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In this English lesson, we'll read a BBC News article together.
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And as we read the article, you'll learn advanced English vocabulary in context.
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You'll learn the correct grammar and the correct pronunciation at the same time.
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This is an advanced article discussing a new study on reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
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If you can understand this article, your English is excellent.
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Welcome back to GeForce English.
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Of course, I'm Jennifer.
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Now let's get started.
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Our headline, scientists found a surprising driver of Alzheimer's outside the brain.
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So here, this apostrophe S is because it's Alzheimer's disease.
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So Alzheimer's shows possession.
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However, people just drop the word disease, but they still keep that apostrophe S in spelling and in pronunciation.
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Alzheimer's.
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Alzheimer's.
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Now here, they found what?
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Driver.
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A driver.
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Grammatically, this is a noun.
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Now, yes, a driver is someone who drives a vehicle.
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That is not the meaning in this context.
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In this context, a driver is something that causes or contributes to something else.
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So in this case, the something that causes or contributes, we don't know what it is,
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but we know it's surprising and they will tell us what it is in the article
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but the something else something causes
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or contributes to something else the something else we know it's
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alzheimer's let's look at these examples on the right technology is a driver of
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and then something else so the something is technology this something else is economic growth.
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So technology causes economic growth or contributes to economic growth.
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Stress can be a major driver.
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So major making it sound more significant, a major driver of something else, poor sleep.
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Now, remember this is the noun form, but just like I explained,
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a driver is someone who drives a vehicle.
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So there is a verb form, which is drive.
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And this is on the left -hand side.
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It's very commonly used in a more formal and professional way, commonly used in business or economic discussions.
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Technology drives economic growth.
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So notice to be a driver of something, but here we have something drives something.
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And as a verb, you have to conjugate it.
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So third person singular, it drives economic growth.
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Stress can drive.
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So here's our modal can.
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So we have the base verb poor sleep.
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So now, you know, the noun form and the verb form.
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Don't worry about taking these notes.
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I summarize everything in a free lesson PDF.
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You can find the link in the description.
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Let's keep reading.
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Immune cells that usually defend the body by attacking infected or foreign cells.
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Okay.
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So we're talking about immune cells, a type of cell related to your immune system, their role that usually adverb of frequency.
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So this is the present simple because we know it's a routine action and it's they as the subject.
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So that's why it's, they defend.
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They usually defend the body.
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Defend is another way of saying protect.
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And how do they do that?
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By notice our preposition by.
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So our next verb is in the ing form.
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They defend the body by attacking infected or foreign cells.
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So you have these bad cells that are infected or foreign.
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So both of those are bad adjectives, bad cells.
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So good cells, bad cells.
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That's how you can make it more complex topic, easy to understand.
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Just think about the essence, the main message that they're communicating.
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By attacking infected or foreign cells appear in unusually high numbers in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
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Okay.
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So unusually high numbers in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
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So people who have Alzheimer's disease have higher numbers of immune cells.
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Now, this sounds positive because they usually defend.
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So we'll see.
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With Alzheimer's disease, remember I said often they will just leave out the word disease like we saw in the headline.
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But even when it's left out, you still have that apostrophe S in spelling.
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And like I said, in pronunciation, Alzheimer's.
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Alzheimer's disease and related conditions.
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So, related conditions, meaning conditions that are related to Alzheimer's disease.
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Are you enjoying this lesson?
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personal coach you can look in the description for the link to learn more
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and click on finally fluent academy now let's continue with our lesson evidence suggests these cells
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so if you have these then you have to look back to understand what cells they're talking about
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so these we have to look at what they were talking about before, and they were talking about immune cells.
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So evidence suggests these cells, which are immune cells contribute to neurodegeneration.
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So neuro is the short form for neurological relating to your brain and brain activity.
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Degeneration is negative.
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If something degenerates, it means the state or condition or quality decreases.
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Now, we use this commonly with health, especially with people who have diseases or even with the elderly,
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people who are very old.
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And as we get older, our bodies degenerate.
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It's a fact of life.
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we don't generally use this with just regular colds and flus
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but you can use this with non -medical terminology as well you could say the neighborhood
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so an area of houses as well as streets parks all of
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that would be a neighborhood the neighborhood has degenerated over the last 20 years
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so if you look at it now you look at it 20 years ago and it's gotten worse.
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Now notice here, this is the verb form to degenerate and is conjugated in the present perfect.
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In this case, degeneration is the noun form.
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So you could say the neighborhood is facing degeneration, for example, to use the noun form.
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But in this case, contribute to, remember we need that preposition to, and then something neurodegeneration.
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Let's keep reading.
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But researchers have not known where they originate.
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So where these cells originate or what prompts them to gather in the brain.
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So what prompts them to gather in the brain? is another way of just saying, why do they gather in the brain?
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What causes them to do that?
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So prompt, you can think of it as what causes them, or all of this you can think of as why does this happen?
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Notice the pronunciation here, or what prompts them, or what prompts them, prompts them.
