Vocabulary 8
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| | 176) landmark speech
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| | 177) confront one’s shortcomings
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| | 178) eradicate
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| | 179) years of mistrust
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| | 180) lay the groundwork
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| | 181) (be) off-key
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| | 182) hit the right note
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| | 183) a beacon of Islamic learning
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| | 184) assalaamu alaykum
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| | 185) have a huge build up
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| | 186) redefine the relationship
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| | 187) (be) not exclusive
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| | 188) (be) used as proxies
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| | 189) unequivocally prohibited
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| | 190) build Jewish neighbourhoods
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| | 191) land claimed by Palestinians
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| | 192) undermine efforts
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| | 193) avoid some topic carefully
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| | 196) face challenges in good faith
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| | 197) reserve one’s final judgment
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| 1. Speak about B. Obama’s policy in the Middle East.
Work out a declaration on US-Middle East cooperation in the sphere of education.
Vocabulary 9
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| | 199) a space mission
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| | 200) launched in Kazakhstan
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| | 201) Earth-like planets
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| | 202) outside the solar system
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| | 204) the brightness of stars
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| | 205) hundreds of thousands
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| | 206) characteristic twinkle
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| | 207) Russian-built Soyuz rocket
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| | 208) blast off
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| | 209) Baikonur Cosmodrome
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| | 210) a satellite
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| | 211) spend some years in orbit
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| | 212) onboard
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| | 213) measure minute changes
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| | 214) detect planets
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| | 216) an eclipse
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| | 217) close to impossible
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| | 218) exoplanets
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| | 219) ground-based telescopes
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Find information about the latest multinational space missions and speak about them.
2. Think about possible tasks of such a mission in a five years. How can the goals change with time?
Vocabulary 10
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| | 221) an astronaut
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| | 222) return from one’s stint
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| | 223) on the space station
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| | 224) age-related osteoporosis
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| | 225) set in
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| | 226) crew members
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| | 227) bone mass
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| | 228) round trip
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| | 229) work on a solution
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| | 230) on a regular basis
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| | 231) deprived of gravity
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| | 232) a model for ageing
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| | 233) weight bearing
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| | 234) as we age
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| | 238) accelerated ageing
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| | 239) rapid ageing decline
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| | 241) subtle spring
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| | 243) femur
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| | 244) thighbone
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| | 245) bone density loss
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| | 246) zero gravity
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| 1. What is being done by scientists to prevent damage to cosmonauts’ health?
Discuss the possible recommendations to space tourists
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