Chào các thính giả yêu mến của chương trình Học Tiếng Anh qua các chủ đề của chương trình học tiếng anh cùng Radiome. Mình là Diệu Hoa.
Chủ đề nghe Tiếng Anh của chúng ta ngày hôm nay có tựa đề là: Spider Silk có nghĩa là tơ nhện. 
Vì bài nghe khá dài nên mình sẽ tách làm hai phần để các bạn dễ dàng theo dõi hơn nhé!
Các bạn cùng chú ý lắng nghe với tiết tấu chậm rãi của chương trình Spotlight nhé. Note lại những từ bạn nghe chưa rõ và xem lại ở bản text để làm phong phú thêm vốn từ vựng của mình nhé!
Voice 1 
Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Christy VanArragon.
Voice 2 
And I’m Mike Procter. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
Voice 1 
It is stronger than steel. It is more difficult to break than rubber. It is one of the strongest natural substances on earth. Yet it comes from a very small creature. Today’s Spotlight is on spider silk.
Voice 2 
The spider is not the world’s most popular creature. In fact, it is probably one of the most disliked creatures. Many people are even afraid of spiders! But why is it that people do not like spiders? Most house spiders are not even very big. Very few spiders ever grow bigger than the size of an adult’s hand.
Voice 1 
Maybe it is their eight long hairy legs. Maybe it is the way they move quickly across the floor. Maybe it is their dark colours and small shiny eyes. Of course some spiders are poisonous. It makes sense to be careful around those spiders. And this may make some people afraid of all spiders.
Voice 2 
No matter how you feel about spiders, they are still amazing creatures. One of the most amazing things about spiders is what they produce – soft, strong silk!
Voice 1 
When you think of silk you probably imagine beautiful silk clothes. This soft, fine material is very popular. In the past only royal people wore silk. And silk still costs a lot of money today. However this kind of silk does not come from spiders. Some of it is man-made. And some of it comes from silkworms. These small insects are easy to farm. So companies can make large amounts of silk.
Voice 2 
But it is not so easy with spiders. They do not make silk the way silkworms do. Silkworms produce just one kind of silk. But spiders can produce more than seven kinds!

Voice 1 
To make silk, spiders produce substances called ‘proteins’. Spiders ‘weave’ or ‘spin’ these silk proteins to make their webs. They turn the protein into long thin pieces of silk. Spiders create different kinds of silk for different parts of their webs. For example, they use sticky silk to weave the top part of their web. This is the part that helps them catch insects for food. Spiders make the main structure of the web from dragline silk. Dragline silk is one of the strongest natural substances on the earth!
Voice 2 
This sounds a little strange at first. How could a spider’s silk be so strong? Imagine a spider’s web. Sometimes they are so fine that we do not even see them. The web is so thin it moves around in the wind. Spider’s silk is one-tenth the thickness of a human hair. Who would have known it could be so strong?
Voice 1 
People discovered the strength of spider silk many years ago. The tribal people in the South Pacific used spiders’ webs as tools. They used webs to make fishing lines and nets to catch fish. In the past, people have also used spider webs to make clothes. These clothes protected them from the rain. They have even used webs as bandages to cover wounds!
Phần 1 của bài nghe hôm nay tạm dừng ở đây. Các bạn chú ý và theo dõi phần 2 ở những bài học tiếp sau nhé! Cảm ơn các bạn.