At first, his idea was to earn extra money during Ramadan. Then when the coronavirus pandemic started, Ahmed needed to make more money. He decided to sell coffee and other drinks every day.

Some people buy Ahmed´s coffee daily, and they love the taste of it. Sometimes, when Ahmed is late people are already waiting for him. His green car attracts drivers who want to try his coffee and to see how he makes it.

Difficult words: earn (to get money for work), Ramadan (the ninth month of the Muslim year when people do not eat during the day), attract (to make somebody interested in something).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812638183 G1: Starbucks plans to employ 10,000 refugees https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812639917 Starbucks boss Howard Schultz has said his company would employ 10,000 refugees over the next five years. Mr Schultz is the CEO of the international coffee shop chain. He is very unhappy with President Donald Trump's new ban on the citizens of seven Middle Eastern and North African countries. Schultz said his promise was, "a concerted effort to welcome and seek opportunities for those fleeing war, violence, persecution and discrimination". He added: "There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business."
Many people are angry at Mr Schultz's plans. Trump supporters have asked people to boycott Starbucks coffee shops. They say that Mr Schultz should be doing more to help the 40,000 unemployed military veterans in the USA instead of refugees. Starbucks said it has already hired 8,800 of the 10,000 veterans it promised to hire in 2013 by 2018. Trump supporters have also asked consumers to quit doing business with other companies who are critical of the President, like Macy’s and Amazon. On the opposite side, opponents of Mr. Trump have started the hashtag #GrabYourWallet. This encourages consumers to avoid doing business with companies that have supported Mr Trump or have business links to him.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812639917 Online learning and lessons to continue in 2021 nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812640172 The year 2020 has been difficult for hundreds of thousands of teachers. They have had to deliver lessons using online platforms. Millions of students have had lessons on websites like Zoom. This has caused a major transformation in education. The quality of education differs according to Internet speeds, the levels of teacher preparedness and teachers' competence in using technology. Many students had no lessons because they had no computer.
Malaysia has started a new programme to help underprivileged children. Eligible students will get a device so they can have online lessons. Malaysia wants to help students and schools in need and find the best methods to expand the programme. There are plans to improve educational TV shows for students with no Internet access. Malaysia will also employ sign language interpreters to help the hard of hearing. It wants to focus on students' needs.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812640172 N9 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812640527 In August 2020, twin girls were born in Israel. They never saw each other because they were joined at the head. Last week, they could look at each other for the first time.

A team of experts from Israel and other countries spent a year planning a surgery which would separate the girls. It was a complicated surgery, and the team used 3D and virtual reality models to plan it. Doctors performed this surgery only twenty times in the world, and it was the first time that they did it in Israel.

Months before the surgery, doctors put silicone bags into the girls´ heads which lengthened their skin. After the doctors reconstructed the skulls, they used the new skin to close the heads. The surgery took 12 hours, and it was successful. The girls will live normal lives.

Difficult words: joined (connected), silicone (a special metal material which doctors can use in bodies), skull (the bones of the head).]]> 2021-10-13 02:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812640527 Amazon buys MGM studios - Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812641181 Amazon is going to buy MGM Studios for $8.5 billion. MGM Studios created many famous movies and TV shows such as Rocky, James Bond, and the award-winning Silence of the Lambs.

Amazon’s purchase of MGM helps it be stronger in the crowded and competitive streaming market. Amazon shelled out a lot on the streaming services for video and music content just in 2020.

Last week, AT&T merged its Warner Media business that includes HBO with Discovery, which led to another big change in the overall entertainment business.

Difficult words: crowded (when there are too many people in one place), streaming (when you watch a movie over the Internet), shell out (to spend a lot of money or effort), merge (to combine).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812641181 G8: Airline has money problems https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812641418 Philippine Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US with a plan that helps the country´s main airlines recover after the pandemic devastated global travel.

As a part of a survival plan set on Monday, the airline said that it would return 22 of its jets to lessors and postponing delivery of new planes on order. The airline is now pursuing financial restructuring that will cut two billion dollars in borrowing and raise new money. However, the airlines doesn´t expect a recovery to pre-crisis levels of business until 2024.

The restructuring plan needs court approval, and it will allow the airline to reduce its fleet capacity by 25%. The airline will also get 505 million dollars in equity and debt financing from its majority investor, as well as 150 million of debt financing from new investors.

While an end to lockdowns eased the hurt on travel in the northern part of the world, the delta variant of COVID-19 has recently begun hurting many airlines again in the US and China.

Difficult words: lessor (a person or company who leases or lends land or equipment to somebody else), fleet (a number of vehicles or planes that an organization owns), equity and debt financing (raising money through the sale of shares and parts of the business).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812641418 Fish attack students (Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812641451 An American university rowing team came under attack by giant flying fish. The Asian Carp probably got scared and started to jump out of the water.

The group had to stop rowing and wait until the frenzy ended. Someone filmed the incident on camera and it went viral on the Internet.

The fish can jump up to 10 feet (3 metres) in the air, and the fish injured a number of boaters in the past. The boys, however, were lucky in a way – they want to raise money from the video to help them pay for their trip to the National Rowing Championship.

Difficult words: rowing (the sport of making a boat move through water), frenzy (a situation when something crazy happens), viral (very popular).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812641451 Pink Chocolate-N9 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812641697 The newest natural colour for chocolate is pink, after 80 years of the colours that we are used to. The colour comes from a ‘newly discovered’ cocoa bean, and people have been developing it for 13 years.

Some people are sceptical about the claims about pink chocolate. Angus Kennedy, editor of a magazine about sweets, says that people are selling this to those who are ‘hedonistic, self-indulgent consumers’ that are not worried about the cost. He thinks that people will sell this chocolate for at least twice as much just because they can.

Fatima Mendy, founder of a chocolate store, said that all cocoa beans become dark chocolate. She thinks that the pink chocolate will either be a crossbreed or white chocolate mixed with fruit.

Difficult words: claims (what people say), hedonistic (someone who thinks that pleasure is the most important thing), self-indulgent (when you get things that you like but do not need), crossbreed (when two different plants or animals breed together, they make a new plant or animal).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812641697 COVID-19 booster vaccine – Nhóm 8 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812642249 A group of scientists from all over the world said that COVID-19 vaccines worked well. It was not necessary to use booster vaccines.

Many people already argue that it is not necessary to use booster vaccines, and the news will make the argument even more interesting.

Scientists used data from many studies and tests. They said that countries should keep vaccinating people who did not get a vaccine yet instead of giving booster vaccines to people who already were vaccinated.

Another problem was that if rich countries use booster vaccines, companies will not have enough capacity to make the other vaccines, too. This is important that countries started to think globally and did not focus on only their own problems.

Difficult words: booster vaccine (an extra vaccine which strengthens an earlier vaccine), capacity (the amount of something which a company makes), globally (relating to the whole world).



]]> 2021-10-13 02:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812642249 (Nhóm 4)Online shopping addiction is a mental illness https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812642593 The Internet makes shopping at home convenient. However, shopping can be addictive. Experts say online shopping addiction is a mental illness. Researchers from the Hannover Medical School called the illness "Buying Shopping Disorder" (BSD). They say the doctors should recognize it as an illness, not just as one of various "impulse control" disorders. Dr Astrid Müller said: "It really is time to...accumulate further knowledge about BSD on the Internet."
Dr Müller conducted research on 122 patients who had treatment for BSD. She said five per cent of people might suffer from it. Younger people are more likely to develop it, and be more anxious and depressed. People with BSD act unnaturally. They buy expensive things they don't need, keep and never use things they buy, buy things for instant gratification, and end up in debt. BSD can destroy marriages, relationships and mental health.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812642593 Taxi driver offers free rides for singing karaoke(G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812643165 A taxi driver is offering free rides for singing a song. Tu Ching Liang, 57, is a big fan of karaoke. He loves listening to people sing. He is famous for his taxi's colourful, flashing disco lights. It is easy to see his taxi. It has a pink neon star on the dashboard. People can choose a "karaoke" option on a taxi-locating app in the capital city Taipei. Mr Tu's taxi will appear on your smartphone screen. When it arrives, he will give you a microphone and an iPad for you to go to YouTube and select the song you want to sing. He says people are braver at night.
Mr Tu loves his job. He joked: "No one is as lucky as me...rushing to go to work and not make any money." He added: "I've been driving a taxi for 27 years, giving money as rewards for singing karaoke for eight years....I've filmed over 10,000 videos." He told a reporter from a newspaper that if people do not sing, they do not get a discount or a free ride. Some of Mr Tu's videos on YouTube have been viewed over two million times. He is now a celebrity and has been on TV shows in 10 countries. His dream is to have singer Ed Sheeran as a passenger in his taxi.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812643165 Kids run more slowly than 30 years ago (NHÓM 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812643265 A new report from the American Heart Association says fitness levels in children are lower today than they were 30 years ago. The researchers looked at data from the past 46 years. The statistics were on more than 25 million children in 28 countries. The research team found that on average, today's children run one kilometre about one minute slower than their parents did three decades ago. The figures were roughly the same for boys and girls. The distance a child can run is decreasing by around half of one per cent every year. One of the biggest reasons for the slowdown in children's running ability is obesity. Kids are overweight because they are eating too much and not exercising enough.
The researchers say their report is worrying. If children are becoming fatter and less fit, they will be unhealthier in the future. Lead researcher Dr Grant Tomkinson said: "If a young person is generally unfit now, then they are more likely to develop conditions like heart disease later in life." Dr Tomkinson said: "We need to help to inspire children and youth to develop fitness habits that will keep them healthy now and into the future. They need to choose a range of physical activities they like or think they might like to try, and they need to get moving." He added: "Young people can be fit in different ways. They can be strong like a weightlifter, or flexible like a gymnast, or skillful like a tennis player."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812643265 Cartoon character ban could come to candy bars (NHÓM 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812645362 Candy and chocolate manufacturers in the UK may have to stop using cartoon characters on their products. An alliance of health groups said many food companies use characters from Peppa Pig and Disney on their packaging. The companies use the characters to get children to buy chocolate and candies. The health groups said 51 per cent of products using cartoon characters were unhealthy for children. The products fell below the health requirements needed to advertise on TV during children's shows. The health groups said the products were very high in fat, sugar and salt. The groups are asking the government to ban the use of these characters to sell unhealthy products to children.
There are three groups trying to get a ban on cartoon characters on chocolate and candy. They are Action on Sugar, Action on Salt and the Children's Food Campaign. They looked at the nutrition content of 526 products that were aimed at children. The products' wrapping had colourful cartoon characters to appeal to children. The Peppa Pig Candy Bites were among the worst products. These contained 99 per cent sugar. Dr Kather Hashem, a nutritionist from the Action on Sugar group, said: "It's shocking that companies are exploiting the health of our children by using cartoon characters on their high-sugar food and drink products, particularly on chocolates and sweets, which are already hard to resist for children."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812645362 Working Week(nhóm 8)https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1811/181129-working-week.html https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812645684 One of the world's most successful business leaders, Elon Musk, has said that people need to work from around 80 to over 100 hours per week to "change the world". Mr Musk knows what he is talking about because he has his finger in many pies. He is the founder, CEO and lead designer of SpaceX; the co-founder and CEO of the car company Tesla; and the co-founder of PayPal. He works very hard on many projects that have changed and could change our lives. He said he is a workaholic but he loves what he does. He talked about working hard in an interview with the technology news website Recode. He said: "There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week."

It is not just Mr Musk who works hard. Workers at his companies also put in very long hours. Musk said "everyone" at Tesla has worked 100 hours per week at times this year. He said this was necessary to make sure the Tesla Model 3 car could survive. He said: "There wasn't some other way to do this." Musk acknowledged that some Tesla employees were unhappy with working so hard. He said some workers called the hours "excessive," while others said they prefer to work 70 or more hours per week. Musk said the "pain level" of working hard increases above 80 hours a week, but he didn't say what the pain was. The average CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company works around 70 hours a week.]]> 2021-10-13 02:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812645684 Young people buy clothes online (N4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812646731 Depop is a shopping app made for and by Gen Z, and it is taking the sustainable shopping world by storm, boasting more than 30 million users across 150 countries.

Depop is an online hub where people buy and sell used clothing, vintage shoes, and accessories, and the hub is disrupting the global retail industry.

Depop is powered by young influencers like 20-year-old Moira Campos who is one of Depop´s top sellers. She has about 40,000 followers, and selling clothes online has become a full-time job for her. She works with her brother to find, shoot, and sell dozens of items on the app every week.

According to analysts, Depop could be a real threat to traditional retailers because the younger generation and influencers like to create one-of-a-kind outfits at a great price. However, there are questions about ethics, too. Some young sellers buy clothing in bulk, and then they sell them on the online store for twice the price. As more teens turn to the app, some people fear that sustainability might lose out to profitability.

Difficult words: hub (the most important place where a particular activity takes place), vintage (clothing, jewelry or other things that aren´t new but still valued because of the quality or good condition), ethics (when people think something is good or bad), bulk (many items of the same thing).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812646731 Sinkhole in China – G5 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812647114 A huge sinkhole appeared in the middle of a street in China. A motorcyclist drove right into it because he was looking down at his phone. Thankfully, he made it out with only minor injuries.

Difficult words: huge (very big), appear (come to a place or exist quickly), minor (small).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812647114 Albino Whale in Mexico – level 2 nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812648156 Albinism happens when an animal or a human is born with very little or without the pigment melanin that makes colour in the skin.

People see it in mammals, birds and reptiles, but rarely in marine mammals, until the 2008 to 2009 season of the grey whale migration near Mexico.

During that season, experts saw a young albino whale. Now, the experts study grey whales off the Pacific Coast and see the albino whale again. She swims with her baby that is normal-coloured.

Difficult words: pigment (colour), melanin (the colour in hair or skin), albino (very white skin).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

]]> 2021-10-13 02:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812648156 G1: Asia has most of the world's billionaires https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812648241

A newly-published report on global wealth says that for the first time, Asia has more dollar billionaires than the USA. According to the Global Rich List 2013 from the research institute Hurun, there were 1,453 people whose personal worth was $1 billion or more at the end of January. Asia had 608 billionaires, compared with 440 in the USA and 324 in Europe. Moscow came top of the list of billionaire capitals of the world with 76 of the world's mega-rich; New York, Hong Kong, Beijing and London followed. The world's wealthiest person is Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, who has $66 billion. He is followed by US investor Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega, boss of the fashion brand Zara.

The report's author, Luxembourg accountant Rupert Hoogewerf, believes there are a lot more billionaires in the world. He said that for every billionaire he found, he probably missed another two. This means it might be more accurate to say there are 4,000 billionaires living a life of luxury. Mr Hoogewerf also believes that the number of wealthy Chinese will continue to rise as more business leaders target worldwide markets. He said: "Chinese entrepreneurs are preparing their international expansion plans. It is a very new concept but growing very fast." The report says the youngest billionaire is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, 28, who is 42nd on the list and has a personal fortune of $17 billion.Sources:]]> 2021-10-13 02:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812648241 Nike gave workers a week off to de-stress ( Nhóm 3 ) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812649398 Nike gave its office workers a holiday to help them de-stress from life's worries and the COVID-19 pandemic. The sportswear giant gave its workers a week-long mental health break. It closed its offices so workers could "enjoy additional time off to rest and recover". Nike wants to focus on fighting "burnout". A senior manager at Nike, Matt Marrazzo, said: "Our senior leaders are all sending a clear message – take the time to unwind, de-stress and spend time with your loved ones. Do not work." Nike's stores are still open and store workers are working as usual.

