Hello everybody,
At the beginning of the class, we answered the following questions in pairs and after that we shared our point of view:
1) Have you ever been in a clinical test? Do you know anybody? Who has?
2) How long do you time a test for new drugs may last?
3) What could go wrong? Have you heard of any controversial cases?
We watched a video from an interesting Internet site called TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). Ted is an organization known for its conferences dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading"("Ideas dignas de difundir") where we can find other videos with subtitles to practice English http://www.ted.com/
The video was -regarding +from a conference about a new technology with ships to replicate different organs of +the human body. This technology could be useful to develop clinical testing
Afterwards we answered in pairs the following questions and then with the whole group:
1) It is too good to be true?
2) Do you find it misgiving in any way?
Interesting expressions extracted from the video were analyzed in class.These were.
1) It fails more than it succeeds ("Falla más veces que lo que acierta")
2) R&D "Research & development"
3) The tools that we have are failing us. ("Las herramientas que tenemos nos están fallando")
Be careful with verbs as:
- To suggestà he suggests her buying a new car.
- To recommendà Can you recommend me a restaurant (to me)?.
- To explainà the teacher explains us the lesson (to us).
4) Guess what. They don't ("Sabes que/ que quieres que diga"). To express contrast
5) It's nothing like what they have in the body ("No se parece en nada a lo que hay en el cuerpo")
6) However, more often than not, animal model fait to predict what will happen in human. (frase hecha para decir "las mas de las veces/ la mayoría de las veces").
7) Build and engineer a home away from home ("Un Segundo hogar, es como estar en su casa, una segunda casa o sitio confortable")
8) The mechanical strain that the cells experience in our bodies ("La tensión mecánica que las células experimentan en nuestros cuerpos")
9) We could, for example, mimic infection, where we add bacterial cells into the lung (to Mimic = to replicate/ imitate)
10) Yeah mucus. Yuck.
b. Snot: mucus produced in the nose ("Moco, o cosas duras que están dentro de la nariz"). Pronunciation /snɑːt/ i
11) An aerosol drug. ("Inhalador ").
12) Does it change the beating of your heart? ("Latidos del corazón").
13) A game changer ("Cambio de las reglas de juego")
14) The pharmaceutical industry. Pronunciation:/ˌfɑː.məˈsuː.tɪ.kəl/
15) A full-blown attack ("Completamente desarrollado")
16) Put the cartridge into the machine just like you would a CD and away you go. Plug and play, easy.
a. Put the cartridge into the machine just like you would (put) a CD. (" El verbo to put puede omitirse en la segunda frase (put), por ser igual al de la primera frase")
b. and away you go: ("A volar/ se acabo").
c. Some of these adverse drug reactions can be fatal. ("Mortal, que alguien muere")
Finally, we watched the video again to answer these questions:
1) How do the three different fluidic channels in the chip work?
-Air channel/blood channel/vacuum channel.
2) Which different body organs are mentioned /shown to be replicated on chips?
-Heart, lung, gut/intestine/bowels, kidney, skin, liver, bone marrow
3) Which different diseases are mentioned?
-Ebola, SARS, bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, headache, allergy.
- Bronchitis, pronunciation: /brɒŋˈkaɪ.tɪs/
4) What are the difficulties in testing drugs for children?
Drugs are -[clinical testing] +[clinically tested] in adults.
5) What is the ultimate advantage for the individuals?
Personalized medicine
Other words:
Example:
2) To be in good health, in poor health or in bad health: we used the following expression to express the condition of the body and the state of being well or bad. Example: I am in good health.
- In good health (adj) :in a good physical condition ("sano, con buena salud").
- In bad health (adj): in bad physical condition,(" mala salud, enfermo").
The teacher emphasized that these expression are used with the preposition IN.
That is all for now. See you soon.
Luzmery
Pd: Lorena: Try to watch the video and give us your opinion as +a biologist.
