VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [W]

What can we do to prepare for WW3?

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watch

Joyeux Noel (2005) about WW1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

Stalingrad 

platoon (1985) about the war in Vietnam https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091763/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

full metal jacket (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

lord of war (2005) about selling weapons https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/

Last year I saw a movie called Midway island.
It is different I ever saw the war movies before. nobody wants war and this war is unstoppable.
In Chinese movies about war always the army is quite bad but in this movie the Japanese are full of faith.
Even they lose battles they

Soldiers have to fight because they have different beliefs and the Japanese army lost the war and killed themselves. Even they are lose the war but the are still respect by the USA army.
it is quite realistic.

I saw many bad news from youtube, many western countries unfriendly to China. Common people will not know the truth until at least 10 years later.

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Last year I saw a movie called Midway island.
It is different from the war movies I saw before.
Nobody wants war and this war is unstoppable.
In Chinese movies about war the army is always quite bad but in this movie the Japanese army is full of faith.
The Japanese army lost the war and killed themselves / committed suicide this action inspired respect from the US army.
it is quite realistic.
Soldiers have to fight because they have different beliefs.
This movie expresses the war is 残酷的

I saw many bad news from youtube, many western countries are/become unfriendly to China / blame China. Common people will not know the truth until at least 10 years later. ／ common people won’t know the truth before 10 years.

The COVID 19 has big bad effect, our company reduced two staff last month.I felt some sad, because find a good employee is difficult thing.But now the economy is getting worse, we have to do it for save cost,otherwise it’s hard to earn the money this year.We don’t have other ways to imporve profit.
Recently I’m very intersted the World War II and I read a lots of book and movies about it.

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COVID 19/a new sickness has a big bad effect / a negative influence, our company laid off two employees last month.
I felt some sadness / I felt sad, because finding a good employee is a difficult thing / because it is hard to find a good employee .
But now the economy is getting worse, we have to do it to save cost,otherwise it’s hard to earn money this year/it’s hard to stay profitable .We don’t have other ways to improve profit / to improve profitability / to stay profitable
Recently I’m very interested in (the) World War II and I read lots of books and movies about it.

Vocabulary

science fiction (Sci-fi)(n)
Contagion was a science fiction movie but it became reality.

scapegoat (n) 替罪羊(n): someone you blame for everything
they try to find a scapegoat for the bad economy

cruel（adj) 残酷
The king was very cruel.

suicide (n): kill oneself 自杀
He committed suicide because he lost a lot of money
He wasn’t killed it was a suicide.

to censor (v) 删改
10 mins of the movie were censored because the actors were naked

censorship (n)
I prefer to watch movies on US websites to avoid censorship.

belief / faith (n)信仰
He fights for his beliefs.

violent  (adj) 残暴的
He is violent he always fights

violence(n)
There is too much violence in movies

sad (adj)
I am sad

sadness (n)
We all have sadness in our lives.

profitability (n) : How much profit you get 利润率
We increased profitability by using more computers

to lay off  (n/v) to tell someone to stop coming to work
2 people were laid off because of the disease.
The company announced a new lay off.

sickness (n)疾病
I suffer from a new sickness

opposite: the reverse
The opposite of hot is cold

negative (adj) : bad
Covid had a negative impact on the economy

positive (adj) : good
Staying at home had a positive effect because I learned how to cook

Grammar

if you have a noun which singular (1) you need an article(a/the)
I went to a hospital
The United States

if you have a name you do not need an article
I went to Huashan hospital
China
Shanghai
America

to be interested in something
I am interested in music