Mr Marrazzo said Nike was taking the lead in mental health issues. He said: "Taking time for rest and recovery is key to performing well and staying sane. This past year has been rough. We're all human and living through a traumatic event." He added that caring for workers "will have a positive impact on the culture of work moving forward." Marrazzo said the week off was to show that Nike "can prioritize mental health and still get work done". He wrote: "Support your people. It's good business, but it's also the right thing to do."]]> 2021-10-13 02:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812649398 Young people are not watching TV news(G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812649565 Young people are watching less TV news. A regulatory broadcasting body in the UK said this is no surprise as young people are addicted to smartphones. They prefer YouTube videos and games to TV news. A newspaper reported that the young "are more likely to get their day's news about the world from social media or by reading graffiti in bus stations" than by watching TV. The average 16-24-year-old watches live TV news for just two minutes a day.
Research into the news-viewing habits of British people shows that youth are using social media as their news source. People are making more posts on Facebook and Twitter about the news compared to last year. The regulatory body said presenting news stories in a less complicated way might attract more young people to watch TV news. Some people suggested this would be "dumbing down content for young audiences".
]]> 2021-10-13 02:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812649565 Doctors separate babies (Nhóm 6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812650316 In August 2020, twin girls were born in Israel. They never saw each other because they were joined at the head. Last week, they could look at each other for the first time.

A team of experts from Israel and other countries spent a year planning a surgery which would separate the girls. It was a complicated surgery, and the team used 3D and virtual reality models to plan it. Doctors performed this surgery only twenty times in the world, and it was the first time that they did it in Israel.

Months before the surgery, doctors put silicone bags into the girls´ heads which lengthened their skin. After the doctors reconstructed the skulls, they used the new skin to close the heads. The surgery took 12 hours, and it was successful. The girls will live normal lives.

Difficult words: joined (connected), silicone (a special metal material which doctors can use in bodies), skull (the bones of the head).



]]> 2021-10-13 02:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812650316 Sad panda watches TV (NHÓM 3 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812650644 To most of us this panda named Sijia looks like your standard panda, chilling out and loving life, right?

Wrong. Sijia’s companion was sadly moved away from their zoo in China last week, and since then zookeepers have noticed her becoming depressed and not eating properly. So on Monday, worried staff at the Yunnan Wild Animal Park moved in some new company for the lonely panda: a new television!

Yes, Sijia now has her own flat screen TV to enjoy, after a swing and bars didn’t seem to cheer her up.

After staff played her video footage of her and her former companion, Sijia is now said to be much happier and comes out naturally to play on her swing.

Difficult words: chill out (relax), companion (friend), swing (seat on ropes for playing), cheer up (make happy).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812650644 Plane drops fish -G5 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812652039 The Utah division of wildlife resources has released video footage showing fish being loaded onto a plane and then dropped into their new home, a lake in the state´s Boulder mountain region.

Utah and other states across the US have been restocking lakes for decades. Before the 1950s, fish were loaded into milk cans and drawn by horses to remote areas. Plane drops are much quicker, cost-effective, and they´re supposed to be less stressful for the fish.

The fish include rainbow trout, tiger trout, splake, and other fish that are specifically raised for fishing. They´re dropped into fish-less lakes that don´t have any natural reproduction, and therefore they don´t affect any native fish populations.

The planes hold hundreds of kilograms of water, and they can drop 35,000 fish in one flight. According to experts, the fish are small and released along with water, which means that they survive their airplane drop without injury.

Difficult words: draw (to take something somewhere), cost-effective (producing good results without costing a lot of money), reproduction (the process when living organisms produce other organisms of the same kind), native (the place or environment in which something or someone was born).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812652039 Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812652952 News in Levels helps students learn English. Do you know how to use News in Levels correctly? This little manual can help you.

  1. Read two articles every day. It is important to do something for your English every day.
  2. Listen to last 10 articles.
  3. When you walk or travel to somewhere, try to say aloud to yourself what were the articles about.
It is important to do these three activities every day, ideally 30 minutes reading, 30 minutes listening and 30 minutes speaking.

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Have a nice day,

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]]> 2021-10-13 02:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812652952 (nhóm 8) Robots smarter than humans by 2029 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812653439 A scientist thinks robots will be more intelligent than humans by 2029. His name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as Director of Engineering. He is a leading expert on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr Kurzweil says computers will learn from experiences, just like us. He says they will tell jokes and stories, and even flirt. His 2029 prediction is a lot sooner than many people thought. In 1999, many experts said it would take hundreds of years for computers to be very intelligent. Now it won't be long before computer intelligence is one billion times more powerful than the human brain.
Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he was a little crazy. His thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has changed their thinking. He said his views were not crazy any more. He said the rest of the world was changing its view. He pointed to examples of high-tech things we use, see or read about every day. These make us think computers are intelligent. He said people changed because the public has seen things like voice-recognition technology, where you talk to a computer. He also said Google's self-driving cars make people think about computer intelligence.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812653439 When women run the economy - Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812653563 Many women have top jobs in the biggest economic institutions in the world, and it can be a very important change from the situation ten years ago.

In the US, women have top jobs in President Biden´s government. Almost 48% of officials in Biden´s government are women, and it can have a big impact on people´s lives. Women in top jobs seem to care more about how people really live and not only about numbers.

Outside the US, the situation is changing, too, and more women have top jobs in important global institutions. These institutions are, for example, the European Central Bank or the World Trade Organization.

The last global crisis had a big impact on women, who are 39% of all working people. 54% of people who lost jobs during the crisis were women. Women finance ministers and leaders bring more hope to all working women.

Difficult words: top job (the most important position in a company), economic institution (banks and other companies which deal with money), finance minister (the person in a government who cares about the country´s money).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812653563 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812654400 N9
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that 70% of the European Union´s adult population was fully vaccinated against COVID-19, hitting a target that was set at the beginning of the year.

Von der Leyen said that the EU reached an important step in its vaccination campaign, with more than 250 million people immunized. However, the pandemic isn´t over, and the EU must stay vigilant. This means that many more Europeans need to get vaccinated quickly to avoid a new wave of infections and to stop the emergence of new variants. Taking children and teenagers into account, more than 55% of the overall EU population has been fully vaccinated, compared with 52% in the US, 61% in Israel, and 64% in the UK.

The EU has sent about half of the vaccines made in Europe to other countries in the world, which is as much as it´s given to its citizens, contributing to a global and fair access to vaccines across the world.

Difficult words: immunize (to protect someone against a particular disease or infection, often by giving an injection), vigilant (keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties), emergence (coming into existence).]]> 2021-10-13 02:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812654400 People do not sleep enough ( Nhóm 6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812655496 Sleep deprivation is a global issue in all the major cities around the world where the amount of sleep decreasing over decades. Now, the decrease is growing with the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stress plays a major role in how we sleep. People are meant to have some kind of routines, and many people lost them during the pandemic and especially during lockdowns. People woke up and went to sleep at odd times, they ate at odd times, and all of that definitely affected their biological rhythms.

Sleep is essential to health, along with nutrition and good exercise. Good quality and good quantity sleep keeps us healthy, and the lack of sleep adds to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and mood disorders. It also affects our higher thinking functions such as problem solving, planning, decision making, risk-taking and, controlling our impulses. People tend to think that they have to sleep less so that they can work more.

Difficult words: sleep deprivation (not getting enough sleep over a long period of time), onslaught (a sudden attack), biological rhythm (when your body tells you it is time to do something like eat or sleep).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812655496 Criminals have smaller brain size, says study （nhóm9） https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812655623 A new study has found that antisocial people are more likely to have smaller areas of their brain. Researchers said criminals' brains had a different structure to the brains of people who followed the law. The study is published in the journal "Lancet Psychiatry". Researchers used data from 672 people born in 1972-73. They looked at records of the people's antisocial behaviour between the ages of seven and 26. At the age of 45, the researchers scanned the people's brains. Eighty of the people had a history of criminal and antisocial behaviour from being early teenagers. Researchers found that the areas of the brain linked to emotions, motivation and behaviour control were smaller in the long-term criminals' brains.
Professor Terrie Moffitt, a co-author of the research, said the research could help doctors understand what is behind long-term antisocial behaviour. She said the antisocial people in the study may have behaved badly because of their brain structure. She said: "They are actually operating under some [disability] at the level of the brain." She added that because of this, we needed to care for these people in a kinder way. Lead author Dr Christina Carlisi said: "Differences in brain structure might make it difficult for people to develop social skills. This may prevent them from engaging in antisocial behaviour. These people could benefit from more support throughout their lives."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812655623 G1: Half-a-billion dollars of bitcoins disappear . https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812655904 Almost $500 million of bitcoins disappeared from a company in Japan. The company is called Mt. Gox and it was one of the world's biggest dealers in bitcoins. It shut down last week after it lost 850,000 bitcoins, worth $473 million. The company's CEO said hackers stole the digital currency. He apologised to investors on Thursday at Japan's Ministry of Justice. Thousands of investors are angry because they lost the money they invested in Mt. Gox. Bitcoin is a virtual currency – it only exists online for electronic payments. Anyone can buy and use bitcoins. There is no need to open a bank account. Many people believe that bitcoins will replace paper money, coins and credit cards. 
The collapse of Mt. Gox did not surprise online finance experts. Many said it was an accident waiting to happen. They also said Bitcoin will recover from the Mt. Gox shock. There are no rules or laws to control Bitcoin so the collapse of Mt. Gox could mean a better system will come. Companies will now make their security tighter and governments might create laws to make Bitcoin safer. Barry Silbert, CEO of Bitcoin company SecondMarket, says the currency will bounce back. He told reporters: "If you look at the short history of Bitcoin, there has been a series of bubbles, busts, hacks and thefts. After every single event, Bitcoin has emerged stronger." 
]]> 2021-10-13 02:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812655904 Better Future for Businesses (Nhóm 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812656416 Once COVID-19 vaccination is widespread, consumer and workplace behavior will likely change and it will impact markets. Which sectors will respond to the vaccine?

In anticipation of the roll out, one of the biggest increases is the energy sector. As people become more mobile, flying, going on cruise lines, or doing road trips, there´s going to be a higher demand for gasoline and oil.

Information technology is going to ease off, as people start to get back to work and not need some items that they have been using during the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for agricultural products that revolve around restaurants is likely to increase. These products include, for example, sugar or coffee.

Difficult words: sector (an area of business or a place), anticipation (a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that is going to happen), roll out (to introduce something for a widespread sale or use to the public), ease off (to be reduced in degree or intensity).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812656416 The world needs 69 million more teachers (NHÓM 3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812656448 A new report says the world needs another 69 million teachers by 2030. The United Nations (UN) agency UNESCO made a promise that every child in the world would get a primary and secondary education in the next 14 years. UNESCO says a lot of work needs to be done to find those teachers. The biggest numbers are needed in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. At the moment, UNESCO says there are "massive shortages" of teachers. There are currently 263 million children who do not go to school. Around 25 million of these might never go.
The UN warns there are shortages of teachers in countries with rising populations. This makes it harder to find enough teachers as there are more children. The UN says that without "urgent action" things will get worse. UNESCO is also worried about the quality of teachers. In countries like Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, fewer than 60 per cent of primary school teachers are trained. There are also worries about class sizes. The UN says: "In countries like Malawi, it is common to find over 100 children in classes….This has been a [non-stop] problem for many years."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812656448 COVID 19-Vaccine-nhóm 5 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812656666

Down a dusty farm area in the Casablanca region of Chilean wine country, forestry experts are growing a plantation of saplings of Quillay trees, technically known as Quillaja Saponaria, and its bark holds the promise of strong COVID-19 vaccines.

The trees could be important to natural resources behind a new vaccine for low-end middle-income countries. The bark of the tree is used by the indigenous people to make soap and medicine, and the trees have been used to make a highly successful vaccine against shingles and the world´s first malaria vaccine.

Scientists and industry officials are unsure on how quickly the supply of older trees will be depleted by rising demand. However, nearly everyone agrees that industries relying on Quillay trees will at some point need to switch to plantation grown trees or a lab-grown alternative.

Difficult words: sapling (a young tree), shingles (an infection that causes a painful rash), deplete (to use up the supply or resources of something).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812656666 World's children care most about education nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812656743  global survey has asked 6,204 children in 47 countries around the world about their hopes, dreams and fears. The worldwide "Small Voices, Big Dreams" report is from the children's charity ChildFund. It asked ten- to twelve-year-olds six questions about the world and their future. It discovered that education, food and the environment are their biggest worries. A ChildFund spokesman said: "We're always surprised…to see how much [importance] children…put on education." He added that he was pleased children saw the link between education and a better future: "It shows the depth of maturity of children, who clearly understand the connection between education and changing their worlds for the better."

 
 
The children were asked the question: "If you were president or leader of your country, what would you do to improve the lives of children in your country?" Most said they would focus on education. The children also answered the question "What are you most afraid of?" Over 25 per cent of kids in developing countries said their greatest fear was dangerous animals and insects. The environment was also a big concern for the children. The report says: "Across the world, nearly half of children said they would either plant more trees, build additional green spaces or decrease littering to help improve the planet." Regarding future careers, almost 20 per cent of children want to be a professional athlete when they grow up.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812656743 G1: Company pays its workers to sleep https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812657786 A U.S. company is paying employees to sleep more. Staff at the insurance company Aetna will get $300 a year extra if they sleep at least seven hours a night. They will get just over a dollar for each night they sleep over seven hours. The idea is to improve employee performance. Human resources officials say employees work better if they sleep well. A workforce that is more rested means the company will perform better. Staff can record their sleep automatically using a wrist monitor, or manually record how long they have slept every night.
A number of studies warn that not sleeping enough can affect our ability to do our job. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine said that the average U.S. worker loses 11.3 working days of productivity a year from a lack of sleep. It estimates that the US economy loses $63.2 billion a year because workers do not sleep enough. A 2015 study in Europe found that staff who slept less than seven hours per night did much less work than workers who had eight or more hours of sleep. The staff at Aetna also receive extra pay if they do more exercise.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812657786 Robot Teacher – level 3 NHÓM 4 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812658001 The Brain Initiative project gave robots to four libraries across Australia. One woman at one of the libraries said that the robots are teaching the kids a skill set, critical thinking skills, and how to problem solve.

Ray the Robot is one of those robots, and it can walk, dance, follow instructions, and get kids excited about coding with computers. With the technology industry constantly growing, kids are at an advantage if they learn the basics at a young age, which could then even land some of them into high-tech jobs in the future.

