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00012921 Yeah, I’m just jetlagged

00044117 So you really kicked ass in that football pool, huh?

00050316 My kid’s been having a problem at school, Attention Defecit thing?

00050700 He been diagnosed yet?

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00051104 I was wondering if you could take a look at him?

00070217 I took his temperature again since I called. It was just a touch over 100.

00082513 You had a seizure this morning Beth. Have you had something like that before?

00085019 So um. Despite all our efforts, she failed to respond

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00094820 Some people get a disease and live. Some people get sicker and die.

00100014 But, I can’t guarantee its gonna tell you any more than I can.

00102711 Mr. Emholf. There are grief councelors who are very helpful with this sort of passing.

00110322 Hang up the phone and call 911 right now. Right now. 911

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00115805 What we are hearing from Beijing is that the outbreak is contained to the Chrysanthemum complex in Hong Kong.

00123822 They are using the same protocols established for SARS.

00124123 They are quaranteening the complex and screening for symptoms.

00124921 Its going to spread.

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00141105 I want you to move away from the table.

00145606 What’s your single overriding communications objective?

00145914 We’re isolationg the sick and quaranteening those who we believe were exposed.

00155812 Your Dad’s in isolation. You can go up to the window. You pick up the phone. You can talk to him.

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00175618 Maybe fomites too.

00175915 It refers to transmissions from surfaces.

00180607 Three to five times every waking minute. In between we are touching door knobs, water fountains, elevator buttons, and each other.

00190317 For every person who gets sick, how many other people are they likely to infect?

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00192412 Now, we call that number the R naught.

00192916 R stands for the reproductive rate of the virus.

00194416 Sometimes people can be contageous without even having symptoms. We need to know that too.

00245508 That’s OK. The incubation period is less than that.

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00255901 It’s quite possible that you have come in contact with an infectious disease and that you are highly contageous. Do you understand?

00284201 Here is a model of the virus and how it attaches to it’s host.

00362500 The WHO estimates the number of people infected worldwide to be 8 million.

Click on the page with the sentence of interest. Then on that page you can click the video with the sentence you like.  The video will play in a continuous loop. First the sentence witll play, followed by a pause. Students are encouraged to listen to the sentence a few times, then repeat the sentence in the same manner as the actor in the video.

This system requires you to listen to the complete sentence, and then repeat the sentence during the pauses. You will have to memorize the sentence. Listen for pauses, changes in rhythm, change in tones and enphasis on vowel sounds. The important parts of the sentences are typically highlighted by pauses, changes in rhythm or tones, as well as loudness. All should be practiced until natural.

After the rhythm, tones, and loudness are practiced, you can substitute your own words and thoughts into the sentence structures that you have just learned.