ENGLISH TASK OF THE 3RD MEETING

THURSDAY, MARCH 2ND 2023

Submitted to fulfill the third meeting of English assignment

TEACHING LECTURE
Colonel Caj. (K) (Ret) Dr. Dra. Herlina Tarigan, MPPM.

WRITTEN BY
CC. Rakha Dwi Putra Juniper
NIM : 320220404021

CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDY PROGRAM

FACULTY OF DEFENSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
2022/2023
 TASK 1 – READING COMPREHENSION

1. The best summary for the passage.

Answer: The best summary for the passage is option (b) “The Australian Defense
Force will lift restrictions on women serving in the Army’s four frontline war
units as a strategy to increase recruitment numbers.”

2. Answer the Questions

a. Frontline (adj) – (line 1)
Answer: Refer to the foremost position on the battlefield where troops
engage in direct combat with the enemy.
b. Tackle (vb) – (line 2)
Answer: Refers to trying to deal with something or trying to find a solution
to a problem in military matters.
c. Crisis (n) – (line 2)
Answer: Refers to a drastic decrease in numbers or in a difficult situation.
d. Progressive (adj) – (line 5)
Answer: Referring to occurring or developing gradually or gradually;
proceed step by step.
e. Counterparts (n) – (line 6)
Answer: Refers to a person or thing that has the same goal as another in a
different place or organization
f. Elite (adj) – (line 9)
Answer: Refers to a group of people who by virtue of position or education
exercise a lot of power and have some influence
g. Lack (vb) – (line 11)
Answer: Refers to a state of being or in a situation of deficient.
h. Stamina (n) – (line 13)
Answer: Refers to the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort.

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 TASK 2 – FINDING KEY POINTS

Direction:
1. Note that the key points are often (but not always) found in the first part of
a paragraph. They tend to be followed by examples or further information.
2. Sometimes it can also be found in the last part. Usually, the part preceding
them are facts that are knitted together to make a conclusion.

Read the following article and underline five key points that relate to your essay
Subject.

A NATURAL REMEDY FOR GLOBAL WARMING?

1 The Earth seems to be getting greener: photographs of the planet taken from
satellites show that over the last thirty years an area of 18 million square
kilometers has become covered in new vegetation. This growth is largely in
regions, mainly above the Arctic Circle, that were previously too cold for
plant life, but which, as a consequence of global warming, are now able to
6 support it. Recent research by scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory in the US suggests that this additional plant growth may be
reducing the effects of global warming.
Itis known that currently over 35 billion tons of carbon dioxide are
added annually to the atmosphere, and this quantity increased steeply in the
11 second half of the twentieth century, from only six billion tones in the 1950s.
As a result, the concentration of CO2 in the air has risen to over 400 parts per
million (ppm), compared with about 300 ppm 60 years ago. But since the start
of the twenty-first century this level has hardly changed, making scientists
believe that some process is extracting the extra CO2 from the air.
16 Photosynthesis converts carbon dioxide into plant matter, aided by
water and sunlight. If there is more carbon dioxide in the air the process of
photosynthesis accelerates, causing plants to grow faster and larger. This
appears to be a likely reason for the CO2 concentration levelling off and might
be seen as a check on global warming, as previously barren sub-polar regions
21 become home to grasses and trees. Although this could be regarded as a

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 possible solution to the problem of global warming, the effects are likely to
be temporary, since plant growth is also dependent on water, and as rainfall
patterns change, droughts and floods are likely to become more severe.
Other researchers claim that further consequences of human activity,
26 such as the loss of tropical forests, will counter the beneficial effects of extra
plant growth in polar areas by releasing the CO2 stored in the rainforests. They
argue that the only certain way to prevent an acceleration of warming is to
reduce human use of fossil fuels, which are the source of much of the
unwanted carbon dioxide.
(Source: Suarez, M. (2016) Earth Matters (3) p. 176)