Difficult words: initiative (a plan to solve problems).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812658001 Why do children go to school? (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812659444 What is school for? It's an easy question, but a poll in the USA shows people have different opinions on school. The poll is called the 'Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools'. It is from a worldwide group of teachers called PDK International. PDK asked Americans to name the biggest purpose of school. Just 45 per cent of people said the main goal was to prepare students to pass exams. Around a quarter of people said it was to get kids ready to find a job. Just over 26 per cent of Americans said the biggest reason for school was to teach children about citizenship.
Joshua Starr, CEO of PDK, said the poll questioned whether schools were doing the right thing and if they were, "what the public wants". He quoted from author James Baldwin, who said in 1963 that the purpose of school is "to ask questions of the universe and learn to live with those questions." Students had different ideas about school. Elena Brankov, 15, said it was to teach children to be creative, to share ideas and to use technology to make the world a better place. Lyndon Bailey, also 15, said school, "is just to make poor kids into robots who work and make rich people richer".
]]> 2021-10-13 02:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812659444 Business with oxygen – Nhóm 5 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812659465 https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/business-with-oxygen-level-2/
India reported more than 414,000 new COVID cases per day last week. Nearly 4,000 people died from COVID-19 every day.

Four men wanted to take advantage of the serious situation, and they started to make a business with oxygen. They started to store oxygen cylinders secretly in a restaurant and bar in Lodhi Colony. They sold the cylinders online at very high prices. They used fire extinguishing cylinders which were red, and they painted them black because black was the color for oxygen.

Police arrested the men, and they seized 419 oxygen concentrators. A similar thing happened in another part of the country where police arrested three men.

Difficult words: take advantage (to make good use of something, usually in an unfair way), cylinder (a metal tank where people keep gas or liquid), fire extinguishing cylinder (a metal tank which has water or chemicals inside, and firemen use it to stop fires).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812659465 Scientists want to bring mammoths back to life (16th September, 2021) nhóm 3 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812660353 Scientists want to bring back the woolly mammoth - an ancestor of the elephant. It became extinct 4,000 years ago. The idea to bring it back to life is like something from the movie Jurassic Park. Scientists will use the DNA from mammoth bones to clone the giant animal. It would be the first time since the Ice Age for a mammoth to walk on the earth. The lead scientist is a geneticist from Harvard. He is an expert in editing DNA and genes. Ben Lamm, a businessman working on the project, said: "Our goal is to have our first calves in the next four to six years."

Mr Lamm created a technology and software company and gave $15 million for this research. He said he has big plans to bring the mammoth back to life and to return it to its Arctic home. He also wants to revive other species. Mr Lamm believes the research will result in new ideas that will improve biotechnology and health care. Lamm said the project was like the Apollo missions to the moon. They led to the development of everyday products like freeze-dried food, and of technology such as GPS. Mr Lamm believes research into genes will also improve our lives.]]> 2021-10-13 02:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812660353 Healthcare workers and COVID-19 vaccine (Nhóm 8) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812661305 New York hospitals began firing or suspending healthcare workers for defying a state order to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

As a result, staff shortages led some hospitals to stop certain surgeries or curtail services, as around 15% of the state´s healthcare workers are not fully vaccinated. New York´s state health department gave an order last month mandating that all healthcare workers receive at least their first COVID-19 shot by September 27. The vaccination push comes as the US President Joe Biden pressured unvaccinated Americans, and some of them do not want the vaccine because of religious or health reasons.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city hospitals have not yet seen a major impact of the mandate, adding that he worried more about other areas of the state where the vaccination rates were lower. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said that she was considering employing National Guard to fill the need for healthcare work.

]]> 2021-10-13 02:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812661305 Supermarkets go green – level 3 Nhóm2 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812661920 The pressure is on for supermarkets to improve their environmental credentials. However, customers and investors are often reluctant to accept higher prices or lower income as a trade-off.

According to the CEO of Britain´s biggest retailer Tesco, the industry is facing challenges as the company is shifting to net zero emissions. Ken Murphy said there was a small amount of very committed customers who were willing to pay more; however, the majority of people weren´t.

Customers expect companies to find ways to innovate and to make sustainable products affordable. On the other hand, investors insist that supermarkets increasingly focus on environmental goals; however, they don´t want a lower income on their investment as a result.

102-year-old Tesco has planned to hit a net zero carbon target by 2035 by using renewable energy, cutting plastic, and encouraging more sustainable diets. The company turned to vertical strawberry farming to cut water use, and it introduced unwashed potatoes that have a longer shelf life.

Difficult words: the pressure is on (when people expect you to do something), credential (an achievement), trade-off (a balancing of facts that are good and bad), consequence (a result or effect).
]]> 2021-10-13 02:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812661920 Money can buy happiness (Nhóm 6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812662792 The English pop group the Beatles told us that money can't buy us love. Many people believe that money cannot buy happiness and that it is the root of all evil. However, a new study from Cambridge University says that money can buy happiness. Researchers did a study that compared the spending habits of customers of a bank with their personality. They compared the personalities of 625 people with a list of what the people spent their money on. The conclusion of the study was that buying the right things can lead to happiness.
The researchers said the study may change the way people think about money and happiness. They said: "Spending can increase our happiness when it is spent on goods and services that fit our personalities". Internet companies could use information about people's happiness to recommend things that increase happiness. Spending money could be more important in our lives than we thought. The researchers said: "Spending money on products that help us express who we are could…be as important to our well-being as finding the right job…or even the right friends."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812662792 Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812662952 Sleep deprivation is a global issue in all the major cities around the world where the amount of sleep decreasing over decades. Now, the decrease is growing with the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stress plays a major role in how we sleep. People are meant to have some kind of routines, and many people lost them during the pandemic and especially during lockdowns. People woke up and went to sleep at odd times, they ate at odd times, and all of that definitely affected their biological rhythms.

Sleep is essential to health, along with nutrition and good exercise. Good quality and good quantity sleep keeps us healthy, and the lack of sleep adds to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and mood disorders. It also affects our higher thinking functions such as problem solving, planning, decision making, risk-taking and, controlling our impulses. People tend to think that they have to sleep less so that they can work more.

Difficult words: sleep deprivation (not getting enough sleep over a long period of time), onslaught (a sudden attack), biological rhythm (when your body tells you it is time to do something like eat or sleep).

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]]> 2021-10-13 02:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812662952 N9 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812663487 Workers in Pegomas, France, are harvesting jasmine flowers, the key ingredient in Chanel´s iconic No. 5 perfume that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

France´s Grasse region became a flower and fragrance hub in the 17th century. Chanel struck a deal with a local farming family in the 1980s to keep its flower production in the region.

At that time, some local farmers had sold their land, and jasmine production moved to other countries. Olivier Polge, the head perfumer of Chanel, said that the company had to work hard to get enough of the ingredient at the same time it was under threat due to real estate pressure and the evolution of society in general. When Chanel joined with the local farming family the Muls, the quantity and continuation of quality of the jasmine flower continued.

Chanel No. 5 was the first perfume launched by French couturier Gabrielle ´Coco´ Chanel in 1921, and the scent formula for the fragrance was created by French-Russian chemist and perfumer Ernest Beaux.

Difficult words: hub (the center of an activity), couturier (a fashion designer), scent formula (all the ingredients that blend together to form a fragrance).]]> 2021-10-13 02:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812663487 Train from China to England - nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812663599 A train arrived in the UK from China after completing its 18-day trip. It became the first direct train from the Asian country to England. It carried 34 containers packed with clothing and other goods.

The train travelled an amazing 7456 miles and passed through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium and France, before it finally entered the UK.

It is hoped that the China railway train will become a cost-efficient and time-saving way of transporting goods between China and the UK. The train is cheaper than travelling by air and faster than travelling by sea. It is expected that the trains will run weekly to keep up with the demand.

An eager crowd was waiting to welcome this first, but definitely not last, train of its kind.

Difficult words: cost-efficient (made with low costs), eager (very interested).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812663599 Americans are buying more guns (Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812663932 In America, the perceived threat of ISIS has prompted many to reach for their guns. Firearms sales have gone through the roof. A hundred and eighty-five thousand rifles were bought in the States on Black Friday alone this year, and the figures have sparked sharply since the San Bernardino shootings.

“So how am I supposed to reassure people? All right, I can’t reassure them that the mentally ill aren’t going to do it, I can’t reassure them that the ideologically motivated by other ideological concerns won’t do it, I sure as heck can’t say to them that I can guarantee we can keep AK-47s out of the hands of, you know, ISIS wannabes… Can’t do it!”

Too many people have lost faith in the authority’s ability to protect them behind the Donald Trump line that their country is just not safe anymore.

“We can have this beautiful parade like this and it can happen here…”

“I totally feel that people are nuts, especially in any kind of big thing like this where anything like that can happen, especially with these automatic terrible semi-automatic weapons… It’s is just awful.”

America knows all about mass shootings but this one carried out by Jihadists has been viewed differently. Terrorist targets to train your sights on. When threatened, these people believe attack is the best form of defence.

Difficult words: perceive (to become aware of something), threat (a danger), prompt (to make), go through the roof (to reach extreme heights), rifle (a long gun), figure (a number), spark (to start to go up), reassure (to make someone feel better), ideological (following an idea), wannabe (a person who wants to be like somebody), semi- (partly).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812663932 G1: Smoking can damage the eyes. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812664389 Scientists are warning that people who smoke are in danger of damaging their eyes. The scientists say smokers are two times more likely to lose their vision than non-smokers. Everyone knows that smoking can damage the lungs and heart, but not many people know it could damage the eyesight. The scientists are from the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in the United Kingdom. The AOP has started a campaign to raise awareness of the danger of smoking to the eyes. The campaign is called "Stub it out". The word "stub" means put out a cigarette by pushing the end against something hard; "stub it out" is saying, "stop smoking". The AOP said only one in five people thinks smoking can damage the eyes.
The AOP explained why smoking is so harmful to the eyes. Cigarette smoke gets in the eyes and causes or worsens a number of different eye problems. Cigarette smoke contains toxic chemicals that can irritate and damage the eyes. Smoke contains tiny pieces of metals like lead and copper. These can get into the eyes and lead to cataracts - a condition that causes the eye lens to become cloudy. People with cataracts usually need an operation to restore their sight. Smoke can also increase the chance of worsening sight problems for people with diabetes. The AOP said smokers are also three times more likely to damage the eyes' muscles. The AOP has encouraged smokers to quit.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812664389 Spa for Cats and Dogs (N4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812664632 Services provided at a beauty centre for cats and dogs in Russia are similar to those that you get at health spas for humans.

Owners bring their pets to the centre to spoil them with a massage or to get them in shape by doing doggy aqua aerobics, walking on a treadmill, or fit ball exercises with a personal coach.

A dog owner explained that if you get a dog, you have to care for it, keep it in shape, bathe it, and feed it properly. This has become much easier with the help of the beauty centre.

Groomers say that the most popular items are haircuts, fur masks and pedicures. The whole set costs around 20 US dollars, which is the amount that will also buy you an hour with a personal trainer.

Difficult words: fur (an animal’s short hair), groomer (a person who brushes and cleans an animal’s fur).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812664632 G1: The same charger for all smartphones https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812666308 The EU wants to pass a new law which will make the charging port the same for smartphones, tablets, cameras, headphones, and other devices. It means that there should be only one type of charger for all these devices.

Different devices use different connectors, and they do not always come with the device. Just in the EU, people spend more than 2.4 billion euros on chargers every year. If more devices used the same connectors, it would save money and lower waste.

The new law would cause problems for companies like Apple, who uses its own special charger. An Apple spokesperson said that such a law will be bad for creating new products.

Difficult words: device (an electrical equipment or machine), connector (a thing which joins two or more things together), waste (a material or thing which people no longer need, and they throw it away).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812666308 COVID-19 vaccination in the EU (Nhóm2) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812666382 COVID-19 vaccination in the EU

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that 70% of adults in the EU were fully vaccinated against COVID-19. She was very happy because the EU expected to reach this number later this year.

More than 250 million people received both jabs of a COVID-19 vaccine, but if we include children and teenagers to 55% of people. Von der Leyen said that the pandemic is not finished yet, and it was necessary to vaccinate even more people. It was important to protect people from the coronavirus, and to stop new variants of the coronavirus.

The EU gives vaccines to other countries, too, because it says that people from all over the world have the right to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Difficult words: jab (when a doctor puts a needle through somebody´s skin), necessary (something what a person needs to do), variant (a new form of something).]]> 2021-10-13 02:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812666382 Easy speaking in English（nhóm 9） https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812666889 Hello students,

We have a website for you. Its name is www.speakinlevels.com. You can use filters to search for people at your level and speak via Skype with them. You can also search for people by country or gender (men or women).

You can also use a form to write to people, and you will be informed when people are ready to talk with you. Are you afraid to talk with somebody who you don’t know? Don’t worry! There are tips and topics which can help you start talking.

Have fun and speak with your new friends! We hope that you will improve your English!

]]> 2021-10-13 02:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812666889 Pizza in Prison – nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812667718 A chef from Chicago runs a programme called ‘Recipe for Change’. He helps prisoners in a prison make pizzas.

The chef thinks that it is all people’s responsibility to do something for others or to save other people’s lives. One pizza costs $7 and people make around 200 pizzas a week.

The plan now is to sell the pizzas from a food truck outside the prison.

Difficult words: chef (a professional cook), recipe (a text which tells you how to cook something), responsibility (something that you should do).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812667718 ^^ https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812667800 2021-10-13 02:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812667800 Ice Library in Russia – level 3 Nhóm 4 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812668295 The world’s first-ever ice library is based in Russia. It is made from blocks of ice. It is no ordinary library. People from across the globe have written their hopes and dreams online and people have cut these into the ice.

The organizer says that the ice library is an interesting idea to understand how dreams can be gathered from all over the world. The ice contains more than 1,000 short phrases in different languages, forming a labyrinth.

One of the visitors says that he hopes that everyone in the world will always have good health.  Although not all dreams come true, there are some that do, and this library could be home to some of those hopes and dreams.

Difficult words: ordinary (usual), gather (collect, put together), labyrinth (a large, complex maze).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812668295 Banana in danger of becoming extinctx (Nhóm 6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812669022 There is bad news for banana lovers. The most common banana in the world is in danger of becoming extinct. It is called the Cavendish banana and people eat it all over the world. A fungus called Tropical Race 4 (TP4) is killing millions of banana plants. The fungus blocks small tubes that absorb water inside the plant. This means the plant cannot get the water it needs and so it dies. Scientists first discovered TP4 in Malaysia in 1990. It quickly spread to other parts of South-East Asia and then to Australia and Africa. TP4 is spread in dirt that is carried by the wind, water, cars and even people's boots. A tiny amount of TP4 can spread across large areas very quickly. Some scientists believe TP4 could kill the banana industry.
This is not the first time that a variety of banana has become extinct. Before we started eating the Cavendish banana, we ate a variety called the Gros Michel. Fifty years ago, the Gros Michel banana was the main banana grown around the world. However, it was hit by a fungus called Panama Disease. The Gros Michel banana became extinct in 1965 and banana growers switched to the Cavendish banana. The problem for the banana industry is that even if they burn all their banana plants, the fungus stays in the soil. This means new plants cannot be grown. Scientists say one option is genetically modified (GM) bananas that are resistant to diseases like TP4 and Panama Disease.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812669022 Fake Facebook Accounts(N4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812670209 Facebook deleted three networks of accounts in Russia, Iran, Vietnam, and Myanmar. These networks were not connected. Facebook said that they wanted to manipulate people and that they gave false information.

