VIP Class Notes (Lily)[R/S]

Reading

The newest natural colour for chocolate is pink, after 80 years of the colours that we are used to. The colour comes from a ‘newly discovered’ cocoa bean, and people have been developing it for 13 years.

Some people are sceptical about the claims about pink chocolate. Angus Kennedy, editor of a magazine about sweets, says that people are selling this to those who are ‘hedonistic, self-indulgent consumers’ that are not worried about the cost. He thinks that people will sell this chocolate for at least twice as much just because they can.

Fatima Mendy, founder of a chocolate store, said that all cocoa beans become dark chocolate. She thinks that the pink chocolate will either be a crossbreed or white chocolate mixed with fruit.

Vocabulary

skeptical: doubtful about a particular thing

ex: A skeptical young women will be doubtful about anything you say

ex: People are skeptical about ghost.
ex: Charlotte is skeptical about zodiac signs.

hedonistic (someone who thinks that pleasure is the most important thing)

ex: People who are hedonistic are probably rich.

self-indulgent (when you get things that you like but do not need)

ex: Most women are self-indulgent.

crossbreed (when two different plants or animals breed together, they make a new plant or animal).

ex: Pink chocolate might be a crossbreed or white chocolate mixed with fruit.

rational: agreeable to reason; reasonable

ex: Women are more rational than men.

exaggerate : to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate

ex: to exaggerate the difficulties of a situation.

ex: My friend exaggerated on how hot her boyfriend was.

ex: Those shoes exaggerate the size of my feet. (pointed shoes)

Speaking exercise

Why are women more self-indulgent than men?

I think it’s because women need more things to wear or eat or use. Women need coats, dress, and many types of shoes in different situations.  Women more care about people’s eyesight. Men are more rational than women when they came to shopping. Women go shopping with their friends mostly and they will buy useless things with their friends persuasion, even if they don’t like it.

I think it’s because women need more things to wear, to eat or to use/ more clothes, food and makeup.  Women need coats, dresses, and many types of shoes for different situations.  Women care more about how people think of them/ appearance. Men are more rational than women when it comes to shopping. Most of the times, women go shopping with their friends mostly and they will buy useless things under their friends’ pressure, even if they don’t like it.