(Supplementary Materials for Specific Textbooks--Q: Skills for Success: Listening and Speaking 5)
1. What university is Jill Bolte Taylor at now? What school was Jill Bolte Taylor at when she had her stroke?
2. In what year did Jill Bolte Taylor have a stroke?
3. What is the name of the book that Jill Bolte Taylor wrote?
4. Where did Jill Bolte Taylor experience a sharp pain?
5. Despite experiencing this sharp pain, what did Jill Bolte Taylor attempt to get on with?
6. Instead of finding answers or information, what did Jill Bolte Taylor meet with?
7. When most people think about the brain, what in fact are they actually thinking about?
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David Inge
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Jill Bolte Taylor
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neuroanatomist, Indiana, Indianapolis
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Harvard
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1. Good morning. Welcome to the second hour of Focus 580 (00:04--00:08)
2. This is our morning talk program; my name’s David Inge. (00:08-00:011)
3. In this hour of Focus 580 we’ll be talking with Jill Bolte Taylor (00:11-00:15)
4. she is a neuroanatomist. She’s affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. (00:15-00:22)
5. And back in 1996, she was teaching and doing research at the Harvard Medical School (00:22-00:27)
David Inge, Host: Good morning. Welcome to the second hour of Focus 580. This is our morning talk program; my name’s David Inge. . . . In this hour of Focus 580 we’ll be talking with Jill Bolte Taylor; she is a neuroanatomist. She’s affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. And back in 1996, she was teaching and doing research at the Harvard Medical School when she had a stroke, a very serious and severe stroke. On that day, as she writes in her book My Stroke of Insight, on that day she woke up with a sharp pain behind one eye. She tried to get on with her usual morning activities, but clearly she knew something was very wrong. She wasn’t sure what. Uh, instead of finding answers or information, she writes she “met with a growing sense of peace.” She writes that she felt “enfolded by a blanket of tranquil euphoria.”
We should talk a little bit more about the, the structure of the brain, and, and I think that probably people have an idea in their head of what the brain looks like. And that I think the thing that people think about as being the brain is in fact the cortex, the cerebral—
Jill Bolte Taylor: Right.
Inge: —cortex, which is that part of the brain that sets us apart from a lot of other living things and in fact maybe sets us apart in degree from other mammals as well.
the second hour: This means that the radio show is 2 hours long, and this is the start of hour number 2
Focus 580: A radio show on public radio in Illinois state (in the US) from 1981 to 2014.
talk program: is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music
David Inge: the host of Focus 580 from 1981 until his retirement in 2012
Jill Bolte Taylor: an American neuroanatomist, author, and inspirational public speaker.
neuroanatomy: the study of the structure and organization of the nervous system (including the brain)
neuroanatomist: someone who studies neuroanatomy
affiliated with: to be officially connected to, or a member of, a larger organization:
a college affiliated with the University of London
Indiana: a state in the central US, whose capital city is Indianapolis
university: What you study after graduating from high school. In American English, a university refers to a group of schools. At least one of these schools is a college where students receive a bachelor's degree. The other schools in a university are"graduate" (also known as "postgraduate") schools where students receive advanced degrees.
Indiana University: a system of public universities in the state of Indiana.
medicine: the science of curing and preventing illness and injury:
to study medicine
Indianapolis: the capital and largest city of the US state of Indiana
back in: If you talk about something that happened back in the past or several years back, you are emphasizing that it happened quite a long time ago.
The story starts back in 1950, when I was five.
research: detailed study of a subject in order to discover new information:
They are doing research into the effects of passive smoking.
Harvard: a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
medical: relating to medicine and different ways of curing illness:
a medical student
Harvard Medical School: the graduate medical school of Harvard University
stroke (Verb): a sudden problem in your brain that changes the flow of blood and makes you unable to move part of your body:
to have a stroke
stroke (Noun): (a line or mark made) by a movement of a pen or pencil when writing or a brush when painting:
With a few bold strokes, she signed her name.
have a stroke: to experience a stroke
serious: A serious problem or situation is bad and makes people worry:
a serious illness
severe: extremely bad:
a severe headache
a stroke of: an expression in English used to describe an instance of something. It only collocates with certain nouns--either those describing luck (a stroke of bad luck, a stroke of good luck) or ideas (a stroke of genius, a stroke of insight)
By a stroke of luck, someone else was walking along the trail and heard my shouts for help.
insight: (the ability to have) a clear, deep, and sometimes sudden understanding of a complicated problem or situation:
It was an interesting book, full of fascinating insights into human relationships.
My Stroke of Insight: full title is My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientistʼs Personal Journey. Originally published in 2008, it is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning book written by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist. In it, she tells of her experience in 1996 of having a stroke in her left hemisphere and how the human brain creates our perception of reality and includes tips about how Dr. Taylor rebuilt her own brain from the inside out. It is available in 29 languages.
The title of the book is a deliberate play on the two meanings of the word stroke. “Stroke” can mean either a problem with the blood flow to your brain, but “stroke of” collocates with nouns describing ideas. The title is meant to show that Jill Bolte Taylor actually gained new insight into how the brain works by having a stroke.
pain: an unpleasant physical feeling caused by an illness or injury:
I felt a sharp pain in my foot.
a sharp pain: a sudden, short, strong pain
get on with: to continue doing something, especially work:
Get on with your homework.
clearly: used to show that you think something is obvious or certain:
Clearly he's very talented.
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