The biggest campaign was in Russia. Individual people acted as local people, and they posted false information about local and political news. They focused mostly on Ukraine. Facebook investigated the identities of these people and found out that these people had links to the Russian military.

The campaign in Iran was smaller; however, the idea was similar. Individual people posted false information about the US. In Myanmar and Vietnam, people created false groups, and they criticized some companies.

Difficult words: manipulate (to control a person or a situation cleverly and often unfairly), campaign (business or political activities that have a specific goal), identity (who a person is).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812670209 Black Friday brings out bargain hunters (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812670681 A busy shopping day has brought out millions of bargain hunters across the world. The day is called Black Friday. Stores give discounts of up to 70 per cent on thousands of things. It is a big shopping day in the USA. Four years ago, it went to Britain. It is now huge in the UK. On Friday, British police were called to four supermarkets just after midnight (the sales started at one minute past midnight). Police were worried that shoppers would get crushed in the crowds. Officers worked with store staff to make sure that sale-goers could enter and exit the stores safely.
Shoppers in the UK were happy go shopping, but store employees in the USA were angry. Many stores started Black Friday a day early, on the US celebration of Thanksgiving. Store workers and shoppers thought it was wrong to work on Thanksgiving. This is usually a time for people to spend with family. A 'Boycott Black Thursday' Facebook page has 114,000 likes. Many big stores did not open. CNN said there are over 60 petitions on the website Change.org. They want to change Black Friday. They think family is more important than profits.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812670681 G1: Dogs help stop the coronavirus https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812671498 French scientists found out that dogs could detect the coronavirus.

It seems that dogs can sniff COVID-19 in people´s sweat. Dogs could sniff COVID-19 in 97% of people who were COVID-19 positive, and in 91% of people who were COVID-19 negative. It means that they were more successful than some tests. The usual 15-minute tests, which people can do at home, can tell if somebody is healthy, but they are not so good at detecting the coronavirus.

The results mean that people could use dogs in airports, train stations, or other crowded places. It could be much faster than testing people and it would also cost less money.

Difficult words: detect (to find out that something exists), sniff (to use the nose to smell something), sweat (the salty liquid which comes out through the skin when somebody is hot, ill, or during exercise).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812671498 G1: Alcohol-free bars https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812672433 Many people are starting to enjoy their time with family or friends without drinking alcohol, and people are opening alcohol-free bars.

You would think that more people drank alcohol during the coronavirus pandemic, but it was not true. Last year, sales of alcohol-free spirits grew almost 30%, and sales of spirits fell about 7%. There are challenges like Dry January when people do not drink alcoholic drinks for the whole month. Many people care more about their health, and they stop drinking alcohol or they drink it less.

Alcohol can have a bad impact on both mental and physical health. Besides the hangover, some people can feel upset even two or three days after they drink alcohol. When people stop drinking alcohol, they feel much better, they save money, and they have better relationships.

Difficult words: spirit (a strong alcoholic drink such as vodka, gin, or whiskey), challenge (a difficult task or fight in which people can take part, and they can see how mentally or physically strong they are), hangover (a headache or other unpleasant feeling after drinking too much alcohol).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812672433 Real Diamond for £10 - nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812672866 People bought a white diamond at a car boot sale in England back in the 1980s. They thought that it was just costume jewellery because they bought it just for £10.

However, they had the 26.27 carats (5.3 grams) stone valued recently. They found out that it was a real diamond, and that it is going on sale for around £350,000. The owners say that they are extremely excited.

Difficult words: car boot sale (an outdoor sale where people sell things they do not want any more), costume jewellery (jewellery made from cheap materials), value (to look at something and say how much it is).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812672866 Pet dogs (Nhóm 6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812673053 Research says having a pet dog helps to reduce children's stress. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that petting a dog is a great way to help stressed kids. Researchers looked at 643 young children over an 18-month period. They found that children who have a pet dog are less stressed than children without a dog. Just twelve per cent of children with pets had signs of stress. This compares with 21 per cent of children with no dog. This will not surprise parents of children who have a dog. They know dogs are great for helping children to develop.
There are many things about the research that are still unclear. Researchers do not know if less anxious children have pet dogs, or if pet dogs make children less anxious. The research just showed a link between pet dogs and children's stress. Pet dogs help children start conversations. This is often difficult for children and can cause them stress. A pet dog can be a source of comfort for children. The dog can also be a friend to a small child, who tells the pet all his or her secrets and stories. Sometimes a pet dog is so important that its name can be the first word the child speaks.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812673053 Dangerous dentist ( Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812673273 This is the dentist French media are calling “the butcher” arriving at a court in central France earlier this week.

Fifty-one-year-old Jacobus Marinus van Nierop is accused of mutilating over a hundred patients, before fleeing to Canada where he was arrested in 2014. Many of the dentist’s former patients were present for the beginning of the trial and shared horror stories about their alleged experiences.

One woman told a French newspaper that she went to van Nierop to have braces fitted, but left having had eight of her teeth painfully pulled from her mouth. She says she bled for three days. Another claimed she had her teeth filed down, when she was expecting to have them cleaned.

A lawyer for van Nierop was quoted in January as saying the dentist recognized that he did not do good work, but said he was not the horrible person some people had described. She said his flight to Canada was part of a plan to take his own life, adding, that he was in poor health.

If found guilty of mutilation and charges of defrauding French social security, van Nierop could face 10 years in prison and a fine of 375,000 euro.

Difficult words: accuse (to say that somebody is guilty of a crime), mutilate (to damage, to hurt), flee (to run away), former (-ex), trial (when somebody is in court), alleged (something people say, but we don’t know it for sure), braces (wires in the mouth which straighten the teeth), claim (to say), file down (to reduce the size with a file – a tool), flight (an escape), guilty (responsible for a crime), defraud (to cheat), fine (the money you must pay for doing something bad).


]]> 2021-10-13 02:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812673273 School children go on strike for climate (Nhóm 8) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812675065 Children around the world are going on strike. They are unhappy because their countries are doing too little to fight climate change. There is a growing international movement called School Strike for Climate. Instead of going to school, students have been skipping classes to take part in street protests. Many protests are outside government buildings. The movement began in August 2018 when Swedish student Greta Thunberg stood outside Sweden's government. She held a sign that read: "School strike for climate". Photos of her went viral on social media. Students worldwide are now copying her.
In 2019, strikes have taken place across Europe, North America and Australia. Students held banners reading, "Why learn without a future?" "If you do not act as adults, we will" and "Like the sea level, we rise." A worldwide strike is planned for March 15. Many scientists, politicians and teachers congratulated the students. However, not everyone supports them. Australia's leader called for "more learning in schools and less activism". A U.K. journalist wrote: "If children really must wag their fingers at older generations for some imaginary sin, I wish they'd do it at the weekend."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812675065 Facebook apologizes after data breach nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812675140 acebook boss Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the data breach that was revealed last week. Mr Zuckerberg took out full-page advertisements in broadsheet newspapers in the UK and US to make his apology for the data privacy scandal. Zuckerberg was being criticized for being too slow to respond to the news. Personal data on up to 50 million users was used by a U.S. political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica. This company is accused of using the leaked data to benefit Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Zuckerberg said: "This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry....We're now taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again." The apology made no mention of Cambridge Analytica.
Mr Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook could and should have done more to protect user data and to stop it being exploited. Reports are now circulating that Facebook was warned its data protection was too weak back in 2011. Mr Zuckerberg outlined the actions Facebook would take going forward. He said: "We're investigating every single app that had access to large amounts of data before we fixed this. We expect there are others. And when we find them, we will ban them and tell everyone affected." The value of Facebook has fallen by $75 billion this week; Zuckerberg's wealth fell by $10 billion. There has also been a surge in users abandoning their Facebook pages, in online calls to #deletefacebook.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812675140 Prison Beauty Pageant - nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812675750 Last week’s Friday was a special day at Rio de Janeiro’s maximum-security prison for women, as it hosted its annual beauty pageant for its inmates.

The prison selected ten inmates to style their hair, don dresses and swap their cells for a catwalk. One prisoner said that even though she was imprisoned, she did feel like it for a moment.

The participants of the event were judged not only on their beauty but also their sympathy and attitude. A crowd of 440 inmates, as well as their relatives, cheered them on. Apart from the prison’s pageant title, the winner also received a fan and a hair straightener.

The event’s aim is to improve the inmates’ self-esteem and give them a chance to meet with their loved ones.

Difficult words: annual (happening every year), beauty pageant (an event when people try to look their best and others look and judge them), inmate (prisoner), don (put on), attitude (the way you act and what you think), self-esteem (self-respect).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812675750 Mercedes makes mind-control car （nhom9） https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812677147 Cars are becoming more and more technologically advanced. In the past decade, we have seen improvements in electric car technology and driverless cars. The latest advance comes from Mercedes-Benz. The luxury carmaker has unveiled a car that lets you use your mind to control certain things. The car giant unveiled its futuristic car at the IAA Mobility show in Munich earlier this week. The car is called Vision AVTR. The four capitalized letters at the end of its name are to make people think of the movie Avatar. This movie was about using the brain to connect with nature. A Mercedes spokesperson said the car would not be available for purchase any time soon. It is currently in the concept stage of production.

Mercedes is using a technology called brain-computer interface (BCI) in the Vision AVTR. The car's computers "read" brain signals and translate them into actions. Mercedes says the system needs about a minute to get to understand a new driver's thought processes. The driver will then be able to perform certain functions in the car using just their thoughts. Mercedes spokeswoman Britta Seeger spoke about how exciting she thought the futuristic car was. She said: "Mercedes-Benz is setting another milestone in the merging of man and machine." The Mercedes website says: "As soon as you get in, the car becomes an extension of your own body and a tool to discover the environment."]]> 2021-10-13 02:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812677147 nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812677482 Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo after she accused team officials of trying to force her to leave the Tokyo Games early.

It happened a day after she refused her team´s order to board a flight home from the Olympic Games.

The athlete urged sports authorities to take action against her head coach who, according to her, stopped her from competing further in the Games. The standoff began after Tsimanouskaya criticizded how officials were managing her team, and she set off a massive backlash in state-run media back home.

The runner said on her Instagram account that she was put in the 4x400m relay even though she´d never raced in the event. She was then barred from competing in the 200 meters.

Tsimanouskaya said that the hoped to continue her career; however, safety remained her priority. She wants sports authorities to investigate who gave the order and who made the decision that she couldn´t compete anymore.

Difficult words: refuge (protection or shelter from danger or trouble), standoff (a situation in which neither side wins a competition or argument), backlash (a strong negative reaction by a large number of people).

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]]> 2021-10-13 02:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812677482 G1: A new diabetes test https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812678194 Australian scientists developed a new diabetes test that finds glucose in saliva. They believed that it was very exciting, and it was something that people hoped to make for a long time.

Scientists put an enzyme into a strip, and this enzyme turns glucose into a signal. A special device can read the signal, and it shows the level of glucose in the body. Scientists said that this test would change the way of making medical tests.

It is very easy and cheap to make the test because people can print it. There is no electronic device in it, and it contains only ink. The test is non-invasive, which means that it is not painful.

Difficult words: glucose (blood sugar), saliva (the water in the mouth which helps you chew and eat), enzyme (a substance which helps the body work faster).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812678194 People get tattoos in Thailand (Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812678771 Tens of thousands of people came to get tattoos in a Buddhist temple just west of Bangkok. Buddhist monks drew the tattoos and many people believe that the tattoos possess mystical powers.

One man said that the tattoo is the reason why he survived a car crash and why his job is going well. Outside the temple, some people acted like the animals in their tattoos.

However, the powers of the tattoo only work if you obey the five rules of Buddhism. For example, you must not steal, take a life, drink alcohol or take drugs. If you make a mistake, you can always come back to the temple next year to try again.

Difficult words: temple (a building for praying to a god or gods), monk (a man who only lives for a god or gods), obey (if you obey rules, you do not break them).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812678771 Cartoon Characters (Nhóm 6) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812678865 Candy makers in the UK may have to stop putting cartoon characters on their sweets. Health groups said food companies use characters from Peppa Pig and Disney on wrappers. The companies do this to get children to buy chocolate and candies. The health groups said 51 per cent of products using cartoon characters were bad for children. The products fell below the requirements needed to advertise on children's TV shows. They were very high in fat, sugar and salt. The groups want the government to ban the use of these characters to sell unhealthy sweets to children.
The groups trying to get the ban are Action on Sugar, Action on Salt and the Children's Food Campaign. They looked at the nutrition in 526 products. The wrapping had colourful cartoon characters to attract children. The Peppa Pig Candy Bites were among the worst products. These were 99 per cent sugar. A nutritionist from the Action on Sugar group, said: "It's shocking that companies are exploiting the health of our children by using cartoon characters on their high-sugar food and drink products, particularly on chocolates and sweets, which are already hard to resist for children."
]]> 2021-10-13 02:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812678865 The most expensive fries in the world (nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812679238 A famous restaurant in New York, US, serves the most expensive fries in the world. The restaurant did it to celebrate National French Fry Day.

The chef makes the dish with high-quality potatoes. He boils them in French champagne for a short time. Then, he fries them in French goose fat. The chef seasons the fries with truffle salt, and he uses truffle oil, too.

He serves the fries on a crystal plate. Then, he puts truffle cheese on the top, and he sprinkles the dish with edible gold dust.

The fries cost 200 dollars and the restaurant is fully booked for the next two months. The same restaurant also made the most expensive milkshake, most expensive sandwich, and most expensive dessert.

Difficult words: season (to add salt, pepper, herbs, or other spices to food), truffle (a very expensive mushroom which grows in many places such as France, and dogs or pigs help find it underground), sprinkle (to put very small pieces of something on something else), edible (something which you can eat).

