F2F Class Notes January 23rd (Ben)

Vocabulary

“Choose your poison” = choose your alcoholic drink

take office =/= leave office

On the left is the couple leaving office, on the right is the couple taking office.

Trump used to be the President-elect, now that he has taken office, he is the President. Obama used to be the President, now that he has left office, he is now a former President.

Original

Recently, Zhou Libo, a famous chinese stand-up comedian became the hot headlines in all of the media. The reason is that he and his friend TangSuang were arrested because of drug and possession of illegal firearms. However, people are focus on his friend again. TangSuang, a chinese student graduate from MIT. His research could lead to a major revolution in the electronice industry. Peopke guess that their arrest was a conspiracy.

Edited version

Recently, Zhou Libo, a famous Chinese stand-up comedian, made the headlines of all of the media. The reason is that he and his friend Tang Suang were arrested on charges of drug usage and illegal possession of firearms. However, people mainly focus on his friend, Tang Suang, a Chinese graduate student from MIT. His research could lead to a major revolution in the electronics industry.

Many people guess that their arrest was a conspiracy or a set-up.

Their arrest is said to be a conspiracy or a set-up.

a set-up 栽赃 = a situation made to frame someone and accuse them of something