Five key points:

1. Plant (line 5)
2. Global Warming (line 5)
3. Effects (line 8)
4. Carbon dioxide (line 9)
5. Photosynthesis (line 16)

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 TASK 3 – SUMMARY OF THE WRITING IN QUESTION

Direction.
1. Find academic writing in English on your major/subject using the internet.
2. Make sure you can understand most of the content.
3. Write down a paragraph in your own words about the summary of the
writing in question! (Around 3 to 5 sentences)
4. Email the writing above and your summary using email to your English
lecturer before next week’s lesson.
5. Don’t forget to use paraphrasing!

DRONES FIND UNEXPECTED RADIATION ‘HOTSPOTS’

IN FOREST NEAR CHERNOBYL

Near ground zero of the catastrophic 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant, aerial drones recently revealed radioactive hotspots that aren't on
official maps. An interdisciplinary team flew special drones over Ukraine's Red
Forest, one of the most radioactive spots in the world, which is located 0.3 miles
(500 meters) from the Chernobyl complex, University of Bristol (UB)
representatives announced in a statement.

Using data from the drone observations, the UB scientists, who are part of
the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR), created the most detailed map
to date of radiation in the forest. They also pinpointed previously unsuspected
locations where contamination was unusually intense, according to the statement.
[See Images of Chernobyl, Frozen in Time].

The researchers deployed fixed-wing drones, flying 50 missions over the

forest over 10 days and mapping a grid over an area measuring about 6 square miles
(15 square kilometers). First, drones used a remote-sensing method called lidar —
light detection and ranging — to create 3D maps of the terrain. Then, lightweight
gamma spectrometers scanned for signatures of radioactive decay.

Radiation contamination in the Red Forest was already known to be higher

overall than in any other natural site on Earth. Nevertheless, the scientists found

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that radioactivity there was unevenly distributed. While radiation had subsided in
some areas, others maintained contamination levels that were dangerously high,
project leader Tom Scott, a professor at the UB School of Physics, told British
television network ITV.

They detected one unexpected hotspot in the ruins of a facility that

performed soil separation during cleanup efforts after the accident, the BBC
reported. Spent nuclear fuel in the abandoned building was emitting so much
radiation that exposure for just a few hours would dose a person with as much
radiation as is normally absorbed over an entire year, Scott told the BBC. Certain
radioisotopes that were identified in the Red Forest have very long half lives (the
time required for half of their atomic nuclei to decay), "so they're going to be around
for a long time," Scott told ITV.

For decades after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone — an area
about 1,660 square miles (4,300 square km) around the nuclear complex — was so
toxic that nearly all of it was strictly off-limits to people (though wildlife continued
to thrive there). But as the radioactivity dissipated, parts of the zone have been
opened to tourists, ITV reported. The recent expedition to the Red Forest was the
first in a series of surveys that NCNR will conduct in Ukraine over the next year,
and the new maps it is making will help officials to prevent risks to visitors,
according to the statement.

(Source: Weisberger, Mindy. (2019) Drones Find Unexpected Radiation ‘Hotspots’

in Forest Near Chernobyl, livescience.com)

Summary of the Writing Question

(Around 3 to 5 sentences)

An interdisciplinary team from the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics

(NCNR) used aerial drones to map radiation hotspots in the Red Forest, located
near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which had not been previously identified
on official maps. The drones used light detection and ranging (lidar) and gamma
spectrometry to create a 3D map of the terrain and detect radioactive decay. The

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team found that the radioactivity in the forest was unevenly distributed, with some
areas remaining dangerously contaminated. The NCNR plans to conduct more
surveys in Ukraine over the next year to help officials prevent risks to visitors in
areas of the exclusion zone that have been opened to tourists.

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 REFERENSI

Weisberger, Mindy. (2019) Drones Find Unexpected Radiation ‘Hotspots’ in

Forest Near Chernobyl, livescience.com.