]]> 2021-10-13 02:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812679238 Dogs wear body armour to stop eagle attacks nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812680151 Dog owners in Alaska and Canada are buying special vests for their pets. The vests are to protect the pets from attacks by bald eagles. In recent weeks, a number of pet dogs have been taken away by the birds of prey. The number of bald eagles has risen greatly in Alaska. There have been many conservation efforts, which has seen the bald eagle population increase. Conservationists estimate there are now around 30,000 of the eagles in Alaska. While bird lovers are happy about this, pet owners are worried. The eagles have a 2.4-metre wingspan. They are strong enough to pick up and fly away with a 6-kilogram animal. The eagles are already a nuisance for farmers as they are killing chickens.
The special vest that pet owners are buying is called the CoyoteVest. It is a protective jacket that was designed to protect small dogs from coyotes. A coyote is a wild dog that is similar to a wolf. It is common across North America. The CoyoteVest has a variety of spikes and other sharp things on it to protect the pet. Some of the vests have brightly coloured whiskers that are meant to scare birds away. It is made of a material called Kevlar, which is used in bulletproof vests. The Kevlar protects a small dog from the teeth of a larger dog. The CoyoteVest company said its vest helps to, "slow down or prevent a surprise attack and give you enough time to react before serious injury occurs" to a pet.
]]> 2021-10-13 02:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812680151 G1: Foie gras from a lab https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812682514 Foie gras is a fatty duck or goose liver, and for many people, it is a delicacy. It is a part of French tradition, and people cannot imagine any holidays without foie gras.

Now more and more people are concerned about the way how farmers make foie gras. Farmers feed ducks and geese several times every day and they use metal tubes. It is a very cruel and painful method, and many people decided not to eat foie gras because of this. Some countries even stopped making or sellling it.

A French startup now makes foie gras in a lab. The company uses duck stem cells to grow the foie gras. Some people say that foie gras from a lab tastes the same as real foie gras. More than 70 startups in the world are making meat or other animal products in a lab. It is more friendly to the natural world and animals do not need to suffer.

Difficult words: delicacy (something pleasing to eat what people consider special), startup (a company which is just beginning to make a business), stem cell (the smallest part of the body which can develop into many other different parts).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812682514 Educators recommend more outdoor learning (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812682686 Researchers say children should be doing more learning outdoors. The researchers say children spend too much time sitting in classrooms to pass exams. They say outdoor learning is important for social skills, health and development. It also increases their quality of life. There have been five important reports that stress the need for students to learn outdoors and experience nature. The researchers say that schools are not taking the advice of these reports. Outdoor learning is on the decline. The researchers want to put outdoor learning on the curriculum of all schools.
The researchers say there are many benefits of outdoor learning for children. One advantage is that it builds confidence in children. They experience things that were normal for their parents, like climbing trees. It also makes children more aware of the environment and teaches them to respect nature. There are also health benefits. Children exercise more instead of sitting in classrooms or being at home with video games. Another benefit is that it helps with the problem of 'stranger danger'. Many children in the UK today grow up hearing about this.
]]> 2021-10-13 03:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812682686 Facts about Putin -nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812682722 Vladimir Putin is going to be the Russian president again for a fourth term. Here are five unexpected facts about him. First, he has a personality cult, and you can find his face on many things in everyday life. Second, he has two famous friends from Hollywood – Steven Seagal and Mickey Rourke.

Third, Putin loves the great outdoors and doing things outside—despite cold weather, he does not wear a lot of clothing in his pictures! Fourth, people remember his surprising words when he said that extremists could come to Moscow to have their penises completely removed. Lastly, he likes to participate in sports like hockey and karate.

Difficult words: personality cult (when people really respect a famous person such as a political leader), the great outdoors (a name for nature), extremist (a person with very strong views).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812682722 N9 young people buy clothes online https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812682891 Depop is a shopping app made for and by Gen Z, and it is taking the sustainable shopping world by storm, boasting more than 30 million users across 150 countries.

Depop is an online hub where people buy and sell used clothing, vintage shoes, and accessories, and the hub is disrupting the global retail industry.

Depop is powered by young influencers like 20-year-old Moira Campos who is one of Depop´s top sellers. She has about 40,000 followers, and selling clothes online has become a full-time job for her. She works with her brother to find, shoot, and sell dozens of items on the app every week.

According to analysts, Depop could be a real threat to traditional retailers because the younger generation and influencers like to create one-of-a-kind outfits at a great price. However, there are questions about ethics, too. Some young sellers buy clothing in bulk, and then they sell them on the online store for twice the price. As more teens turn to the app, some people fear that sustainability might lose out to profitability.

Difficult words: hub (the most important place where a particular activity takes place), vintage (clothing, jewelry or other things that aren´t new but still valued because of the quality or good condition), ethics (when people think something is good or bad), bulk (many items of the same thing).]]> 2021-10-13 03:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812682891 Running (N4) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812683301 We all know that running a few kilometres each day is good for our health, right? Well, what we didn't know, until now, is that running too much could be bad for us. New research suggests that running long distances regularly for many years could shorten our life instead of extending it. The study is from the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. Researcher Dr James O'Keefe said too much running can cause plaque to build up inside your heart. This can lead to heart disease. He wrote: "Years of extreme exercise…appears to erase some benefits you get from moderate exercise, so that your risk of heart disease, of dying of coronary disease, is the same as [an inactive] person."
The researchers looked at the health and training of 3,300 runners over the age of 35. Seventy per cent of them ran more than 30 kilometres a week. The study found that men who were marathon runners for 25 years had 62 per cent more plaque in their heart than men of the same age who did little or no exercise. Another doctor and long-time runner, John Hagan, said he feels cheated. He has been running marathons and doing triathlons since 1967. He used to run up to 60 kilometres per week. He said: "As a physician and a runner, I felt betrayed. I thought I was out there exhausting myself, building an absolutely indestructible heart." Dr Hagan advised people to exercise regularly but not to overdo things.
]]> 2021-10-13 03:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812683301 Children’s bad teeth ( Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812684554 A dentist in the UK had to take out all of the baby teeth from a two-year-old child because the teeth were rotten. Unfortunately, that child is not the only one with such problems.

It is a whole generation of children in the UK. In one year, dentists had to remove teeth from as many as 14,000 children aged 5 and under. This cost the National Health Service a lot of money and removing baby teeth leads to more problems later in a child’s life.

The reason for the children’s rotten teeth is unhealthy food. The children are eating too much processed food and drinking fizzy drinks with a lot of sugar in them.

Doctors say that the parents need more information, so they know not what to give their children.

Difficult words: rotten (bad), processed food (food made in the factory, not fresh food), fizzy (with bubbles of gas).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812684554 Scientists Make Meat (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812684557  laboratory in the Netherlands can grow meat. Currently, a little piece of meat costs around $12,500, but the price will come down.

One professor said that the laboratory has an investor, and you could buy this meat in around three years. It will still be expensive, at around 12–14 dollars for a hamburger, but the price will continue to drop. In seven years from now, you will be able to buy it in a supermarket.

The production of the meat will be cheaper than keeping cows, but it is important that people like the meat.

Difficult words: continue (if something continues, it does not stop), drop (go down).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812684557 Mercedes makes mind-control car nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812685093 Cars are becoming more and more technologically advanced. In the past decade, we have seen improvements in electric car technology and driverless cars. The latest advance comes from Mercedes-Benz. The luxury carmaker has unveiled a car that lets you use your mind to control certain things. The car giant unveiled its futuristic car at the IAA Mobility show in Munich earlier this week. The car is called Vision AVTR. The four capitalized letters at the end of its name are to make people think of the movie Avatar. This movie was about using the brain to connect with nature. A Mercedes spokesperson said the car would not be available for purchase any time soon. It is currently in the concept stage of production.

Mercedes is using a technology called brain-computer interface (BCI) in the Vision AVTR. The car's computers "read" brain signals and translate them into actions. Mercedes says the system needs about a minute to get to understand a new driver's thought processes. The driver will then be able to perform certain functions in the car using just their thoughts. Mercedes spokeswoman Britta Seeger spoke about how exciting she thought the futuristic car was. She said: "Mercedes-Benz is setting another milestone in the merging of man and machine." The Mercedes website says: "As soon as you get in, the car becomes an extension of your own body and a tool to discover the environment."]]> 2021-10-13 03:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812685093 G1: Vaccine Cake https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812685642 Last year, a café in Prague, the Czech Republic, became very popular when it made a cake which looked like the coronavirus. Now, the Black Madonna café offers a new cake which looks like the coronavirus vaccine.

The cake has red crosses on the sides and a small vaccine capsule on the top. Inside, there is a sponge base with banana mousse and strawberry-banana filling. Inside the capsule, there is strawberry alcohol.

Customers love the idea and the cake is becoming quickly popular, too. Some people joked online that the café could make a cake which looked like a coffin, which was a traditional Czech dessert. The café wanted to make people happy and remind them that vaccination was a good thing.

Difficult words: capsule (a small case with something inside it), sponge (a light and soft substance with lots of very little holes in it), mousse (a type of dessert similar to a pudding), coffin (a wooden or metal box where people put someone who died).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812685642 G1: Facebook stops Trump’s account. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812685811 Facebook stopped Donald Trump’s account for two years because he broke Facebook’s rules.

Trump said that the decision was an insult to those who voted for him in 2020. Trump also said that Facebook shouldn’t be allowed to do such things. Facebook said that Trump’s account will reopen if Trumps behaves well on social media.

The two-year ban means that Trump will be able to use his Facebook and Instagram accounts before the next presidential election in 2024.

Difficult words: insult (to say or write information which hurts people), allowed (when you are allowed to do something, you can do it), ban (a situation when you can’t do something), election (the process of choosing a leader by voting).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812685811 Work on Big Ben - Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812686489 Big Ben is the UK’s most iconic symbol. Since 2017, the Elizabeth Tower and the distinctive sound of Big Ben (the bell inside) have been undergoing renovation.

The structure is 160 years old and has needed maintenance work throughout its lifetime. For many years, people always painted the hands and numbers of the clock black, but last Thursday, the workers revealed the clock’s original colour of Prussian blue. The new surfaces are made from stones, silver, gold and glass.

The renovation work, which will continue until 2021, will also redo the roof and see that the stone inside is protected from water. The work is far from finished, but this week gave people an idea of what the tower will look like when all is finished.

Difficult words: distinctive (typical), renovation (the work to make something old work well again), maintenance work (work to keep something working well).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812686489 Women have to pay more in shops (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812686657 Women have to pay more than men for almost the same things. A study by The Times newspaper found that many products for women cost twice as much as similar things for men. Researchers looked at hundreds of goods in shops. They found that clothes, beauty products and toys were 36 per cent more expensive than those for men and boys. One store charged $7 more for a pink scooter than a black one. Another store charged double the price for pink razors. Researchers said women's Levi 501 jeans were 46 per cent more expensive than those for men.
The Times called this "sexist" pricing. Other people said it was a "gender tax". The chairwoman of the British government's women and equalities committee called it a "rip-off" and an example of price discrimination. Britain's Financial Times (FT) newspaper said: "Perhaps women tend to be busier and have less time to shop around. Or perhaps they care more about quality…,whereas men just want something cheap." However, the FT said men did pay more for some things. It asked why journalists did not look at price differences for things that appeal more to men.
]]> 2021-10-13 03:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812686657 Flying car flies from one city to another（nhóm 9） https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812687196 It's hard to keep up with technology these days. The latest example of science fiction becoming science fact is a flying car. For decades, we have watched movies about a future with flying cars. This week, journalists saw a real one in flight. A prototype flying AirCar completed a test flight between two cities in Slovakia. The car flew between a regional airport and an airport in the capital city Bratislava. The 90km journey took 35 minutes to complete. AirCar is from a company called Klein Vision. A founder of the company said: "AirCar is no longer just a proof of concept." He added: "Flying at [2,500 metres] at a speed of [185kph], it has turned science fiction into a reality."
AirCar is a road-legal car that transforms into an aircraft in less than three minutes. AirCar CEO Professor Stefan Klein flew and landed the vehicle on its recent test flight. After landing at Bratislava Airport, he pushed one button to transform the aircraft into a sports car. He then drove it into downtown Bratislava on the city's streets. He described the flight as "normal" and "very pleasant". His company is working on a new, more powerful model called AirCar Prototype 2. This will have a much more powerful engine that is capable of a cruising speed of 300kph and a range of 1,000 kilometres. The newer model will also be a four-seater as opposed to the two-seater that was recently tested.
]]> 2021-10-13 03:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812687196 TV Education (N3) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812687851 Real-life stories turned into television (TV) stories are captivating TV audiences. New mainstream shows are about educating people about difficult subjects.

This is instead of entertaining them. Education TV shows usually makes you think of documentaries, cooking shows, children’s shows, or the shows on the Discovery Channel.

However, the idea of turning true difficult stories into TV shows goes back to the 1970s when the show “Roots” was on TV. It was about American slavery.

A TV director said that “Roots” showed people the awful truth about slavery. It made them rethink their preconceived stereotypes.

This is happening now. In 2019, people are using the Netflix show “Unbelievable” to find out more about unsolved rapes.

These shows from real life are winning awards, and more TV companies are continuing to make them.

Difficult words: captivate (to be very interesting), mainstream (common, well-known), preconceived stereotype (an idea that someone already had about another person or a group of people).]]> 2021-10-13 03:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812687851 Better Future for Businesses - nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812688146 Once COVID-19 vaccination is widespread, consumer and workplace behavior will likely change and it will impact markets. Which sectors will respond to the vaccine?

In anticipation of the roll out, one of the biggest increases is the energy sector. As people become more mobile, flying, going on cruise lines, or doing road trips, there´s going to be a higher demand for gasoline and oil.

Information technology is going to ease off, as people start to get back to work and not need some items that they have been using during the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for agricultural products that revolve around restaurants is likely to increase. These products include, for example, sugar or coffee.

Difficult words: sector (an area of business or a place), anticipation (a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that is going to happen), roll out (to introduce something for a widespread sale or use to the public), ease off (to be reduced in degree or intensity).


]]> 2021-10-13 03:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812688146 Passengers do not want to wear masks ( nhóm 3 ) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812689009 As of 28 September, the US Federal Aviation Administration documented nearly 4,500 reports of unruly passengers and close to 3,300 mask-related incidents.

Airline passengers who behave badly is nothing new; however, in January, due to a disturbing increase in violent behavior on flights, the FAA enacted a no-tolerance policy for anyone who assaults, threatens or interferes with airline crew members. Travel after the pandemic is not the same, and rules like wearing a mask must be enforced on flights by federal law. However, this has been a real challenge for crew members. Although passengers sign an agreement that they will wear the masks, they don´t always want to do it.

As flight attendants have been attacked, they´re currently being taught effective self-defense for use on board. Consequences for unruly behavior have been upped with a fine of up to 37,000 dollars or criminal charges. The FAA already started 169 cases this year and levied more than 1 million dollars in fines.]]> 2021-10-13 03:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812689009 G1: Google First 100 Billion Dollar Brand https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812689126 Google just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The search engine giant is not only the world’s biggest brand, it is also the first brand worth $100 billion. A report from the market research firm Millward Brown shows Google has kept its position as the world’s most powerful brand. It valued the company at $101.4 billion. This is 25 per cent higher than its biggest rival Microsoft, which is the second most valuable brand. The “Top 100 Most Powerful Brands” report lists Coca Cola at number three, followed by IBM and McDonalds. Technology companies make up eight of the top ten. Google’s brand is helped because it is now also a verb in everyday use. It is very common to hear people say “Google it” when they want some information.

