Date: 01/10/2024
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Student: Dawoon
Topic: Groundbreaking procedure allows heart repairs to grow with children, new study shows
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/02/health/partial-heart-transplant-growth/index.html
Sentence Construction:
X Pet owner don’t like walk.>> Pet owners don't like to take a walk with their pet.
X We already a lot of food.>> We already have a lot of food.
X I sorry to my dog.>> I feel sorry for my dog.
Pronunciation:
*stroller [strow·lr]
*walk [waak]
Build Lexicon:
*immunosuppression:= is a reduction in the capacity of the immune system to respond effectively to foreign antigens, including surface antigens on tumor cells.
Example:=It eliminates the need for a donor organ and
*subset:=(n.) a part of a larger group of related things.
Example:= Computer vendors usually only support a small subset of the disks available.
Discover Idioms & Expressions:
*domino transplant:= the first child, born with a weak heart muscle that can’t adequately pump blood, gets a whole donated heart while the second baby gets the healthy blood vessels and valves from the first infant. In a split-root transplant, the functioning parts of a heart are donated to two infants.
Example:= a domino donor is a patient with lung disease who donated their heart to a heart transplant candidate in the process of receiving.
* truncus arteriosus:=is a birth defect of the heart.
Example:= the baby is born with a single common blood vessel called the truncus arteriosus.
Prepare:
* Read the lexicon, idioms and expressions. Then, construct sentences for each and share them
in class.
* Pick a podcast and listen to it daily.
* Prepare for the next article.
