Pre-reading questions:
I will read each question. Then, please answer them.
講師がそれぞれの質問を読むので答えましょう。
- How do you take care of your skin?
- Have you ever heard of a device that functions like our skin?
Vocabulary:
I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me.
単語、意味、例文を読みます。講師に続いて音読しましょう。
- pleasant /PLEZ-uhnt/
- complicated /KOM-pli-key-tid/
- invent /in-VENT/
- mention /MEN-shuhn/
- development /dih-VEL-uhp-muhnt/
[adjective] – enjoyable, attractive, friendly, or easy to like
Harold had a pleasant vacation in Europe for months.
[adjective] – involving a lot of different parts, in a way that is difficult to understand
The rules are complicated to follow.
[verb] – to design and/or create something that has never been made before
The first safety razor was invented by company founder King C. Gillette in 1903.
[verb] – to speak about something quickly, giving little detail or using few words
My wife mentioned seeing you the other day.
[noun] – the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced
They worked together for the development of the community.
Article reading:
Please read the whole article. Then, I will check your pronunciation and intonation.
記事を音読しましょう。講師はあなたの発音とイントネーションを確認します。
Pain may not be pleasant, but it is needed for survival. A complicated protection device, pain is the body’s way of letting us know that something’s incorrect and that we should take an immediate response to avoid destruction. It can cause pain-avoiding responses without will or conscious control through reflexes, for example when we feel something hot.
Now, specialists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have invented a manufactured skin that mimics this device and reacts to pain stimuli. They used silicone rubber to make it; it has the function of actual skin and is also very relative to the skin in its structural features, mentions Madhu Bhaskaran, an engineering professor at RMIT University and the project’s head researcher. It could start innovative developments in robotics and prosthetics.
Similar to the actual skin, the manufactured version is made to respond when pressure, heat or cold exceed a pain threshold. Its surface layers sandwich electronic circuits studded with sensors, which act to stimuli. According to Bhaskaran, the fascinating thing about our body is that it operates by sending electrical signs into the central nervous system.
Now, specialists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have invented a manufactured skin that mimics this device and reacts to pain stimuli. They used silicone rubber to make it; it has the function of actual skin and is also very relative to the skin in its structural features, mentions Madhu Bhaskaran, an engineering professor at RMIT University and the project’s head researcher. It could start innovative developments in robotics and prosthetics.
Similar to the actual skin, the manufactured version is made to respond when pressure, heat or cold exceed a pain threshold. Its surface layers sandwich electronic circuits studded with sensors, which act to stimuli. According to Bhaskaran, the fascinating thing about our body is that it operates by sending electrical signs into the central nervous system.
True or False:
Read the sentences and identify if they are true or false based on the article.
文章を読んで、記事に基づいて正誤を答えましょう。
- Pain is not needed for survival.
- Specialists at RMIT University in Austria, have invented a manufactured skin that mimics this device and reacts to pain stimuli.
- Madhu Bhaskaran is an engineering professor at RMIT University and the project’s head researcher.
- Similar to the actual skin, the manufactured version is made to respond when pressure, heat or cold exceed a pain threshold.
- The fascinating thing about our body is that it operates by sending electrical signs into the central nervous system.
Fill in the blanks:
Choose the correct word from the table then fill in the blanks.
適切な言葉を選んで空欄を埋めましょう。
| pleasant | complicated | invent | mention | development |
- Math is a very _____ subject.
- She _____ that she would never hurt me.
- There is a lot of infrastructure _____ in our place.
- Alexander Graham Bell _____ the telephone.
- She had a _____ time with her friends today.