Discovery Unit 10

Exploration & Discovery•Explore: go around a new place to find

out what’s there

•Discover: find something

•Scan: look around an area to try to find something

•Detect: discover or notice something, especially something that’s difficult to see or hear

•Reach: arrive somewhere

•Map: make a map of a particular area of land

•Topography: a study of natural features (river, mountain) of an area

•Locate: find the exact position of something or someone

•Search for: try to find something or someone

•Do research into: study a subject in detail in order to discover new information about it

•Find evidence of: discover something that makes you believe something is true or exists

Topography

What are they finding?

Radio Telescope

Dante II, volcano robot

Weather Balloon

Satellite

Vocabulary•Acclaim: praise from a lot of people

•JK Rowling’s books are critically acclaimed.

•Accomplishment: something really good that you succeed in doing

•Benefit: something that helps/gives you advantages

•That medicine offers you no benefit.

•Compulsory: when something is compulsory, you must do it because of a rule/law

•It’s compulsory to pay tax.

•Considerable: large or important enough to have an effect/impact

•Life’s work: work which is important that someone gives a lot of time and effort to achieving it

•Ang San Suu Kyi’s life’s work is her fight for democracy and human right in Myanmar.

•Obliged to do something: forced to do it

•Civilians are obliged to identify themselves before entering the premises.

•Positive: better feeling toward a situation

•Right: allowed by the law

•Citizens of over 18 have the right to vote.

•Version: someone’s description of what happened

•In one version, the truck came out of nowhere and hit the pole.