Vocabulary
Academic Word List
- advocating
- briefly
- construction
- inhibits
- mechanism
- reverse
- sequence
- series
- specific
- terminal
- transmits
- triggering
Other Vocabulary
- heightened
- impulses
- mass
- pathway
- properties
- reaction
- sensory
- stimuli
- tentacle
Exercise
Pre-Listening
Use the questions to begin a discussion. Try to be sure everyone in your group gives their opinion and explains why they hold that opinion before moving on to the next question.
- Have you ever found yourself doing some activity without even thinking about it? Explain one such situation. How did it make you feel?
- How do you think your brain communicates with the rest of your body?
Listening
Exercise
Listen to first paragraph of a larger Listening, which is only an Introduction to the topic. In your group, discuss how this relates to the Unit's Reading and predict what you believe the rest of the Listening will be about and some of the topics that might be discussed.