tailieunhanh - Luyện thi IELTS (p54)

Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện thi ielts (p54)', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | TRANSCRIPT EPISODE 9 ADHD Hello. I m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English IELTS preparation. Today we re going to talk about acronyms abbreviations and names and then we ll do a bit of vocabulary building as well. The boy in today s clip is about to have a test to see whether he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. While you re watching listen for some other abbreviations. How do you know if your child does have ADHD An EEG brain scan helps answer that say the Swinburne researchers. Jacques Duff is a psychologist and one of Richard s PhD students. A computer programme will compare Xavier s brain scan with a database of scans of ADHD sufferers. If he does have the condition the ADHD diagnosis will be automatically triggered. Xavier was having a test to see if he has ADHD . ADHD is an abbreviation. X An abbreviation is the short form of a phrase or a word. We often abbreviate phrases using the first letter of each word. Notice that you use capitals letters for these types of abbreviations. ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADHD is much quicker and easier to say and to write. You might recognise some of these common abbreviations UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object . ASAP means As Soon As Possible . Other common abbreviations are PC Personal Computer TV for Television and CD-ROM - that s a Compact Disc with a Read Only Memory 1 . . INSEARCH ặ technology SYDNEY Page 1 of 4 Notice that each letter in the abbreviation is pronounced separately but the last letter is pronounced more strongly because it carries the primary stress. So we say USA ASaP AbC and tV . Listen for another abbreviation here. Jacques Duff is a psychologist and one of Richard s PhD students. Jacques Duff is one of Richard s PhD students. PhD stands for Doctor of Philosophy. Another abbreviation you ll recognise is IELTS . IELTS stands for International English Language Testing System . This form of abbreviation is called an acronym . With an .