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00:00 – Welcome
00:19 – Article Review
04:06 – Free Lesson PDF
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24:47 – Read Along
TRANSCRIPT:
Welcome back to JForrest English. I’m Jennifer. And today we’re going to read a news article together, an advanced news article, so you can learn all of the natural expressions, advanced vocabulary, and complex grammar, naturally and easily. Let’s get started!
Our headline, nice and short, “Life on Mars”. A very interesting topic. A new study published in the journal Science shows definitive evidence of organic matter on the surface of Mars, organic matter, simply means living matter. Matter that is living. For example, in this picture, it looks like there’s some green. when you see green, you think plants. So it looks like living matter, organic matter. Now, let’s take a look at this. Shows evidence, shows definitive evidence. When I see this I say, wow definitive evidence. Definitive is an adjective that means firm, final or complete. So this evidence is firm, it’s final. You can think of it as not to be questioned. So you can’t question this evidence. It’s firm and final. So real evidence, it makes it a lot stronger. Of organic matter on the surface of Mars. Now, notice here, we have the journal Science and you see that science has a capital S. This is because it’s a proper noun, and you need to capitalize the first letter of a proper noun, proper noun. And it’s a proper noun because the name of the journal is science. That’s why it has a capital S. But if you were just talking about this subject science, I love science class, you don’t need to capitalize it because in this case it’s not a proper noun. The data was collected by NASA’s nuclear-powered rover Curiosity. Again, this is a great example, Curiosity, which you probably know as a noun. Curiosity is a good thing when you’re a student. But in this case, it’s the name of the Rover. The name of the Rover is Curiosity and that’s why we have a capital first letter. It’s a proper noun. It confirms earlier findings that the Red Planet once contained carbon-based compounds. I’ll be honest with you, I’m not exactly sure what a carbon-based compound is. It’s a compound that contains carbon, that’s all I know about that. Red Planet is another name for the planet Mars because it is red. So, when you see Red Planet, you know they’re talking about Mars. These compounds, they’re talking about the carbon-based compounds, also called organic molecules are essential ingredients for life as scientists understand it. Now notice how they explain what these compounds are, or why they’re important, because the average person, like me who doesn’t have a scientific background, has no idea what a carbon-based compound is. So they explain what this is. So now I know, okay. Essential, meaning very important, extremely important.
Important, and not just important, very important. Essential ingredients for life as scientists understand it. So now I know you can’t have life without these carbon-based compounds and they have found definitive evidence that these compounds exist on Mars, the red planet, essentially saying that life on Mars is possible. I’ve summarized all of the lesson notes and you can find them in the free lesson PDF. You can look for the link in the description or in the first comment. Let’s continue. The organic molecules were found in Mars’s Gale Crater a large area that may have been a watery Lake over 3 billion years ago. The Rover encountered traces of the molecule in rocks, extracted from the area. When you extract something, it means you remove it or take it out. So they have a rock, and within this rock, there are molecules, so they took those molecules out. They extracted it. This is also the terminology you use if you need to get a tooth removed.
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