2019-10-03
6 分钟Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to my English learning podcast where we try to help you understand English grammar through the use of sentence and expressions. The sentence for today is - Astronomers have for the first time discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star. Visit me at www.englishlessonviaskype.com - Improve your English with Harry. Join my VIP English Learning Club, or sign up for Online Courses and Skype...
Hi, this is Harry, and welcome back to the english podcast, where we try to help you to understand english grammar through the use of sentences and expressions.
The sentence that I have for you now is nothing to do with politics, but it's to do with another topic that I have some interest in is space exploration.
And in this particular sentence, it's talking about a report, recent report, that they have found, they believe water that could support life on some distant planet.
Okay, so I'll try to explain it to you.
Some interesting words here so I make sure I try and pronounce them correctly.
Astronomers have, for the first time, discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star.
Let me give it to you a second time.
And that word habitable, quite difficult.
If you say it fast, there's a tendency to trip over it.
So you have to make sure that you pronounce it habitable.
Habitable, meaning something that people could inhabit.
Let me give it to you again.
Astronomers have, for the first time, discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star.
Sounds nice and exotic and romantic, and they're far flung frontiers, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Okay, so astronomers.
Nice word, astronomers, those people studying the planets and, and the stars have for the first time.
Okay, so we're just using that simple grammatical verb have for the first time.
Yeah.
So we're stressing there.