Online Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Homework

Choose another article to summarise.


Look up these 4 words and look at the example sentences & other words that are similar.

elect (formal) = choose 
select (formal) = pick
https://cn.bing.com/dict/?mkt=zh-CN

Vocabulary

I needed to go to shoot / I was on shoots
eg. I was on shoots all week

organic – electric car

raise a kid – yang xiao hai
eg. I want to raise a kid at some point in my life / raising kids is difficult

to carry on the family line / pass on your genes / pass on your family name / continue the bloodline 

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influence – softest
affect – middle
impact – strongest

open the policyrelaxed the policy
eg. they have relaxed the single child policy so that now people can choose to have more than 1 kid

Grammar

one month once once a month 

if you have not enough energy if you haven’t got enough energy / if you don’t have enough energy 

limited economy capability – limited economic capability

it will affect to people’s workit will affect people’s work 

they are struggle for thatthey struggle with that / they find it hard / they had a hard time with that
eg. I didn’t enjoy high school – I found it really hard / I had a really hard time there

Writing exercise

Yesterday I read a piece of news which is about DINK family in Shanghai. According to the new report which is related to population census of China, the DINK family increase to 12.4% among Shanghai family, and it is a new record to Shanghai. As we know, China was a traditional country and carrying on the family line was the task of every couple all the time, therefore many couples had their children for their elders. But now, the situation is being changed as some couples select to be DINK family and the reason is Chinese values have changed. From the report,the main reasons for being DINK in China are:
Not enough energy, affect work,limited economic capability and affect 2 people’s world. It means that Chinese people have more ideas and more space to choose their own way of life and I think it is an improvement. But from another perspective,it will cause the population aging problem,so how to balance is a topic to the world

Yesterday I read a piece of news which was about the DINK family / about DINK families in Shanghai. According to the new report which is related to the population census of China / to China’s population census, the DINK family has increased to 12.4% among Shanghai families, and it is a new record for Shanghai. As we know, China has generally been a traditional country and carrying on the family line is / has always been the task of every couple, therefore many couples had their children for their elders. But now, the situation is changing as some couples elect to be DINK families and the reason is Chinese values have changed. From the report,the main reasons for being DINK in China are:
Not enough energy,impact on work,limited economic capability, and impact / disturb the couple life. It means that Chinese people have more ideas and more space to choose / pick / decide their own way of life and I think it is an improvement (on the past / on the old way of doing things). But from another perspective,it will cause aging populations,so how to balance it / find a balance is a global concern / is an issue for the world to consider.