VIP Class Notes (Samara)[S]

Please review the pronunciation and vocabulary, great job on the last class!

Correct the speaking please!

In Chinese Tradition thinking people really care about the brain to make the body broke. They believes maybe the soul will be broken. But respect them people should have their own thinking. I hope, I wonder the Chinese people learn about a donate or charity. In Chinese culture the parents usually think only like the money or priority to kids, they only have one way, one thinking about their property. But American Europe people wander the parents set up a foundation or fund or something to make. There is a different way to keep the money. People can’t live holding money forever, holding everything forever.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-43902524

An exhibition of preserved human bodies has drawn controversy in Australia this week after an activist group raised questions about the origin of the specimens.

The group of objectors – who include doctors, lawyers and scientists – have called for the exhibition in Sydney to be shut down.

They assert that it may include the bodies of executed Chinese inmates, including political prisoners.

But the organisers of Real Bodies: The Exhibition have strongly denied those allegations, calling them “lies” and “sensationalism“.

They say the 20 cadavers were legally provided by a medical university in China, where hospitals had determined them to be “unclaimed corpses”.

WARNING: Readers may find some images in this article disturbing

The bodies have been preserved through a method known as plastination, which drains them of fluids before replacing them with silicone. This allows the skinned bodies to be exhibited in life-like poses.

What is the concern?

In an open letter to Australian politicians, the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China says there is “credible evidence” that the bodies may belong to “executed prisoners and prisoners of conscience from China”.

“We are astonished that visas and permits for bringing this exhibition into Australia were issued by the Australian Government, given the lack of documentation demonstrating ethical and legal sourcing of each body,” the letter reads.

Pronunciation

fluids: Floo / ids
Drain:
Politicians: polly / ti /shans
Evidence: eh / vi / dance
Executed: Ex / ey / cute / ed
Conscience: Con / chence
Astonished: 
Visa: VEE / sa
Ethical: Eh / thi / cull
ai: aye Train, cain, main, feign
ui: ooi fluid, juice,
th: things, the, thimble, thigh

Vocabulary

life Insurance: Kind of insurance if you pass away.
Donate: give something for free.
Medical Studies: 
Exhibition: To show something. A showcase. A show for still things, or things that don’t move.
Specimens: things you are studying
Allegations: someone accuses you of something
Sensationalism / sensationalized – obsessed with having intense feeling. Subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
ex: Muslims doing suicide is sensationalized. 
Ethical: wise / morally wrong or right.
Puffery: to speak and make things bigger than they really are
ex: This is obscene puffery.
Exaggerated: dramatic
Evidence: proof