The report is the world’s largest study of what consumers and businesses think of brands. It says a brand name is key for any business to grow. “A strong brand can help protect a business from risk, and position it for future growth,” it says. The authors believe a strong brand name is “the ultimate return on investment”. Joanna Seddon, chief executive of Millward Brown, told reporters: "In the current [economic] environment, brand has become even more important because it can help to sustain companies in tough times." Her report says brand value has grown, even through the recession: “The value of brands remains strong…the total value of the top 100 most valuable brands has increased to just under $2 trillion.”
]]> 2021-10-13 03:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812689126 Fish from a lab (Nhóm 7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812690828 Salmon is the most eaten fish in the world, and the number of salmon in oceans is going down very quickly. At the same time, salmon farms are having troubles because sea water is getting warmer.

A company in San Francisco, US, came up with an interesting idea. It makes salmon in a lab where it grows in special tanks. Experts use real salmon cells which grow and they look like real meat. The color and texture are very similar and it tastes good, too.

This salmon does not have anything that most fish have nowadays. Since oceans water is dirty, fish have many dangerous things, for example microplastics and mercury.

Difficult words: cell (the smallest part of a living thing), microplastic (a very small piece of plastic which are in water and they are dangerous to people and animals), mercury (a silver heavy metal which is very dangerous to living things).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812690828 Three baby ducks hatch from supermarket eggs nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812692062 A woman received a big surprise after she bought some duck eggs from a supermarket. Three of the eggs hatched. The woman now has three baby ducks, or ducklings. The woman named the ducklings Beep, Peep and Meep. Charli Lello, 29, bought the eggs from the Waitrose supermarket last month. She was spending all day at home because she was furloughed from her job as an assistant manager in a shop. She decided to use her free time to do things around the house. Ms Lello told reporters that she got the idea for incubating the eggs after seeing a video on Facebook. The video showed how someone hatched quail eggs after buying them from a supermarket.
Lello said the ducklings would live, "a very happy life". She said they would be good company for her pet chickens. She explained why she tried her experiment. She said: "While I was in Waitrose, I saw the duck eggs and thought maybe they would [hatch]. I was so excited for them to hatch, but I still had in the back of my mind that these are supermarket eggs." She said she was surprised when the eggs hatched. She said: "They have been collected, bashed around on a delivery truck, then rattled around on a trolley onto a shelf." She added that it had been an "amazing" experience. She called her ducklings "the cutest little balls of fluff". A duck farm said it is very unusual for ducklings to hatch from supermarket eggs.
]]> 2021-10-13 03:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812692062 TV Education - n7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812693772 Real-life stories turned into television (TV) stories are captivating TV audiences. New mainstream shows are about educating people about difficult subjects.

This is instead of entertaining them. Education TV shows usually makes you think of documentaries, cooking shows, children’s shows, or the shows on the Discovery Channel.

However, the idea of turning true difficult stories into TV shows goes back to the 1970s when the show “Roots” was on TV. It was about American slavery.

A TV director said that “Roots” showed people the awful truth about slavery. It made them rethink their preconceived stereotypes.

This is happening now. In 2019, people are using the Netflix show “Unbelievable” to find out more about unsolved rapes.

These shows from real life are winning awards, and more TV companies are continuing to make them.

Difficult words: captivate (to be very interesting), mainstream (common, well-known), preconceived stereotype (an idea that someone already had about another person or a group of people).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812693772 China grows plants on the moon nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812694613 For the first time, plants from Earth are growing on the moon. China's space agency showed photos of cotton seeds sprouting into life. It said they were among several plants that were growing. The other plants include potatoes, rock cress and rapeseed. It is part of a Chinese project to the far side of the moon. The project is called a "moon surface micro-ecological circle". Project leader Liu Hanlong says the cotton was the first to sprout. He said he chose the plants because they were small, strong and could grow in the difficult conditions on the moon's surface.
Professor Hanlong said the aim was to understand how plants grow in space and to develop plants that can grow on the moon or in space. The professor said the team is looking at the future survival in space. Learning about these plants growing could allow us to lay the foundation for starting a space base. The project also includes yeast and fruit flies in creating a mini-ecosystem. The plants will produce oxygen and food for the fruit flies; the yeast could change the flies' waste and the dead plants into another kind of food source.
]]> 2021-10-13 03:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812694613 Drones bring you pizza(G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812695787 A pizza chain in the north of Russia began pizza deliveries by drone on Saturday. The first chopper drone delivery was met with applause by witnesses in the Syktyvkar’s main square.

Initially, drone deliveries will be used for active sales in the city parks, beaches and universities by salesmen who will take an order and request a drone to arrive.

The chopper drones involved in the pizza delivery were developed by a Russian company, who says they can fly at a speed of up to 25 miles per hour (40 kilometres per hour).

The company plans to eliminate any human input in the pizza delivery very soon.

Difficult words: chopper drone (drone that flies like a helicopter), witnesses (somebody who sees something), initially (in the beginning), eliminate (to get rid of something), human input (people helping with something).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812695787 G1: New drug for Alzheimer’s https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812695854 he company Biogen made a drug for Alzheimer’s disease, which is the first drug which could possibly help people who suffer from the disease. It is also the first new drug in 18 years.

Some people were excited while others said that more tests were needed to prove the drug was safe.

The cost of the drug is $56,000 per year for one person, which could make $1 billion for Biogen in 2022. The hope is that there will be more drugs like this which will bring down the cost and that researchers find other cheaper treatments.

Difficult words: suffer from (to have problems because of something), prove (to show that something is true), bring down (to make smaller), treatment (a medication, drug, or therapy which helps with an illness),

]]> 2021-10-13 03:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812695854 Disneyland in China ( Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812696361 Disney has opened its first theme park in mainland China today. This comes just a day after a 2-year-old toddler was grabbed and killed by an alligator at the Orlando Disney resort.

Tens of thousands of fans flocked to the theme park today after a grand opening ceremony.

Disney’s largest overseas investment at 5.5 billion dollars, the park is a bet on China’s middle class and booming domestic tourism. The U.S. firm hopes it will offset an otherwise lacklustre international theme park business.

Disney’s chief executive stressed that China is continuing to make itself more attractive to investment from around the world that in turn is mutually beneficial to America. He even had a message from President Barack Obama.

“The opening occurs during the US-China Tourism Year and it reflects the growing relationship between our nations. It promotes further cultural exchanges and underscores the importance of China continuing to make itself more attractive to investment from around the world that is mutually beneficial to both our countries. Barack Obama.”

The company has said that they aimed to build China Disneyland rather than Disneyland in China. With that in mind, Main Street has been replaced by Mickey Avenue to reduce the feel of Americana, while attractions include the Chinese-style Wandering Moon tea house, a Chinese Zodiac-themed garden, and a Tarzan musical featuring Chinese acrobats.

The firm estimates 330 million people within a 3-hour radius of Shanghai, the country’s financial centre, will be able to afford to come to the park. Looks like good news for the company and possibly a good way to deflect from recent events.

Difficult words: toddler (a young child just beginning to walk), grab (take, catch), flock (come in large numbers), lacklustre (not doing well), mutually beneficial (beneficial – helpful for both sides), underscore (underline, emphasise), Americana (American things), deflect (change direction).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812696361 House dust could make us fat （nhóm 9） https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812698503 Scientists say house dust could make us fat. They say that people should keep their house clean if they want to avoid putting on weight. The scientists are from Duke University in the USA. They did some research on how dust affects mice. The researchers collected dust samples from 11 different houses and put them in the cells of mice. Dust from nine of the houses made the mice fatter. The scientists said house dust changed the hormones in the mice that create fat in their body. The scientists said that we breathe in and swallow small amounts of dust. Researcher Dr Heather Stapleton said: "Amounts of dust as low as three micrograms…caused measurable effects."
The dust particles contained chemicals called EDCs. These can change or copy the body's hormones. EDCs are found in sofas and carpets to make them fire resistant. They are also added to some plastics, to make them bend more, and in cosmetics, food packaging, and household cleaning products. The researchers said EDCs are everywhere in most houses. They say the chemicals can affect our health, and that children are at a higher risk. EDCs also cause other health risks including creating learning disabilities in children. Studies have also shown that EDCs can raise the risk of cancer and infertility. The researchers said there was a "critical need" to assess things we make that can make us unhealthy.
]]> 2021-10-13 03:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812698503 Eating nuts could help us to keep slim nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812698749 New research says eating nuts could be a valuable, tasty and nutritious slimming aid. Researchers from Harvard University recommended that people replace a daily unhealthy snack with a small handful of nuts to slow down weight gain. They say this is especially helpful for people as they get older. The researchers found that people who ate just 14g of nuts every day gained less weight than those who ate another snack. The people who ate the nuts were less likely to become obese. However, the benefits to our weight could be quite small. The scientists said swapping chocolate, cakes and potato chips with nuts could help prevent a weight gain of just 0.4 to 0.7kg over four years.
The researchers conducted a long-term study in which they looked at the lifestyle of nearly 190,000 people over two decades. The participants in the research were divided into three groups. They included more than 51,000 male health professionals aged 40 to 75, 121,700 nurses aged 35 to 55 and 16,686 nurses aged 24 to 44. Researchers asked the participants questions every four years about their weight, how often they ate nuts, and how often they exercised. Researcher doctor Xiaoran Liu said: "Incorporating nuts [into] a healthy diet by replacing less healthy foods may help [reduce] the gradual weight gain common during adulthood and beneficially contribute to the prevention of obesity."
]]> 2021-10-13 03:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812698749 Google Testing Self-Driving Car (11th October, 2010) NHÓM 4 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812700511
 Google is testing a car it believes is the future of motoring. The Internet giant has been testing the car that drives itself for several months. It has driven along thousands of miles of public roads in California. The car is guided by sensors, lasers and video cameras. A Google spokesperson explained to concerned motorists that the car has never been driven “unmanned,” and had test drivers, just in case things went wrong. The tech company says its vehicles are still “very much at the experimental stage”. Google’s interest in artificial intelligence is a sign that it wants to branch out beyond the web. It is an extension of its Street View project, in which millions of streets have been photographed and put online.Google’s blog said the company’s entry into the world of automotive technology is part of its plans to make the world a better place. “Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] founded Google because they wanted to help solve really big problems using technology,” it wrote. The post continued: “One of the big problems we’re working on today is car safety and efficiency. Our goal is to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people’s time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said last month that it was unfortunate that cars were invented before computers: “Your car should drive itself; it’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars,” he told reporters.]]> 2021-10-13 03:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812700511 G1: Venice and cruise ships https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812700835 In Venice, Italy, the government had said that cruise ships were banned from the historic center of Venice.

However, last Saturday, a huge ship came to the center for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started, and hundreds of people protested. People stood at the docks and sailed in boats to block the water, play music, and yell at the ship. Protesters said that the cruise ships were destroying the city, that the ships were too huge, and they made problems before the pandemic.

A cruise lines director for Italy explained that Venice is a home port, which means that many itineraries begin or end there. He said that a lot of money is made for Venice and the cruise lines, and it would be a big problem to remove Venice from the itineraries. He said they were working on a resolution with the city.

Difficult words: ban (to not allow something), dock (a part of a port where goods are loaded), yell (to shout), itinerary (a list of places that you visit on a trip), resolution (a way to fix a problem).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812700835 People do not sleep enough (Nhóm 8) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812701919 Sleep deprivation is a global issue in all the major cities around the world where the amount of sleep decreasing over decades. Now, the decrease is growing with the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stress plays a major role in how we sleep. People are meant to have some kind of routines, and many people lost them during the pandemic and especially during lockdowns. People woke up and went to sleep at odd times, they ate at odd times, and all of that definitely affected their biological rhythms.

Sleep is essential to health, along with nutrition and good exercise. Good quality and good quantity sleep keeps us healthy, and the lack of sleep adds to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and mood disorders. It also affects our higher thinking functions such as problem solving, planning, decision making, risk-taking and, controlling our impulses. People tend to think that they have to sleep less so that they can work more.

Difficult words: sleep deprivation (not getting enough sleep over a long period of time), onslaught (a sudden attack), biological rhythm (when your body tells you it is time to do something like eat or sleep).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812701919 G1: WHO Team Cannot Get to China. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812702840 A World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating COVID-19 has been denied entry to China. However, China agreed to the investigation in December 2020 after months of intense negotiations.

The WHO members were due to investigate the origins of COVID-19 in the city of Wuhan. The virus was first detected in late 2019, with the outbreak linked to a wet market in the city. A team of 10 international experts is aiming to probe the animal origin of the pandemic and how exactly the virus first crossed over to humans.

According to WHO, the barrier to gaining entry into the country was a lack of visa clearances. WHO chief said that he was very disappointed with the news, given that several members of the team had already begun their journeys to China. According to China, this was only a misunderstanding and there was no need to give it importance.

Difficult words: wet market (a market in Asia that sells fresh meat and fish), probe (to explore or examine), visa clearance (the process of deciding to grant or deny a visa to somebody).

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]]> 2021-10-13 03:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812702840 Insect Ice Cream - n7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812705406 At a store in Cape Town, South Africa, food technicians turned maggots into ice cream. The employees make a juice from the maggots, add ingredients like cocoa, and put the insects into the ice cream-making machine.

An employee explained that this is good for the environment, as the maggots are normally thrown away or given to pigs. A professor said that people are willing to eat gourmet burgers made from insects, but they may not be willing to eat ice cream like this. He said that plant alternatives to dairy taste better and are culturally easier to stomach.

People who tried the ice cream said that it tasted like organic or vegan ice cream. The store wants to spread from South Africa to other parts of Africa, Europe, and then the United States.

Difficult words: maggot (a soft, legless larva of a fly or other insect which looks like a worm), stomach (digest or eat; understand or accept).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812705406 New Phone Boxes ( Nhóm 9) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812706366 The iconic red phone boxes were once everywhere in Britain, and they were a popular tourist attraction. However, in the age of smartphones, their numbers are growing smaller.

One company thought that it was a good idea to take the phone boxes into the 21st century. The company decided to turn them into small offices with Wi-Fi, plug sockets, a phone, a printer, a scanner and free coffee and tea.

The company launches its first work station in London this month and it is opening others soon. It plans to expand to other cities in October.

Difficult words: age (a time), launch (open), expand (become present).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812706366 Scientists explain video-conferencing fatigue （nhóm 9） https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812706554 A new study from Stanford University has investigated the effects on our health of extended spells of video-conferencing. Researcher and communications expert Jeremy Bailenson dubbed the phenomenon "Zoom fatigue," but acknowledged the condition is not restricted to just that platform. In the past year, most of us have spent extended periods of time online using an array of video-conferencing platforms. The coronavirus pandemic has meant tools like Zoom, FaceTime, Skype and Google Hangouts have been the only way we have been able to see and chat to loved ones. Many companies have relied heavily on video-conferencing for meetings, and educators have used them to teach their lessons online.
Mr Bailenson outlined several factors that make video-conferencing so fatigue-inducing. He said it is not just tiredness and eye-strain from staring at a computer screen for hours and hours. It is also brought about by "cognitive overload" and feeling pressure to be perpetually switched on. We constantly feel we need to be in touch with friends or available for bosses, customers or students. Bailenson cautioned this leads to burnout and stress and can heighten your chance of developing moderate to severe depression. He said this anxiety can adversely affect your self-confidence. This is because of the large number of faces staring at you in meetings. Bailenson likens this to the stresses of public speaking.

