Hello. I’m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation.
Today we’re going to talk about acronyms, abbreviations and names, and then we’ll do a bit of vocabulary building as well.
The boy in today’s clip is about to have a test to see whether he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD.
While you’re watching, listen for some other abbreviations.
How do you know if your child does have ADHD? An EEG brain scan helps answer that, say the Swinburne researchers.
Jacques Duff is a psychologist and one of Richard’s PhD students. A computer programme will compare Xavier’s brain scan with a database of scans of ADHD sufferers. If he does have the condition, the ADHD diagnosis will be automatically triggered.
Xavier was having a test to see if he has ‘ADHD’.
‘ADHD’ is an abbreviation.
An abbreviation is the short form of a phrase or a word.
We often abbreviate phrases using the first letter of each word.
Notice that you use capitals letters for these types of abbreviations.
‘ADHD’ stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ‘ADHD’ is much quicker and easier to say, and to write.
You might recognise some of these common abbreviations:
‘UFO’ stands for ‘Unidentified Flying Object’.
‘ASAP’ means ‘As Soon As Possible’.
Other common abbreviations are:
‘PC’, ‘Personal Computer’,
‘TV’ for ‘Television’,
and ‘CD-ROM’ – that’s a ‘Compact Disc with a Read Only Memory’!
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