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The T is silent, not because it's a silent letter, because it's impossible to pronounce.
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So native speakers just drop that to smooth out pronunciation, what prompts them.
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But it is not a silent letter in the sense that if you used it in the base form,
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you would say prompt, prompt, prompt.
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And then in the ED form, it becomes id, prompted.
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prompted.
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So that T sound is transferred to the id.
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So it sounds like tid, tid, prompted, prompted you to ask your boss for a transfer.
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What prompted you to ask your boss for a transfer?
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So again, it's just like asking what caused you.
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And another way is just simply why, why did you ask your boss for a transfer is more direct, but it asked the exact same thing.
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Let's keep reading.
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A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis points to an unexpected source outside the brain.
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So an unexpected source that prompts them to gather in the brain comes from outside the brain.
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Let's look at points too, because of course, point is what I'm doing right now.
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So you might hear the teacher pointed to the student in the first row.
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So that could be the direction of my point.
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However, in this case, if something points to something,
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it means that it suggests a cause or an explanation for something.
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So in this case, the study is saying some unexpected source outside the brain is the cause
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or is the explanation for why these immune cells gather in the brain.
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That's what we've learned so far.
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Let's keep reading.
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In experiments with mice, researchers found that T cells receive signals from lymph nodes
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that appear to prepare them to enter the brain
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and contribute to damage because remember they're specifically talking about the brains of people with Alzheimer's
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so contribute to damage the damage caused by Alzheimer's disease now
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remember the ph spelling combination is pronounced as f just like phone.
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It's not normally found at the end of words, but here we have it.
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So it's lymph, lymph, lymph nodes.
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I didn't know what a T cell is.
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I found out it's a type of immune cells.
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I don't overly know what a lymph node is.
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I have a general understanding, but not enough to explain it to someone else because I don't have a medical background.
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You may have a better understanding of what lymph nodes are than I do.
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So we'll understand this with limited knowledge of these terms.
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And that's exactly what native speakers have to do as well in certain contexts, like me reading this article with you.
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So in experiments with mice, researchers found that T cells receive signals from lymph nodes.
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So T cells type of immune cell from lymph nodes
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that I know are outside of the brain generally that appear to prepare them.
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So the immune cells that appear to prepare them using the word appear to is important because it's saying it with uncertainty.
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I might say she appears to be late.
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I'm saying it with uncertainty.
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So we have the verb appear conjugated, and then your infinitive.
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So that appear to prepare them seems possible, but I can't say this as a fact,
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prepare them to enter the brain.
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So to have these immune cells enter the brain and contribute to remember again, our preposition to damage.
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Now, because two is a preposition, if this were a verb, then it would be in the ing form because to is not part of the infinitive.
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It's part of the phrase to contribute to.
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So I might say contribute to damaging the brain.
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So to damage of the brain.
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So now that we've read this additional information, we can go back and try to understand how that connects to what we previously learned,
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because remember they talk about this new study and it points to an unexpected source outside the brain
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that is helping these immune cells gather in the brain,
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which is having a negative effect for patients with Alzheimer's.
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So what is that unexpected source?
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It's the lymph nodes.
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Now, maybe unexpected source because it's outside the brain.
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And based on my limited information, I inferred this, that the,
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oh, the unexpected source, that's the lymph nodes because that is outside the brain.
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And we know that the T cells are the immune cells, and we've already learned that they are going in the brain of the patients with Alzheimer's.
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Let's keep reading.
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When the scientists disrupted those signals.
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So if you disrupt something, it means you interfere, you cause it to not work as properly.
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You cause some disturbance.
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Neurodegeneration was dramatically reduced.
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So that's a very positive thing because neurodegeneration is your brain,
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your brain function starting up here and going down here and up here is good down here is bad.
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So the neurodegeneration was dramatically reduced.
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Maybe instead of going down here, it only went to this point and that was still very positive in brain functionality.
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So dramatically, if you just said was reduced, I don't know where on that scale,
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but it dramatically I can make a better assumption or I have a better picture in my mind.
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So this part is saying when scientists disrupted those signals.
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So we have to go back and figure out what those signals are.
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So the T cells receive signals from lymph nodes.
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Notice that sentence structure, T -cells receive.
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So the lymph nodes are the sender and the T -cells are the receiver.
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So in this case, when the scientists disrupted those signals,
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it's actually the lymph nodes that they disrupted because they're the ones sending the signals to the T -cells,
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the immune cells, which were gathering in unusually high numbers in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's.
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Let's keep reading the findings.
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So the findings from the study, the findings being the evidence,
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the research, the results, the findings reveal a previously unrecognized immune pathway.
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So just think a pathway.
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If you're walking, there's a path and it allows you to walk more easily.
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An immune pathway is where cells can travel more easily in your body.
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The findings reveal a previously unrecognized immune pathway
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that may offer a way to slow or potentially halt damage associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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That's amazing.
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If for anyone reading this, that's a positive thing to hear.
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so to slow of course you know what
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that means you can slow a disease you can slow an
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illness you can slow a negative effect a lot of people are trying to slow aging myself included to slow
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or potentially halt well I'd like to stop aging
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so that's what halt means to halt to stop damage to halt damage associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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Now, remember with the word appear, I said it's very important that they included that word because they're presenting it with some uncertainty.