]]> 2021-10-13 03:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812706554 G1: Instagram for children https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812707439 Politicians in 44 US states and territories told Facebook’s boss to stop plans to make a version of Instagram for children. They wrote a letter that said social media is hurtful to children who do not know how to handle the challenges of social media.

They also said that Facebook has not protected children in the past when they made a version of Facebook Messenger for children. They said that children were able to chat with strangers who their parents did not approve.

Facebook said that it was exploring the idea of Instagram for children, that it would protect their safety and privacy, and that it would not show advertising.

Difficult words: territory (a place that a country owns but it is less official than a state), approve (to say that it is OK to do something).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812707439 G1: Disneyland in China https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812707712 Disney opened its first theme park in mainland China. Tens of thousands of fans came to the theme park after a grand opening ceremony.

The park is Disney’s largest overseas investment at 5.5 billion dollars. It is a bet at China’s middle class and it´s growing domestic tourism. Around 330 million people within a 3-hour radius of Shanghai will be able to afford to come to the park.

China is continuing to make itself more attractive to investment from around the world. That is in turn mutually beneficial to America.

Difficult words: bet at (think something will turn out the way you want it to), domestic (national), mutually beneficial (beneficial – helpful for both sides).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812707712 G1: Machine Makes Books Safe . https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812708620 Libraries in Japan use machines that sterilize books using UV light. According to a Japanese information media for foreign residents, there are more than three million machines installed in public libraries throughout the country.

It takes 30 seconds to sterilize a book and it turns the pages to clear out dust. Visitors can use the machine once they have borrowed a book and then again upon its return. Sterilizing machines give visitors reassurance to take out publications during the coronavirus pandemic; however, it is not required to use them.

Although some libraries had a machine installed in 2018, they are now being used three times as much. Many of libraries´ patrons are elderly, and so keeping them safe is extra important. Japan has avoided a vast number of COVID-19 cases and deaths; however, the country is now experiencing a third wave.

Difficult words: sterilize (make something free from bacteria or other organisms), UV light (invisible rays that are a part of the sunlight or special lamps and lasers), patron (a regular customer), wave (a high number of things).

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]]> 2021-10-13 03:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812708620 Moon tourism - nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812710489 Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be the first tourist to fly around the moon.

The fashion tycoon wants to take artists from around the world with him, so when they come back to Earth, they can create masterpieces that ‘will inspire the dreamer in all of us’.

SpaceX will take him there in the BFR spaceship. The company is planning the trip for 2023, and it will be the first lunar trip since 1972.

Difficult words: tycoon (a powerful businessman), masterpiece (an amazing work of art), lunar (relating to the moon).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812710489 Dog walking can be harmful for older people nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812712533 It is common sense that dog-walking is good for older people. It is a good excuse to get some healthy exercise. Research shows that dog-walking can be bad for seniors. A report in a medical journal says more seniors are getting injured because of dog-walking. Researchers found over 32,000 cases of over-65s suffering fractures after dog-walking. Some injuries were serious and the senior needed emergency surgery.
Researchers advised of possible dangers to walking a dog. They said older adults with weaker bones must think about these dangers. The researchers said just one injury could cause a deadly hip fracture. It could also cause lifelong complications and lost independence. Researchers blamed a "small person/big dog" scenario for many accidents. Big dogs are often mismatched with weak seniors. An elderly dog owner said old people need dogs.
]]> 2021-10-13 03:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812712533 G1: New York City bans cashless stores https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812713138 The advance of technology in our lives has been halted somewhat in New York City. Lawmakers have passed a bill to ban cashless businesses. With many parts of the world in a seemingly relentless drive to replace cash with plastic or digital payments, New York City officials have decided cash still has a valuable part to play in our lives. The officials have approved legislation that prohibits stores, restaurants and other retail outlets from refusing to accept cash. They want to provide the ability for people who prefer to pay via traditional means, through notes and coins. This means businesses in the city will no longer be able to insist that customers make use of cashless payments in any transactions.
Businesses that violate the new regulation could face hefty fines of up to $1,500 for each offense. Critics of cashless businesses say they discriminate against the poorer sections of society, many of whom do not have bank accounts or credit cards. One city resident said: "I worry about the real-world discriminatory effect that cashless business can have on New Yorkers, especially in communities of color." Another said: "I think it's incredibly discriminatory not to accept cash because some people can't get credit." An opponent of the bill said it was a sign of government interference: He said: "We are inserting ourselves in the business of business in a way that we don't have the right to."
]]> 2021-10-13 03:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812713138 G1: Young people buy clothes online https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812713903 Depop is a shopping app made for and by Gen Z, and it is taking the sustainable shopping world by storm, boasting more than 30 million users across 150 countries.

Depop is an online hub where people buy and sell used clothing, vintage shoes, and accessories, and the hub is disrupting the global retail industry.

Depop is powered by young influencers like 20-year-old Moira Campos who is one of Depop´s top sellers. She has about 40,000 followers, and selling clothes online has become a full-time job for her. She works with her brother to find, shoot, and sell dozens of items on the app every week.

According to analysts, Depop could be a real threat to traditional retailers because the younger generation and influencers like to create one-of-a-kind outfits at a great price. However, there are questions about ethics, too. Some young sellers buy clothing in bulk, and then they sell them on the online store for twice the price. As more teens turn to the app, some people fear that sustainability might lose out to profitability.

Difficult words: hub (the most important place where a particular activity takes place), vintage (clothing, jewelry or other things that aren´t new but still valued because of the quality or good condition), ethics (when people think something is good or bad), bulk (many items of the same thing).

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]]> 2021-10-13 03:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812713903 G1: Babies Learn to Stand https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812715685 Since 1990, an Icelandic doctor has been teaching babies that are very young how to stand and balance.

To demonstrate, he stood in a pool and held up one baby on his hand, and the baby was able to stand without falling. His simple methods are to make their spines and upper bodies stronger.

Some doctors are puzzled by this. One doctor said that this is not logical. He explained that babies normally learn to stand by leaning on a chair at the age of seven to eight months old.

Difficult words: method (a way of doing something), spine (the bones that hold up the body along a person’s back), puzzle (confuse).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812715685 G1: When women run the economy. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812716597 Many women have top jobs in the biggest economic institutions in the world, and it can be a very important change from the situation ten years ago.

In the US, women have top jobs in President Biden´s government. Almost 48% of officials in Biden´s government are women, and it can have a big impact on people´s lives. Women in top jobs seem to care more about how people really live and not only about numbers.

Outside the US, the situation is changing, too, and more women have top jobs in important global institutions. These institutions are, for example, the European Central Bank or the World Trade Organization.

The last global crisis had a big impact on women, who are 39% of all working people. 54% of people who lost jobs during the crisis were women. Women finance ministers and leaders bring more hope to all working women.

Difficult words: top job (the most important position in a company), economic institution (banks and other companies which deal with money), finance minister (the person in a government who cares about the country´s money).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812716597 G1: Art Exhibition for Dogs https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812720336 This news is for all dog lovers who also like art – there is an art exhibition for dogs in London. And it’s interactive!

One piece of art is a model of a car with a fan next to it. Dogs can get in the car, put their heads outside the windows, and enjoy the ride! There is also a 3-metre dog bowl filled with brown balls, which look like dog food.

The creator says that it is important for the health of dogs that they play. He hopes that the artwork makes a lot of dogs happy.

Difficult words: exhibition (a show in a museum), interactive (you can interact with it – do something to/with it).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812720336 G1: China´s three-child policy https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812722646 China introduced its three-child policy, and it is very difficult for Chinese working mothers. A policy is a law.

61% of Chinese mothers work, which is the highest number in all of Asia. In the past, there was the one-child policy in China, which meant that couples could have only one child. Now, that policy has a very negative impact on the Chinese population, which is getting old. China wants to encourage couples to have more children, but working mothers have many problems with the new policy.

Working mothers must look after children and the household when they come home from work. Companies discriminate against working mothers because they know that men or other women can work more. Companies do not want to pay maternity leave, which is 98 days and it is with full pay. The government pays only a part of the money, and companies do not like it.

Difficult words: encourage (to help someone feel confident and able to do something), discriminate (to be unfair to someone because of sex, skin color, or age), maternity leave (the time when a woman who has a baby can stay with the baby but still get money from work).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812722646 G1: International Yoga Day. https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812723306 International Yoga Day is celebrated on Sunday 21st of June. Thousands of people participated in preparation for the day in New Delhi. The numbers even affected traffic in parts of the capital.

School children, members of the armed forces, government officials and yoga enthusiasts participated. One student talked about practising yoga. He said that yoga balances stress.

Prime Minister Modi will perform yoga at a public event next month – he is trying to increase the popularity of yoga.

Difficult words: participate (to do something), affect (to change in some way), enthusiast (a person who is enthusiastic about something – loves doing something).

]]> 2021-10-13 03:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1812723306 Piano star – level 3 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1863459851 Brigitte Xie is a four-year-old piano prodigy who has won a spot to perform at New York City´s Carnegie Hall.

Brigitte´s father signed her up for online piano classes on Zoom about a year ago when the video conferencing program became a popular way to attend all kinds of classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. He didn´t expect that his daughter would be a prodigy; however, he was happily surprised that it happened.

When she was just three years and two months old, her piano teacher observed Brigitte´s curious mind and love to learn. The teacher said the girl´s big eyes watched her on how she demonstrated and that Brigitte´s concentration was really high.

Brigitte´s feet hang above the floor when the small girl sits on the piano seat, and her hands move quickly across the piano keys. Brigitte can read music, she can play Beethoven´s Sonatina in F major, and she was the youngest winner of the prestigious Elite International Music Competition.

Difficult words: prodigy (a young person with exceptional qualities or abilities), demonstrate (to show), prestigious (respected and admired for its quality).

]]> 2021-11-03 03:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1863459851 Athletes have problems to get to Tokyo – level 3 nhóm 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1863499795 With three weeks to go until the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, getting athletes to Japan seems like a logistical nightmare with rising COVID-19 infections.

Ensuring 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries descend on one chosen city over the course of 16 days is normally a logistical challenge. For example, under normal circumstances, the Sri Lankan team would take a flight to Singapore and from there onto Tokyo. However, with COVID-19 cases still at almost 2,000 a day, Sri Lanka´s on many countries´ banned lists, and Singapore doesn´t allow anyone with recent travel history to even move through the city.

Although most athletes have been fully vaccinated, there have already been some upsets when two members of Uganda´s Olympic team tested positive in Japan last month.

Another logistics problem during the pandemic has been that many athletes haven´t been able to train in the locations that they normally would. Difficulty with international travel has also made getting to the necessary qualifying events extremely tricky.

Difficult words: logistics, logistical (related to the process of organizing and transporting something or someone to the final destination), descend (to go or come down), challenge (a situation that needs great effort in order to be done).

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]]> 2021-11-03 03:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1863499795 G1: Dogs Smell Cancer https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1863573144 Military dogs which used to protect soldiers are now being trained to sniff out prostate cancer in patients’ urine samples. The Italian researchers started the study after reading about dogs that were used to smell melanoma.

Dogs’ noses are very powerful, as they have up to 300 million sensors compared to a measly six million in humans. One dog was even able to identify the disease in a patient before the medical team.

As impressive as the canines’ performance is, you will not see dogs roaming hospital wards to diagnose patients any time soon. The team in Tuscany wants to develop an electronic tool to replicate the dog’s sense of smell.
Difficult words: melanoma (a form of skin cancer), sensor (a measuring device), measly (ridiculously few), canine (the scientific word for ‘dog’), roam (walk around).
]]> 2021-11-03 04:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1863573144 https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/facebook-changes-name-level-3/ https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1883036113 In an announcement by Facebook´s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company has renamed itself as Meta.

The change comes as the company faces wide-ranging criticism of the real-world harms from its various platforms after a whistleblower leaked hundreds of internal documents.

The renaming could be part of an effort to change Facebook´s reputation following the series of PR nightmares, including misinformation on its platforms, content moderation, and failures and information about the negative effect its products have on some users´ mental health.

According to Zuckerberg, the company´s mission remains the same, as it is still about bringing people together. The new name shows Facebook´s desire to change toward being a new computing platform focused on virtual reality. The new name shows the full idea of what the company does and the future it wants to help build. The company also revealed new technology like Horizon Home and the Oculus Quest 2 that will help build the metaverse.

Difficult words: whistleblower (a person, usually an employee, who informs on a person or organization regarded as engaging in an unlawful or immoral  activity), PR (public relations, ,techniques, and strategies for communication from an organization to the public), metaverse (a virtual-reality space in which users interact with a computer-generated environment and other users).

]]> 2021-11-11 02:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1883036113 Why do children go to school? https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1884206218 What is school for? This may seem an easy question to answer, but a poll taken in the USA shows people have different opinions on why kids go to school. The poll is called the 'Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools'. It is from a global association of education professionals called PDK International. PDK asked Americans to name the biggest purpose of school. Just 45 per cent of people who took part in the poll said the main goal of school was to prepare students to pass exams. Around a quarter of people said the main purpose was to get kids ready to join the workforce. Just over 26 per cent of Americans believed the biggest reason for school was to teach children about citizenship.
Joshua Starr, CEO of PDK, said the poll questioned whether today's schools were doing the right thing. He said: "One has to really question whether the direction we've been going is consistent with what the public wants." He quoted from author James Baldwin, who said in 1963 that the purpose of school is "to ask questions of the universe and learn to live with those questions." Students had different ideas about what school was for. Elena Brankov, 15, said school was to teach children to be creative, to share ideas with others and to use technology to make the world a better place. Lyndon Bailey, also 15, said school, "is just to make poor kids into robots who work and make rich people richer".
]]> 2021-11-11 13:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1884206218 Coffee Shop Car https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1885740873 A Jordanian, Fadi Ahmed, has turned his Volkswagen Beetle into a coffee shop.

Ahmed works as a driver in a private company, and he spotted a similar car years ago. He decided to buy his car and open his project in 2019 to help him save his expenses. He serves roadside hot drinks and herbs every morning as an additional source of income that helps him meet the requirements of life.

Sometimes customers wait for him if he is only a few minutes late while some people are impatient when they have to wait for their drinks to get ready. The green car attracts drivers´ attention, and they are curious to see how their coffee is prepared. Surprisingly, the process is very clean and the coffee is delicious, too. Ahmad used to open his coffee shop only in the month of Ramadan; however, with the coronavirus outbreak, he started to serve coffee from it daily.

Difficult words: expense (the cost required for something), additional (added or extra), Ramadan (the ninth month of the Muslim year during which people don´t eat during the day).

