Reflections from VCU English Language Learners

Instructor: Audrey Short
English Language Program
Virginia Commonwealth University
Sun Jul 19

Military Developing Half-Robot, Half-Insect 'Cybug' Spies

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCES?  WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO GET YOUR NEWS FROM FOX?

noonui:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532511,00.html

Vocab

metamorphosis: A change in the form and often habits of an animal during normal development after the embryonic stage. Metamorphosis includes, in insects, the transformation of a maggot into an adult fly and a caterpillar into a butterfly and, in amphibians, the changing of a tadpole into a frog

sophisticated:Having acquired worldly knowledge or refinement

miniature:A copy or model that represents or reproduces something in a greatly reduced size

immobile:Immovable; fixed,Not moving; motionless

swarm:A large number of insects or other small organisms

Question?

What do you think about this technology at the first time you saw this news?

Is it possible to develop to other kind of animal like cat or dog?

What do you that the military develop this tool for?