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Irit Wald Ted Talk ကိုတော့ လူသိများပါတယ်။ တကယ်ကျတော့ Authentic Material နဲ့ Listening လုပ်ဖို့အတွက် တခြား အလားတူ Talk တွေ အများကြီး ရှိပါသေးတယ်။ အခုဟာက Google Talk ထဲကပါ။ https://talksat.withgoogle.com/talk/creating-a-winning-mindset-for-success-happiness-and-satisfaction #B2 #IELTS #Listening #GoogleTalk #Health #Wellbeing 1. Wellness (n-U) the state of being healthy; physical, mental, and emotional health, usually including a healthy way of living, such as a good diet and exercise wellness and disease prevention a wellness centre offering yoga and tai chi a wellness clinic for older women The college has established a wellness program for its students. 2. Self-talk (n) the act or practice of talking to oneself, either aloud or silently and mentally positive self-talk 3. Affirmation /ˌæfəˈmeɪʃn/ (n) a firm or public statement that sth is true or that you support sth strongly She nodded in affirmation. We welcome the government's affirmation of its intention to act. Not everybody h...

By Eden Gillespie https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/cryptocurrency-what-you-should-know-before-you-buy #B2+ #IELTS #Reading #SBS_AU #Business #Finance #Economy 1. Cryptocurrency /ˈkrɪptəʊˌkʌrənsɪ/ (n) a peer-to-peer digital currency that is validated by cryptography; a decentralized digital medium of exhchange which is created, regulated, and exchanged using cryptography and (usuall) open source software As Bitcoin breaches the $1000 mark for the first time, two experts on the crypto-currency clash over whether bust must follow boom. 2. Baby boomer (AE boomer) (n) a person born during a baby boom, especially after the Second World War One big unknown is whether fund managers and their baby boomer clients will panic if the market continues to drop. [Baby boom (n) a period when many more babies are born than usual There wa a baby boom in the UK and the US after the Second World War. The study defined parents aged 30 to 50 as being members of the baby boom generat...

By VOA News https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-jobless-rate-rises-while-job-growth-slows #C2+ #IELTS #Reading #VOA #Business 1. Nonfarm (adj) relating to economic activities not associated with farming 2. Payroll (n) (A) a list of people employed by a company showing the amount of money to be paid to each of them We have 500 people on the payroll. Manufacturing payrolls have dropped by 16,000. (B) (usually singular) the total amount paid in wages by a company The firm is growing fast with a montly payroll of $1 million. They have an annual payroll of #23 million. 3. Modest (adj) not very large, expensive, important, etc. modest improvement/reforms He charged a relatively modest fee. a modest little house The research was carried out on a modest scale. The party made modest gains in teh elections, but nothing like the huge gains that were predicted. a modest increase in costs She had saved a modest amount of money. 4. Revise (v) to change sth because of new information or ideas The college ...

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/14/business/france-wine-production-losses/index.html #C1+ #IELTS #Reading #CNN #Business 1. Frost (n) a weather condition in which the temperature drops below 0°C (=freezing point) so that a thin white layer of ice forms on the ground and other surfaces, especially at night I will be a clear night with some ground frost. a sharp/hard/severe/heavy frost There were ten degrees of frost (= the temperature dropped to -10°C last night) the risk of frost damage to crops Even in May we can sometimes get a late frost. 2. Vineyard /ˈvɪnjəd/ (n) a piece of land where grapes are grown in order to produce wine; a business that produces wine from the grapes it grows in a vineyard Dutch settlers planted the first vineyard when they arrived in 1652. What I have in mind is to offer him a tenancy of the vineyard. Compare Winery 3. Heap (v) if you heap praise, blame, criticism, etc. on sb, you give them a great deal of praise, blame, criticism...

