VIP Class Notes (Li)[S]

Vocabulary

senior/upper level employees/staff/management

misinform – give false or inaccurate information

ex. Some platforms spread fake news to misinform the public.

misguided – resulting from wrong or improper goals or values

ex. The company blamed its disappointing performance on a misguided business plan.

ex. misguided ideas/policies

user profiles – accounts

privacy –  noun

ex. The value of privacy is regarded differently in different countries.

private – adj

ex. private data

crime rates

criminal – the person responsible for a crime

correct/incorrect 

Speaking exercise

It is not very complicated, just summarise the performance and action plan of the whole year.

It is not very complicated, I just need to summarise the performance and action plan for the whole year.

If the managers or HRs don’t remind the deadline, I think no one will submit the report early or ahead.

If the managers or HRs set a reminder of the deadline, I think no one will submit the report early/well ahead of time. 

The most busiest time for the recruitment team.

The most busiest time for the recruitment team.

The hot words

The hot topic/main issue

The documentary send some negative opinions about the social media platform cause many people got the fake news and the uncorrect news…

The documentary portrays/conveys some negative opinion about the social media platforms cause many people get/receive fake/inaccurate news/are misguided by fake news.   

These problems are still not resolved effectively. Another problem in this documentary is about the platforms are collect people’s privacy data. Based on your data, they will send you advertisement.

These problems have still not been resolved effectively. Another problem mentioned in this documentary is about collecting people’s private data. Based on your habits, they will show/recommend you advertisements.

These platform will send you the things, or the news that you interested in.

These platforms will send you content or news that you are interested in.

I remember a people who maybe manager of Facebook.

I remember a person/somebody who used to be a manager of Facebook.

They want to need the data of the advertising platforms.

They need data from advertising platforms.

This idea is a very good thing to lead people to invite some friends or colleagues to join the platform.

This idea is brilliant/clever because it leads/convinces/attracts people to invite some friends or colleagues to join the platform.