Luyện nghe bài hát The Elements

Now, if I may digress momentarily the mainstream of
this evening's symposium, I'd like to sing a song is
completely pointless, but is which I picked up
during my career as a scientist. This may prove to
some of you day, perhaps, in a somewhat bizarre set of
circumstances. simply the names of the chemical
elements set to a possibly tune.
The tune is that of The Major-General's Song Gilbert &
Sullivan's The Of Penzance.
antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and and gallium,
And iodine and and thulium and thallium.
yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
There's strontium and and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
Isn't that interesting? I you would.I hope you're all
taking notes, because there's to be a short quiz next
period...
There's holmium and and hafnium and erbium,
And and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and and cerium and cesium.
And lead, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And and calcium and chromium and curium.
sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
And mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has to Harvard,
And there may be many others but haven't been discovered.
And now, may I have the next slide please? ...carried there.