University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences လက်တလော ဝိတ်ချနေတာမို့ ဝိတ်ချတဲ့အကြောင်းတွေ လိုက်ဖတ်ကြည့်နေတာ။ ဒီဆောင်းပါးလေးက စိတ်ဝင်စားစရာ ကောင်းတယ်။ ကိုယ်အလေးချိန် ချတာ နည်းစနစ်ကျဖို့၊ အစားအသောက် ရွေးတာ၊ လျှော့တာတင်မက လေ့ကျင့်ခန်းပါ တွဲဖို့ ဆိုတာတွေ လေ့လာရပါမယ်။ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210506105344.htm #C1+ #IELTS #Reading #ScienceDaily #Health (ps: TextInspector က C1+ လို့ ပြောထားပေမဲ့ ကိုယ့်စိတ်ထဲမှာတော့ Language Level က သိပ် မမြင့်ဘူးလို့ ထင်မိတာပဲ။) {Paragraph 1st 'Half of the Danish ...' မှာ procent မဟုတ်လောက်ပါဘူး။ percent ဖြစ်လောက်ပါတယ်။ ၂ နေရာ တွေ့ပါတယ်။} 1. Sequela /sɪˈkwiːlə/ (plural - sequelae /sɪˈkwiːliː/) 1. any abnormal bodily condition or disease related to or arising from a pre-exiting disease 2. any complication of a disease 2. Cardiovascular /ˌkɑːdiəʊˈvæskjələ(r)/ (adj) (medical) connected with the heart and the blood vessels (=the tubes that carry blood around the body) 3. Infertility /ˌɪnfɜːˈtɪləti/ (n-U) the f...

Annie Murphy Paul investigates how life in the womb shapes who we become. https://www.ted.com/talks/annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born?referrer=playlist-sugata_mitra_s_5_favorite_educ #C2 #IELTS #Listening #TED Ted Talk တွေကို Downalod လုပ်လို့ ရပါတယ်။ Video တွေရဲ့ အောက်က Share > Download ဆိုတာကို နှိပ်ပါ။ Video/Audio ကြိုက်တာရွေးယူလို့ ရပါတယ်။ ဒီနေရာမှာ ယူခွင့် ပေးမထားရင်တော့ တခြားနည်းတွေ ရှာဖွေရမှာပါ။ Ted Talk တွေရဲ့ Transcript (စာ)တွေကိုလည်း ဖတ်လို့ရပါတယ်။ Video တွေရဲ့ အောက်မှာ Transcript ကို တွေ့နိုင်ပါတယ်။ တခြား ဘာသာစကားတွေနဲ့ ဖတ်လို့ ရအောင်လည်း စီစဉ်ပေးထားတာ သဘောကျစရာ ကောင်းပါတယ်။ ဒါပေမဲ့ Listening အတွက် လေ့ကျင့်နေတယ်ဆိုရင်တော့ Transcript တွေကို မဖတ်သင့်ပါဘူး။ နားအလုပ်ကို မျက်စိက သွားလုပ်ရင် နားစွမ်းရည် တိုးတက်မှု နှေးကွေးသွားမှာ စိုးရိမ်လို့ပါ။ ဒါပေမဲ့ အကြိမ်ကြိမ်အခါခါ နားထောင်ပေမဲ့ နားမလည်သေးဘူးဆိုရင်တော့ Transcript ကို ဖတ်ချင် ဖတ်ပါ။ 1. Spirit (n) a state of mind or mood; an attitude We approach the situation in the wrong spirit. 'OK, I'll try'. T...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57016998 #C1+ #IELTS #Reading 1. The Severn (n) a river in South Wales and southwest England which flows from the Welsh mountains to the Bristol Channel 2. Twaite /tweɪt/ (n) herring-like food fish 3. Twaite shad (n) a European shad (fish) with a deep blue back, silvery sides, and some spotting 4. Herring /ˈherɪŋ/ (n) a North Atlantic fish that swims in very large groups and is used for food shoals of herring fresh herring fillets pickled herrings None of them had anything to go for, so they agreed to stay on for the herring. 5. Dwindle (v) to become gradually less or smaller dwindling audiences a dwindling band of supporters Support for the party has dwindled away to nothing. Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20. His money had dwindled away. The elephant population is dwindling. syn: lessen, fall, decline, decrease 6. Weir /wɪə(r)/ (n) a low wall or barrier built across a river in order to control the flow of water or change it...