F2F Class Notes (Whitney) [S]

Correct the speaking exercise

Vocabulary

workaholic – 工作狂
I am passionate about my job, but not a workaholic

nearsighted – 近视
I can’t see things that are far away, so I am nearsighted

started a heated discussion – 热话题

it caused a commotion/world wide focus 

disease 病毒

worst case scenario – 最坏的打算

Second World War – 第二次世界大战

Second Sino-Japanese War – 第二次中日战争

gene mutation – altering something from the natural way
mutating genes

genetically modified food 

bad blood – bad history between two countries or two people
There’s a lot of bad blood between Japan and China because of the bad things that happened in the past e.g. Unit 731 experiment.

good intention, but a bad method 

public appeal – everyone pleading with the government to intervene

Topic: Technology
tech-noh-li-gee

Yesterday a biological scientist in Shenzhen announced a big news. The world’s first gene edited twin babies were born in China. So they are immune to HIV disease and the scientists want to observe the babies growing up and research if the people’s genes was edit before they’re born, how can this technology change human’s future. Maybe in the future many people can use this technology to change the future like in Cancer and HIV. But after the professors announced this research it start a heated discussion all over China because 122 scientists publically criticised this professor’s behaviour, moral problems and ethnic roots. They think because this technology is not complete that twins babies will confrence many unknown disease because their genes were edit. They think that the professor is not responsible. The scientists association said if the technology is used by some bad people, they can use this technology to improve their baby’s genes. It aroused big attention all over china from press, lawyers and scientists all over china who all have different opinions and controversial opinions about this topic.