Plants on Steroids: Key Missing Link Discovered

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 438.

A. Read the text below using a dictionary.

II. Reading Activities.

C. Match the following words with their definitions.

B. Read and discuss the questions.

A. Practise the pronunciation of the following words and memorize them.

I. Pre-reading Activities.

UNIT FOUR

• steroid /ˈstɪərɔɪd/

• molecule /ˈmɔlɪkjuːl/

• cabbage /ˈkæbɪdʒ/

• synthesis /ˈsɪnθɪsɪs/

• pathway /ˈpɑːθweɪ/

• nucleus /ˈnjuːklɪəs/

• glycogen /ˈglaɪkədʒ(ə)n/

• anchor /ˈæŋkə/

• kinase /ˈkaɪneɪz/

• mustard /ˈmʌstəd/

• paradigm /ˈpærədaɪm/

→ The text below is called “Plants on Steroids: Key Missing Link Discovered”. What in your opinion might be the key missing link?

→ Have you ever heard anything about “plants on steroids”?

→ What recent discoveries in the area are known to you?

1. avenue A. the act of passing along by stages

2. relay B. a method or way of doing something; a possibility

3. infertile C. to find or show the connection between two or more things

4. degeneration D. an amount of something positive, such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied

5. yield (n.) E. the process by which something gets worse

6. link (n.) F. prevented from growing or developing to the usual extent

7. stunt ed G. bond, connection

8. pathway H. a substance which is used to provide heat or power, usually by being burned

9. fuel I. a set of connected chemical reactions in biology

10. relate J. not productive