How is glass made? – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.(ringing) - Hi, it's Doug
2.I recently came across this unbelievable video
3.It was taken at a hotel in Texas where on the roof of the hotel they have this pool that hangs off the edge and it has a glass bottom
4.Look at this
5.Would you go in there
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B1)
smartphones
B1A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.
Example:
"or eyeglasses, no skyscrapers or smartphones"
difference
B2The quality of being different.
Example:
"You can choose from what's the difference"
beneath
A2Below or underneath.
Example:
"melted the sand beneath it?"
without
A2Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without.
Example:
"Without glass, we'd have no windows,"
glasses
A2To apply fibreglass to.
Example:
"no windshields for our cars, no drinking glasses"
artists
A2A person who creates art.
Example:
"Artists can make amazing sculptures with glass."
campfire
A2A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
Example:
"Could it be that someone long ago had a campfire"
there's
A2A A2-level word commonly used in this context.
Example:
"there's a lunar eclipse that's going to happen."
eclipses
A2An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
Example:
"and chose three questions about lunar eclipses"
between
A2A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.
Example:
"between a solar and lunar eclipse,"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| smartphones | B1 | A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone. |
| difference | B2 | The quality of being different. |
| beneath | A2 | Below or underneath. |
| without | A2 | Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without. |
| glasses | A2 | To apply fibreglass to. |
| artists | A2 | A person who creates art. |
| campfire | A2 | A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing. |
| there's | A2 | A A2-level word commonly used in this context. |
| eclipses | A2 | An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter. |
| between | A2 | A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics. |
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