VIP Class Notes (Lily) [S/R]

Vocabulary

1.incident(an event that people know about)
ex: this is a serious incident in America, everyone is talking about it.

2. crayfish= little lobster 小龙虾
ex: you should try the crayfish 靓靓蒸虾.

3. tear gas (a thing that hurts the eyes, and police use to stop people)
ex: Police use tear gas to keep the angry crowd away.

4. plastic bullet (a piece of plastic that a gun shoots and that hurts a person).
ex: if you get shot by a plastic bullet, you will not die, but you’ll get hurt.

5. protest (verb)= say no with action
protester (noun)= the people who protest
ex: there are lots of protesters in front of the white house.
ex: In China, people don’t have the right to protest.

6. racist = when one race doesn’t like the other race
sexist= when one sex has strong opinions against the other sex
ex: Some people are racist, because they think they are better than others.
ex: Some companies are sexist, they would pay male employees more than female employees.

7. preference (noun)= like better/ like more
prefer (verb)=偏爱
ex: I prefer working over staying at home.
ex: I prefer Japanese food tonight.
ex: we all have different preferences in food/ clothes/ colors.

8. plastic surgery (noun)= 整容
ex: Most koreans have done plastic surgery.
ex: The double eyelid surgery isn’t considered as plastic surgery.

9. surgery (noun)= 手术
surgeon (noun)= 手术师
ex: Surgeons make a lot of money.
ex: I have to do a surgery tomorrow morning.

10. can’t tell= 看不出来
can tell= 看得出来
ex: I can tell when a girl has done plastic surgery.
ex: I couldn’t tell that you got a haircut.

if she just double eyelid, I think it’s ok. Many girls choose plastic surgery on the nose. I think it’s very easy to tell if she has done a nose job. 

Revised

if she has only done double eyelid, I think it’s ok. Many girls choose to do plastic surgery on the nose. I think it’s very easy to tell if she has done a nose job. 

Police in Minneapolis, US, stop a black man. They make the man lie on the ground. One officer puts his knee on the man´s neck. The man says that he cannot breathe.

However, the officer keeps his knee on the man´s neck for seven minutes. The man stops talking. An ambulance takes the man to hospital. Doctors say that the man is dead.

The four police officers lose their job. However, people are not happy. People say that the officer kills the man.

Similar incidents happen in the past. People in Minneapolis get very angry. They start to protest before a police station. People set fire to stores. People take things from stores. The police must use tear gas and plastic bullets to stop the protesters.