F2F Class Notes 28th March (Raph)[W]

Vocabulary

Drone (n): 1- an aircraft that does not have a pilot but is controlled by someone on the ground, used especially for dropping bombs or for surveillance (= careful watching of a place).
E.g.: The U. S. Border Patrol’s unmanned drone helped agents track down their smuggling suspect.

Ethics (n): 1- the study of what is morally right and wrong, or a set of beliefs about what is morally right and wrong.
E.g.: They’re completely lacking in ethics.

Ethnicity (n): 1- a large group of people who have the same national, racial, or cultural origins, or the state of belonging to such a group.
E.g.: They place no importance on ethnicity.

Redundant (adj): 1- (especially of a word, phrase, etc.) unnecessary because it is more than is needed.
E.g.: In the sentence “She is a single unmarried woman”, the word “unmarried” is redundant.

Syria (n): 1- 叙利亚

Grammar

The artist losed a lot of money. – The artist lost a lot of money.

Pronunciation

Korea: /kəˈriː.ə/

Career: /kəˈrɪr/

Original: 

TV Pop stars live in the world of social media

If you load into the first page of Weibo ( Chinese Twitter ) , you’ll find it has been suffocated by thousands of tweets sent by a bunch of TV Pop Stars. They live in this fictitious world, in which they upload their selfies everyday, operate their large fan clubs, maintain their relationship with other pops and promote their new movies or songs. Weibo has become a crucial way for them to gain high popularity.
In this world, they show their designed personality to attract more fans, even if some of stars are hypocrites. If there is someone or some media saying something bad or true about those stars, their fans have millions of ways to defend their idols and hurt the one who is actually telling the truth. It’s more like a cult not a fan club. Some of the Stars has been spoiled and entitled by their fans. Because of this, they cannot live without compliments. Finally, they find their niches as twitter addicts rather than actors or singers.

(Crucial, hypocrite, cult, entitled, niche)

Edited:

TV Pop stars live in the world of social media

Whenever you open Weibo’s (Chinese Twitter) home page, you find it flooded by thousands of tweets sent by a bunch of TV pop stars. They live in this fictitious world, in which they upload their selfies everyday, operate their large fan bases, maintain their relationship with other pop stars and promote their new movies or songs. Weibo has become a crucial way for them to gain and maintain popularity.
In this world, they show their manufactured personalities to attract more fans even if, for that, they have to become hypocrites. If there is someone or some media outlet reports on a negative, true story about those stars, their fans have millions of ways to defend their idols and hurt the ones who are actually telling the truth. That makes it more like a cult, not a fan base. Some of the stars have become spoiled and entitled because of  their fans and, as a consequence, cannot live without compliments. Finally, they find their niches and become twitter addicts, rather than actors or singers.

(Crucial hypocrite cult entitled niche)