F2F Class Notes (Mason)[s]

Homework

Write a short comparison of Japan and China, use some of the vocab below.

Vocabulary

Demographics – Statistics related to population
eg. The demographics of shanghai show that there are very few ethnic minorities.

Recourse – Way do to something
eg. The Chinese government has no recourse in making families have more children.

Sustain – to be able to last over time
eg. I hope this money will sustain me until December.

Animosity – tension or dislike between two groups or two people
eg. Some people believe that there is still Chinese animosity towards Japan for WWII.

Genuine – real
eg. My friends watch is not genuine gold.
eg. I didn’t put on a genuine smile when I saw Sarah because I hate her.

Grammar

Half a month – two weeks

Writing exercise

Original

Nowadays our government thinks the population may not last in a few years. They want people to birth more children and ease the strict of the one child policy. Previously the one child policy is carried by government becasue it thinks the position in china was so hight hat the country cant supply so many people. But now with the increasing standard of chinese people, many people have no wish to birth more children. the phenomon cause by these reasons, the first is: many people hod opinion that children should be cultivated, shall be raised by the best qaulities, the second reason is peoples opinion of sex and children is more and more diverse, some people they dont want to birth children, and some people want to marry with the same sex, and third reason is our country have no compulsory methods to make people breed more children. Because its easy for a government to just permit family to breed one child because they can do some mehtods, but they have no method to make them breed more.

Revised

Nowadays our government thinks the population wont be able to sustain itself. They want people to have more children and ease the severity of the one child policy. Previously, the one child policy was carried out by government because it thought the population in china was so high that the country couldnt supply so many people. But now with the increasing standard of living of Chinese people, many people have no wish to bear more children. This phenomenon is caused by these reasons. The first is that many people have opinion that children should be cultivated, shall be raised in the best circumstances, the second reason is that peoples opinion of sex and children is becoming more and more diverse, some people dont want to have children, and some people want to marry with the same sex, and the third reason is that our country has no compulsory methods to make people breed more children. Because its easy for a government to prevent a family from having more than one child, because they have methods of policing that. but they have no methods to force a family to breed more, they can only offer incentives.