VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

The nation which I would like to go is the UK. My friend, Vivianne, married with a British guy, I often visit them on the weekend. They go home once a year, if I want to visit the UK, they could bring me together.
In addition, one of my best friends and ex colleague, Patricia, she studied her master degree in the UK before, and her brothers grew up in the UK, so she often told me the stories about her life there in the UK she met there, which ignited my curiosity for the nation. Before that time, I didn’t like the nation, hearing the news that British people have racial discrimination against for people of color, so I was afraid of the bad things that could happen for having bad things in the UK.
The viewpoint I most want to go is Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street. In my childhood, I like a cartoon very much, whose name is Detective Conan. The protagonist in the cartoon is a senior high school student who was shorten to a pupil by the black clothes gangs. One of the specials collect movie is The Phantom Of Baker Street. The drama plot mainly was about told that 50 children from political and business celebrities family who tested a new AI game, the game which could let each participant return to 1888, they have to fight with Jack the Ripper, who is the top criminal in London in the 19th century, if they failed, their spirit would have to stay in the game forever, because the AI would cut the connection between their spirit and body. The movie told more details about old London, has many retro style element, that made me become obsessed with London.

The potato chip maker Pringles has improved its packaging. Pringles is well known for its large, round, stacked crisps as well as for its cylindrical container. However, the container has been criticised for being bad for the environment. A lot of the criticism was because the tube was almost impossible to recycle. The BBC news agency said the container was “a recycler’s nightmare”. It might have looked simple but it was made up of multiple materials. It had a plastic cap, a metal base, an aluminium tear-off cover and a foil-lined cardboard tube. This all made it nearly impossible for people to separate and recycle the container. The Recycling Association called it one of the “villains” of the recycling world.

Chiefs at Pringles went back to the drawing board to make the packaging easier to recycle. They spent 12 months designing a new tube. This move was part of the company’s promise to switch to 100 per cent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by the year 2025. A company spokesman said: “We are eager to play our part and reduce our impact on the planet. And Pringles fans expect that of us too. So we’ve worked hard to come up with this new can, which is widely recyclable and keeps our chips fresh and tasty and protects them from breaking up – which helps to reduce food waste.” However, the new design still has a plastic lid. The Recycling Association said this would just add to plastic pollution.

Vocabulary

cylindrical – yuan zhu
i.e. This cup is a cylindrical shape.

foil – xi
i.e. We use foil paper in ovens.

villain – bad guy
i.e. Tom is the villain in Tom and Jerry.

chief – boss 首席
CEO – Chief Executive Officer

compostable – able to be composed
i.e This screw is compostable for anything you want to make.

drawing board – strategy planning department
i.e. We need to focus on the drawing board right now to come up with a plan.

enforce – execute, to push sb. to do
i.e. We should better enforce the waste sorting policy.

fine – fa kuan
i.e. I propose a fine to punish the person who break the rule.

disadvantage – something bad
i.e. There is always a disadvantage of everything.

charge – provide electricity
i.e. I need to charge my phone.

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