My Notes July 2025 Week 1

(Note: There are no lessons in the first week of July, so week 1 starts on July 6.)

The Swiss-made Impulse II is the first solar-powered plane to circumnavigate the world.

It took 504 days between 9 March 2015 and 26 July 2016.

They traveled 41,952 kilometers in 17 stages.

The plane had a wing area of 204 square meters with 17,248 solar cells.

Their average speed was 75 km/h, and the longest flight was a little over 26 hours.

The Dog Days of Summer are from 3 July to 11 December.

The star Sirius, a.k.a. the Dog Star, rises around July 3.

The dog star is the brightest star and relates to heat, drought, thunderstorms, etc.

The dog days of summer are the hot and humid days of summer.

Don't walk your pet on hot pavement as it can burn its paws.

“To get something straight” means “to understand something clearly.”

Let me get this straight; you’re telling me the dog opened the fridge and ate an entire pizza?

“To get that all the time” means “to hear something constantly.”

A: You look like Alan Alda from Mash. B: I get that all the time.