F2F Class Notes (Tibo) [S]
Homework
What are your goals in 2021?
The Joneses (2010) 模范家åº
Speaking exercise
I think not every problem can be solved by consumerism
1 year ago a beauty brand made a slogan like if you are not feeling happy you should buy a lipstick for yourself it will make you happier.
Many people pretending they have a good life on social media, that is definitely increased customers.
My hometown extracts oil and everyone comes from different cities to work in factories so everyone speaks mandarin.
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I think not every problem can be solved by consumerism.
1 year ago a beauty brand made a slogan like if you are not feeling happy you should buy a lipstick for yourself it will make you happier.
Many people pretend / are pretending to have a good life on social media, that has definitely increased customers / it pushes people to buy to show off.
My hometown extracts oil and everyone comes from different cities to work in factories so everyone speaks mandarin.
Writing exercise
I want to talk about my favorite English podcast, named HOW DID I GET HERE, produced by DIVE studios, a podcast production studio from South Korea / a South Korean podcast studio. The host is Jea, a man who grew up in LA, now he is a musician in a K-pop band/group.
The show’s concept is: we live our best lives on the internet and come out the other side knowing more but not feeling all that much smarter. Every episode will discuss / have a discussion on one question, for example: “Mandela effect”, “Do video games make you smarter?”, “why should I sleep?” and so on.
This time, I want to pick this topic: what are the benefits of bilingualism / being bilingual.
For Jea, the first point is: he believes being bilingual is good for your brain to activate at old age / it keeps your brain healthy / it prevents your brand from decaying , because as soon your brain starts to decay your body will start giving up / to have problems. The second point is bilingualism helps children develop better social skills.
And because  I didn’t  grow up with bilingualism / I didn’t grow up bilingual, so I’m really curious about what’s the feeling of being bilingual? For me, I have been learning English a few months, I feel when I was speaking, I couldn’t  think in Chinese and English at the same time.
Vocabulary
influence (n)effect on something
Social media influences our buying decisions
status (n) position / 地ä½
some people feel that if they have luxury brands it increases their status / it gives them status
fluent (adj) æµåˆ©çš„
He is fluent in Chinese
fluently (adv)
he speaks Korean fluently
spam (n) junk message
The email was put in the spam folder
to decay (v) become worse / lose strength
My teeth started to decay
to discuss (v)
We discussed on the phone
discussion (n)
I had a discussion with Tom
Grammar
help someone (to) do something
I helped her to finish the website
I helped them design the logo
think in a language / speak in a language
I wrote an email in English.
She spoke in Chinese during the event.
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