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Same with the word may.
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If you say may offer, that doesn't mean that it will offer.
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So may offer a way to slow or potentially halt.
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It's a possibility.
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but still it's certainly a positive thing to hear let's keep reading dr david m holtzman said the discovery
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so what we just talked about before is the discovery is especially intriguing
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intriguing that's intriguing so intriguing this is an adjective to be intriguing is something that causes you to be interested,
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causes you to think more fully or strategically about something.
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So the discovery is especially intriguing because it identifies a disease related process.
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So not a disease, a disease related process.
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Notice how, when I said that I pause after disease, it made it seem like this is the noun, but it's not.
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Process is the noun because it identifies a process.
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What type of process?
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A process related to disease.
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So this is why your delivery, how you say something is important.
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I paused at the wrong point.
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It may have created a miscommunication, a disease related process that begins outside the brain.
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Because remember, this is connection to the lymph nodes, the lymph nodes that are sending the signal to the T cells, which are a type of immune cell
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and telling those immune cells to gather in the brain
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that could make it possible again could is a modal of possibility
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that could make it possible so it's just an an option it's a possibility
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that could make it possible to target mechanisms that are easier to reach and better understood.
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So these mechanisms are easier to reach because they're outside the brain.
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Your brain is not easy to reach.
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It's surrounded by a skull and is very vulnerable.
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So these other mechanisms could be easier to reach compared to your brain and better understood.
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And in this context, a mechanism is the process.
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So that mechanism of how a lymph node communicates with a T cell,
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an immune cell, that is a process, that's the mechanism.
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And if they want to target it, it means that is what they are trying to address or solve or study even.
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here we have quotation marks so these are the words of someone
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that someone the only person that's been mentioned is dr david m holtzman
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so that's what we would assume unless we receive other information
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one of the issues in developing treatments for neurological diseases
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so diseases related to your brain function is
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that you need to engineer your treatment so that it gets into the brain and past the blood brain barrier.
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So this is again, reinforcing that easier to reach and even potentially better understood.
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But we might not actually need to get the drugs into the central nervous system
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so your central nervous system flows into your brain of course to mitigate neurodegeneration
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if you want to if you mitigate the neurodegeneration well then you slow it
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or you stop it you halt it holtzman said
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and yes direct quotations and here we have another modal of possibility in this case might.
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So our main verb is separated by an adverb and a negative might need,
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might not actually need to get the drugs into the central nervous system.
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Let's keep reading.
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There are lots of ways to manipulate T cells.
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So remember we learned that T cells are a type of immune cell that have been studied extensively.
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So this could relate to the better understood.
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If they've been studied extensively,
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well then it means they have studied them a lot and extensively is just a more formal way of saying a lot.
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And it certainly does sound more formal,
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have been studied extensively and that are approved treatments for other diseases,
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but many haven't yet been explored for neurodegenerative diseases.
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Okay.
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They haven't yet been explored.
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Explore meaning they haven't taken this treatment and used it for this specific case
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because they didn't know there was a connection between the treatment and that specific disease.
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But in this, in this study, it seems like they have evidence to explore that as a potential.
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As I was writing a lot, I thought of another adverb that sounds more formal than a lot,
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but still sounds every day, which is thoroughly that have been studied thoroughly.
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Make sure you You get that unvoiced teach thoroughly, thoroughly a lot, a lot casual, very frequently used.
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I use it every single day.
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And so do all native speakers a lot, thoroughly, extensively in order of casual to formal.
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And that's the end of our article.
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This was a challenge for me.
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I'm sure this was a challenge for you.
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Take it slow, review it multiple times.
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Now I'll read the article from start to finish, and you can focus on my pronunciation.
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Scientists found a surprising driver of Alzheimer's outside the brain.
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Immune cells that usually defend the body by attacking infected
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or foreign cells appear in unusually high numbers in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and related conditions.
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Evidence suggests these cells contribute to neurodegeneration, but researchers have not known where they originate or what prompts them to gather in the brain.
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A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis points to an unexpected source outside the brain.
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In experiments with mice, researchers found that T cells receive signals from lymph nodes
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that appear to prepare them to enter the brain and contribute to damage.
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When the scientists disrupted those signals, neurodegeneration was dramatically reduced.
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The findings reveal a previously unrecognized immune pathway
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that may offer a way to slow or potentially halt damage associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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Dr. David M.
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Holtzman said the discovery is especially intriguing because it identifies a disease related process that begins outside the brain.
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That could make it possible to target mechanisms that are easier to reach and better understood.
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One of the issues in developing treatments for neurological diseases is
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that you need to engineer your treatment so that it gets into the brain and past the blood brain barrier.
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But we might not actually need to get the drugs into the central nervous system to mitigate neurodegeneration.
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Holtzman said there are lots of ways to manipulate t -cells
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that have been studied extensively and that are approved treatments for other diseases but many haven't yet been explored for neurodegenerative diseases.
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คำศัพท์คำอ่านความหมาย
verb คำนาม/vɝb/คำกริยา, กริยา
hungry คำคุณศัพท์/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/หิว, ท้องเลว
defend คำกริยา/dɪˈfɪnd/ป้องกัน
lesson คำนาม/ˈlɛs.ən/บทเรียน
mechanism คำนาม/ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/กลไก, เครื่อง
noun คำนาม/naʊn/นาม, คำนาม
scientist คำนาม/ˈsaɪəntəst/นักวิทยาศาสตร์
pronunciation คำนาม/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/การออกเสียง, เสียงอ่าน
explore คำกริยา/ɪkˈsploɹ/สำรวจ
researcher คำนาม/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/นักวิจัย
discovery คำนาม/dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/การค้นพบ
silent คำคุณศัพท์/ˈsaɪ̯lənt/เงียบ, นิ่ง
reveal คำกริยา/ɹɪˈviːl/เปิดเผย
experiment คำนาม/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/การทดลอง
mouse คำนาม/maʊs/หนู