]]> 2021-11-12 03:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1885740873 Cheetah and a dog https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1885781970 You might think that they would be unlikely playmate, but 7-week-old cheetah cub Ruuxa and his 8-week-old Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy companion Raina, have formed quite the friendship in the latest attraction at San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California.

After being rejected by his mother and being hand-raised by keepers, Ruuxa was chosen as an animal ambassador, and was paired up early in life with Raina for companionship.

The fast friends are still under the watchful eyes of their trainers for their playdates and the young pair will be monitored closely, as their bond develops, says animal training manager Susie Ekard.

“They are being introduced, so they still have supervised visits but they love playing with each other and they are having a great time so we decided it was now time to add in letting the public seeing this. So it will be everyday from 12:15 to 1 o’clock.”

As the two friends grow up together, Raina’s body language will communicate to Ruuxa that there is nothing to fear in new or public surroundings, which relaxes and calms the cheetah.

It promises to be the start of something special for this cute couple.

Difficult words: cub (baby cheetah), ambassador (somebody who represents a group of people/animals), supervise (keep watch over somebody).

]]> 2021-11-12 03:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1885781970 Chanel No.5 -Nhóm 7 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1888784388 Workers in Pegomas, France, are harvesting jasmine flowers, the key ingredient in Chanel´s iconic No. 5 perfume that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

France´s Grasse region became a flower and fragrance hub in the 17th century. Chanel struck a deal with a local farming family in the 1980s to keep its flower production in the region.

At that time, some local farmers had sold their land, and jasmine production moved to other countries. Olivier Polge, the head perfumer of Chanel, said that the company had to work hard to get enough of the ingredient at the same time it was under threat due to real estate pressure and the evolution of society in general. When Chanel joined with the local farming family the Muls, the quantity and continuation of quality of the jasmine flower continued.

Chanel No. 5 was the first perfume launched by French couturier Gabrielle ´Coco´ Chanel in 1921, and the scent formula for the fragrance was created by French-Russian chemist and perfumer Ernest Beaux.

Difficult words: hub (the center of an activity), couturier (a fashion designer), scent formula (all the ingredients that blend together to form a fragrance).

]]> 2021-11-14 04:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1888784388 Finland to reform education for the digital age (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1903276925 Finland wants more than to have the world's best education system. It wants to prepare students for the digital age. It wants to put more emphasis on digital and workplace skills. An example of this would be to use 3D printers in classes for students to make models of things they read about. There will also be training in real-life work places. Students' performance would be judged by a teacher and by a worker from the company helping the student.
One teacher explained why change was necessary. She said school is divided into subjects to learn, but our brain is not divided into subjects. She said students needed to think differently. They needed to think about the problems in the world. She questioned whether today's children get the skills to succeed in such an inter-cultural world. She warned it would be a mistake to let children think that the world is simple, and that all they need is facts.
]]> 2021-11-20 05:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1903276925 The word 'they' is now also a singular pronoun (N7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1903344405 Merriam-Webster added a new definition of the pronoun "they" to its Webster's Dictionary. It says "they" also refers to a "single person whose gender identity is non-binary". These are people who identify neither as male nor female. Many places use a gender-neutral option on official forms. Many local governments, schools and airlines have the choice of "X" for people who do not consider themselves as male or female, and for gender fluid people.
Merriam-Webster said using "they" for "he" or "she" recognizes people who did not "conform to an expected gender expression, or who seemed to be neither male nor female". It says the word "they" was used as a singular pronoun in the 1300s. Shakespeare used it in this way in the 17th century. Also, the 1898 play Antony and Cleopatra has the words: "No man goes to battle to be killed....But they do get killed." Many people use the singular "they" today.
]]> 2021-11-20 08:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1903344405 G6 - Dog surfing competition https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1903398556 Four legged dudes and dudettes. A crowd of surfing enthusiasts entered their pets into a one-of-a-kind surfing competition in California. Dogs of all shapes, sizes and breeds jumped on boards to see who could ride the waves the most effectively. First prize for large dogs went to Hanzo of Hollywood.

“He is the current defending champion. Last year he won all three competitions of the tandem heat, and this year he won the large dog heat and also the tandem heat, first place. He loves what he does, and people really see that he really loves to surf.”

Owners were keen to stress that the dogs were really enjoying what they were doing.

“It’s hard to say it’s cruel. Some dogs may like it, some may not. The key is knowing what your dog likes. It’s a great bonding experience, and if she didn’t like it she wouldn’t be out here putting up with it, she’d run away, she would hide, she’d stray away.”

Hundreds watched the event on Imperial Beach with some owners even dressing up their pets up like characters, such as the Muppets.

Difficult words: dude (boy), dudette (girl), enthusiast (somebody who loves doing something), tandem heat (round when man and dog compete together against another pair), keen (willing), bonding (it establishes relationship), stray (walk).

]]> 2021-11-20 09:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1903398556 Soybean products may help you live longer https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1906275018 Why do Japanese people live longer than the rest of us? One reason might be soybean products like tofu and miso. Scientists from Japan's National Institute of Health and Nutrition did a study into the health benefits of soybean products. They said people who regularly ate tofu and miso were 10 per cent less likely to die from diseases than people who ate no soybean products. Eating soybean-based food cut the risk of death from heart attacks, stroke and other cardiovascular problems. Eating fermented soy products lowered the risk of death.
Soybeans are superfoods. They are rich in protein, fibre, minerals and unsaturated fats. Soy fibre helps to lower cholesterol and reduce weight. Soy is an important part of the cuisine of Asia, especially Japan. People in Asia have eaten soy since ancient times. The most common types of soy products are tofu (soybean curd), natto (fermented soybeans), miso (a fermented soybean paste added to soups) and soy sauce. Miso is high in salt. Researchers said salt in miso does not put people at risk of high blood pressure. Soybean products are becoming popular around the world.
]]> 2021-11-22 14:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1906275018 (G8)Best to learn a new language before age of 10 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1907888036 New research suggests that to achieve native-like proficiency in a new language, people should start learning before the age of ten. Researchers said children up to the age of 18 remain skilled at learning grammar. Unfortunately, those who want to pick up a new language beyond their late teens are past the "critical period" when language-learning ability starts to decline. A researcher said: "As far as a child is concerned, it's quite easy to become bilingual....That's when you're best at learning languages. It's not really something that you can make up later."
The research was based on the results of 670,000 people taking a 10-minute online grammar quiz. Researchers measured the grammatical ability of people who started learning a language at different points in their life. The test had grammar rules that were likely to confuse non-native speakers. These measured a person's proficiency. Another researcher suggested older people might be too busy to learn a language. He said after 17 or 18, people leave home, go to university or start work. All of these could affect how well someone learns a language.
]]> 2021-11-23 08:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1907888036 California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash (nhóm 5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1908600668 If everything had gone according to plan, California would have approved new guidelines this month for math education in public schools. The California guidelines, which are not binding, could overhaul the way many school districts approach math instruction. The draft rejected the idea of naturally gifted children, recommended against shifting certain students into accelerated courses in middle school and tried to promote high-level math courses that could serve as alternatives to calculus, like data science or statistics. The draft also suggested that math should not be colorblind and that teachers could use lessons to explore social justice — for example, by looking out for gender stereotypes in word problems, or applying math concepts to topics like immigration or inequality. The battle over math comes at a time when education policy, on issues including masks, testing and teaching about racism, has become entangled in bitter partisan debates. The Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, seized on those issues to help propel him to victory on Tuesday. Now, Republicans are discussing how these education issues can help them in the midterm elections next year.]]> 2021-11-23 14:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1908600668 ( nhóm 8)We may be able to learn vocabulary while sleeping https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1914463660 A study shows we could learn vocabulary while we are asleep. This is great news for students trying to learn a new language or increase their knowledge of words. Researchers in Switzerland showed that it is possible to learn new information while sleeping deeply, and then recall this information when we need it later. The researchers did tests on whether or not a person can remember new words and their translations while they were asleep. The researchers said our sleeping brain is much more aware of the outside world than we thought.
A researcher said, "language areas of the brain and the...brain's essential memory hub were activated" after a person woke up. These areas of the brain remember vocabulary during deep sleep. During deep sleep, our brain is active for about half a second. It then enters a period of inactivity. The active state is called "up-state" and the inactive state is called "down-state." The "up-state" period is when our brain could learn new vocabulary. The researchers say more research is needed to be 100 per cent sure that we can learn vocabulary while asleep.
]]> 2021-11-26 14:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1914463660 Love Fridge(g5) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1915084637 In 2012, community fridges started in Germany, and they grew globally. Their popularity exploded over the pandemic with more than 200, spanning the US from Seattle, Washington, to New York, New York.

More than 13 million US households, or around 35 million Americans, experienced food insecurity sometime in 2020. Generally, the issue wasn´t a lack or shortage of food but how they received it. The love fridge’s goal is to address food insecurity, when members of a community make most of the food. However, local restaurants help prepare nutritious meals, too. Volunteers give these meals, and people in need can take them out from the fridges. People come every day, and that is why the fridges are empty all the time.

Problems with a lack of food are anchored in communities, typically to Black and Hispanic families who live in areas with poorly supplied grocery stores. However, in 2019, 408 billion dollars; worth of food was either uneaten or unsold, which makes 35% of all the prepared food.

]]> 2021-11-27 03:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1915084637 Robots in Our Lives – l3 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1915087744 A new exhibition in London charts humanity’s fascination for robots throughout the ages – one model at the exhibition dates back to the 16th century. Almost three metres tall, Cygan, a celebrity robot of the fifties, is the display’s centrepiece.

Hugo Elias from Shadow Robot Company said that we are probably a few years away from having very serious robotics in our lives. The first thing will be self-driving cars, and humanoid robots in our homes coming in the next 20 or 30 years.

Ben Russel, the curator, commented on people’s fear of robots ‘turning into terrifying things that enslave us all’ – he thinks that it is quite natural to be afraid of them, but he sees the chances of it actually happening as slim.

]]> 2021-11-27 03:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1915087744 Rich parents help children get into universities (G7) https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1915442971 A federal jury in Boston convicted two wealthy fathers in the first US college admissions scandal trial. The charges were for corruptly trying to buy their children´s way into elite universities as fake athletic recruits.

The jury found a former casino businessman and a finance businessman guilty of using fraud and bribery. The two men are among 57 people charged in which wealthy parents worked with an admissions consultant to get places for their children.

One of the fathers supposedly paid 300,000 dollars in 2018 to get his daughter into the University of Southern California as a basketball recruit, while the other man offered 220,000 dollars in 2014 for his son to go to the same university as a water polo recruit. Four years later, he paid one million dollars to try to get his twin daughters into two other universities.

Acting US attorney Nathaniel Mendel said that what the men did was an affront to hardworking students and parents. The verdict proved that even these defendants, powerful and privileged people, weren´t above the law.

]]> 2021-11-27 13:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1915442971 What makes Blackpink different from other groups? https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1915901567 https://time.com/5562946/blackpink-k-pop-everything-to-know/
Why are they called Blackpink?

The group’s name was conceived to contrast with the perception of femininity commonly associated with the color pink. When Blackpink debuted, their label YG Entertainment said the name intends to convey that the group embodies more than beauty. “I may look sweet, but I don’t act like it,” Jennie sings in the opening lines of “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du,” echoing this message.
What makes Blackpink different from other groups?
Blackpink’s discography is limited — before “Kill This Love,” the group had released fewer than 20 tracks since their debut in 2016, including the Japanese versions of their Korean songs. Nevertheless, a handful of their singles have not only ranked on Billboard charts but gone viral online, with their signature choreographies regularly replicated by fellow K-pop idols and global fans in dance covers.
A large part of the group’s appeal is their ferocity, created through a blend of bold rapping, powerful singing and chic styling. Although dark and edgy concepts are not a novelty in K-pop girl groups, Blackpink double down on these through the imagery in their music videos, such as the bejeweled tank in “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du.”]]> 2021-11-28 05:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1915901567 SURROGACY SERVICES https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1916244829 https://surrogate.com/about-surrogacy/surrogacy-101/top-7-surrogacy-services-and-where-to-find-them/
Surrogacy is not a process you complete alone. Find out more about the services that will be required for a successful surrogacy.

The surrogacy process can be overwhelming. Fortunately, there are a variety of legal, medical, emotional and financial services available that can make the entire process easier to manage for intended parents and surrogates alike.

In this article, find seven essential services for surrogacy, as well as information about where to find each one.

1. Screening and Matching
Matching services help intended parents and surrogates find each other based on each party’s surrogacy goals and preferences, while screening services ensure each party is safe to work with and ready to commit to surrogacy.

Most surrogacy matching services involve a mutual matching process. Intended parents and surrogates each create their own surrogacy plan and profile, which gives a brief introduction of who they are and what they are hoping to gain from the surrogacy process. Surrogates will get an opportunity to review intended parent profiles and vice versa. When a surrogate and intended parents reciprocate interest in one another, they will have an opportunity to get to know each other before moving forward in an official match.

Where to find this surrogacy service: Some intended parents and surrogates choose to find each other through their own independent networking avenues, while others choose to work with a surrogacy agency. Agencies usually provide extensive screening services and use detailed databases to match intended parents and surrogates. These professionals can also offer surrogacy planning and profile development services.

]]> 2021-11-28 13:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1916244829 Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the global economy - Statistics & Facts https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1916290310 https://www.statista.com/topics/6139/covid-19-impact-on-the-global-economy/#topicHeader__wrapper
While there is no way to tell exactly what the economic damage from the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic will be, there is widespread agreement among economists that it will have severe negative impacts on the global economy. Early estimates predicated that, should the virus become a global pandemic, most major economies will lose at least 2.9 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) over 2020. This forecast was already restated to a GDP loss of 3.4 percent. To put this number in perspective, global GDP was estimated at around 84.54 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020 – meaning that a 4.5 percent drop in economic growth results in almost 2.96 trillion U.S. dollars of lost economic output.]]> 2021-11-28 14:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1916290310 G1: DC Comics reveals latest Superman as bisexual in new issue https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1919830778  The Man of Steel will be in a same-sex relationship while combatting the climate crisis and protesting against the deportation of refugees 
 
 
Jonathan Kent, the new iteration of Superman, is bisexual, according to DC Comics.

The traditionally heterosexual superhero will embark on a same-sex relationship with a friend in a new comic. Kent, who is the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, started his tenure in July.

“The idea of replacing Clark Kent with another straight white savior felt like a missed opportunity,” Tom Taylor, the series writer, said in an interview with the New York Times.

His new love interest is Jay Nakamura, a reporter who cares for him after he “mentally and physically burns out from trying to save everyone that he can” in an issue of Superman: Son of Kal-El #5, to be released in November. Nakamura is also revealed to have special powers.


Kent’s sexuality is not the only way in which the character has been updated for a new audience and time. Recent issues have seen him protesting against the deportation of refugees, stopping a high school shooting and trying to put out wildfires that were the cause of the climate crisis. 

]]> 2021-11-30 08:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1919830778 dog-surfing-competition-level-3 https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1920775425 2021-11-30 16:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nxquynh/hehb78ttfllco85t/wish/1920775425