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THE BRAIN

Ode to the brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7jSFeVz1U&feature=kp

 

One student of EOI Santander has been selected for Brain project. Congratulations.

 

A men's thing or a women's thing Book page 75 5B

 

Which of these things depend on the way we are brought up?

 

Women are much more oral Look at this girl:

What languages sound like to foreigners

Me goofing around, showing what certain languages sound like to me. The sentences in this video are made up apart from a few exceptions. Dont take it too seriously!

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A Song for kids If you happy and you're know it clap your hands

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Dictation

Women hide things in cupboards. Men wouldn't spend more than ten or twelve euros  in a hear-cut. Women manage to convince you of things when you are sleeping. Men speak with short sentences. Men can buy anything in less the ninety seconds. Women can't sleep all night through if there is noise. Women know what to do when someone cries.

 

Book page 73

 

The song Mark knopfler - Get lucky

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I'm better with my muscles
Than I am with my mouth
I worked the fairgrounds in the summer
And go pick fruit down south

And when I'm feel them chilly winds
Where the weather goes I follow
Pack up my traveling things go with the swallows

And I might get lucky now and then
You win some, you might get lucky now and then
You win some

I wake up every morning
Keep on eye on what I spent
Gotta think about eating
Gotta think about paying the rent

I always think it's funny
It gets me everytime
I wonder about the happiness and money
Tell it to the breadline

But you might get lucky now and then
You win some, you might get lucky now and then
You win some

Now I'm rambling through this meadow happy as a man can be
Think I just lay me down under this old tree
On and on we go through this old world of shuffling
If you got a truffle dog, you can go truffling

But you might get lucky now and then
You win some, you might get lucky now and then
You win some

Obama's brain project

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2013/04/130405_witn_obamas_brain_project.shtml

5 April 2013

US President Barack Obama has launched a $100m project to map the "enormous mystery" of the human brain. He hopes the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) project will help us understand how the brain works and learn more about diseases such as Alzheimer's.
 

Reporter:

Paul Adams

The president's advisors call the BRAIN project ambitious, evenaudacious. It aims to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show, in the words of a White House statement, how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought. Announcing the programme, Barack Obama said humans could identify distant galaxies and study subatomic particles, but still had a limited understanding of the brain. 

Barack Obama:

"There's this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked. The BRAINInitiative will change that by giving scientists the tools they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action and better understand how we think and how we learn and how we remember."

That knowledge, he said, would be transformative: families no longer helpless at the onset of Parkinson's, and war veterans able to reverse the effects of traumatic brain injury. The administration reckons it costs around $500bn a year to treat the various conditions this project hopes to address. It believes that technological advances, in data processing and revolutionary new techniques like optogenetics mean that, for the first time, this hugely ambitious research is actually possible.

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Phonetics

If I write "define intiative" in a google search with chrome, the first result is this:

https://www.google.com/#q=define+initiative  Initiative https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/initiativemp3
https://www.google.com/#q=define+address address https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/address.mp3
https://www.google.com/#q=define+traumatic traumatic https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/traumatic.mp3
https://www.google.com/#q=define+onset onset https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/onset.mp3
https://www.google.com/#q=define+audacious audacious https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/audacious.mp3
https://www.google.com/#q=define+particle particle https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/particle.mp3
https://www.google.com/#q=define+neuronal neuronal https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/neuronal.mp3

 

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