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  • Are you enjoying this lesson?
  • What prompted you to ask your boss for a transfer?
  • That's what we've learned so far.
  • I found out it's a type of immune cells.
  • I don't overly know what a lymph node is.

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โครงสร้างในวิดีโอ
Present perfect have/has + กริยาช่อง 3 — เหตุการณ์ในอดีตที่ยังเกี่ยวข้องกับปัจจุบันhas degenerated · have not known · we've learned
Passive voice be + กริยาช่อง 3 — เน้นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น ไม่ใช่ผู้กระทำare infected · is conjugated · is transferred
Relative clauses who / which + อนุประโยค — ข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับคนหรือสิ่งของsomeone who drives · form, which is · people who have

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ผู้พูดใช้รูปย่อและรูปลดเสียง 40 ครั้ง เช่น don't, they're, haven't ให้พูดแบบสั้นตามที่ได้ยิน

  • เสียง “th”: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, smooth /smuːð/
  • เสียง “sh” และ “zh”: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, unusually /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/
  • คำยาว — ลงเสียงหนักให้ถูกพยางค์: unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, extensively /ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv.li/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/

เสียงที่คนไทยมักออกเสียงยาก:

  • เสียงท้ายคำ — ออกเสียงให้ครบ ไม่เปลี่ยนเป็นตัวสะกดแบบไทย: formal /ˈfɔɹməl/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, mouse /maʊs/, neurological /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/
  • /v/ — ไม่ใช่ /w/ ให้ฟันบนแตะริมฝีปากล่าง: verb /vɝb/, extensively /ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv.li/, discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, approve /əˈpɹuːv/
  • /z/ — เสียงก้อง ไม่ใช่ /s/: mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, pause /pɔːz/, possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/

วิธีฝึกกับวิดีโอนี้

  1. ฟังวิดีโอให้จบหนึ่งรอบโดยยังไม่ต้องพูด แล้วจดคำที่ยังไม่รู้จัก
  2. พูดตามทีละประโยคด้วยความเร็วปกติ ทำซ้ำแต่ละประโยคจนจังหวะของคุณตรงกับผู้พูด
  3. อัดเสียงตัวเองแล้วเทียบกับต้นฉบับ โดยสังเกตคำอย่าง verb, hungry, defend เป็นพิเศษ

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