Online Class Notes (Ally)

What is the best app you have downloaded from the app store?

Vocabulary

precise: 精准

academia：学术界

overflow: too much of something
ie. Overflow of tourists, of info, data ….

overstate：夸大 say something too much
ie. Overstate the importance of marriage

downplay: .对…轻描淡写；轻视；低估
ie. Trump downplayed the effects of COVID

lunar calendar: nong li

delineate: 刻画；描述；阐明;描绘；描画;划定；勾画

irritable：easy to be annoyed
ie. I’m an irritable person.

irritated：status of being annoyed
ie. I’m so irritated because my boss always keeps me after 5.

Grammar

focus (n)
ie. This is the focus of the lense.

I’m 89
I was born in ’89

I’m easily lost
I get lost easily

If I didn’t set a duration of writing, I’d like to waste a lot of time on jumpthinking and searching various info online.
If I didn’t set a duration of writing, I would waste a lot of time on jumpthinking and searching various info online.
I would waste a lot of time on jumpthinking and searching various info online, but I have to finish on time, so I set a duration of writing.

Focus-Noodles

Nowadays, our brains are almost constantly stimulated by input of the never-end information and flickering of the power-on screen. Many of us may find it challenging to stay focused for extended periods. ideaTiny, a Chinese developer based on Apple IOS system has launched an App last year that trains the mind to maintain concentration.

The App is Focus-noodles, also called COVER. “Cover phone, Star fucus.” a slogan is displays on its official website. According to the product introduction shows that Cover is a tool of mindfulness-based brain training. App included the black and white stick figure style and an interactive process of focus on cooking a bowl of noodles together. For example, when you turn the phone over and the timer will start. The User need to focus on, and don’t try to touch the phone, or it will be “irritable”. When the time is up, your noodles are ready, and you have completed a meaningful focus. A humorous story as a reward to ease your tension after concentration and prepare for the next focus and conquer your phone addiction.

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Focus-Noodles

Nowadays, our brains are almost constantly stimulated by input of the never-ending/overflow of never-ending information and flickering of the always-on screens. Many of us may find it challenging to stay focused for extended periods. Therefore/ to provide a solution, IdeaTiny, a Chinese developer based on the Apple IOS system launched an App last year that trains the mind to maintain concentration.

The App is Focus-noodles, also called COVER. “Cover phone, Start focusing.” a slogan is displayed on its official website. According to the product introduction, Cover is a tool of mindfulness-based brain training. The app included the black and white stick figure style and an interactive process of focusing on cooking a bowl of noodles together. For example, when you flip the phone over and the timer will start. The user needs to focus on his or work, and not touch the phone, or it will set off the “angry mode”, where the phone starts buzzing and alerting the user to put down his or her phone. When the time is up, your noodles are ready, and you have completed a meaningful focus process. As a reward, a humorous story eases your tension after concentration and prepares you for the next focus process, helping you conquer your phone addiction.

Pronunciation

stimulated: “ti”

academia

acidemia

eases: eee- ze-s