Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Today I will share a funny story which is about a brown bear. As we know，Canada is close to the north pole, so sometimes some polar bears will come to Canada to find foods. If the local government or the animal protection organization meet these cases, they will anesthetize the polar bears and send them back to the north pole. And the beginning of the funny story was: a brown bear which is called Joey had albinism, so the whole body’s hair was white and looked like polar bear，and this made his life pretty good when he stayed in the forest as other animals felt that polar bears were strong. Until one day, Joey was found by the animal protection organization, and the organization thought he was a polar bear, in order to keep his life, the staff of the organization injected him with anesthetics when he was sleeping. After that, the poor bear was shipped to the north pole. One day, a scientist of the north pole found a polar bear was shivering with cold and realized that this was a normal brown bear，so they sent it back to Canada. In order to distinguish, the animal protection organization helped him dye his hair brown. But after a while, the newly grown hair turned to white again, someone thought he was a “dirty polar bear” and sent it to the polar bear exhibition hall of a zoo until one day one tourist found a algid bear when he visited the zoo and felt very surprised，therefore he reported to the management department of the zoo and got him out. In the end Joey could back to his original life.

Today I will share a funny story which is about a brown bear. As we know，Canada is close to the north pole, so sometimes some polar bears will come to Canada to find food. If the local government or the animal protection organization meet these cases, they will anesthetize the polar bears and send them back to the north pole. And the beginning of the funny story was: a brown bear which is called Joey / a bear called Joey had albinism, so all of his hair / the hair all over his body was white and looked like polar bear，and this made his life pretty good when he stayed in the forest as other animals felt that polar bears were strong. Until one day, Joey was found by the animal protection organization, and the organization thought he was a polar bear, and in order to save his life, the staff of the organization injected him with anesthetics when he was sleeping. After that, the poor bear was shipped to the north pole. One day, a scientist in / at the north pole found a polar bear was shivering from the cold and realized that this was a normal brown bear，so they sent it back to Canada. In order to distinguish, the animal protection organization helped him dye his hair brown. But after a while, the newly grown hair turned to white again, so / and someone thought he was a “dirty polar bear” and sent him to the polar bear exhibition hall of a zoo until one day one tourist found a freezing / really cold / shivering bear when he visited the zoo and felt very surprised，therefore he reported to the management department of the zoo and got him out. In the end Joey could be / go back to his original life.

Vocabulary

optimistic – positive / feeling good

a close contact – sb who was near a COVID patient
eg. the app can tell you if you’re a close contact

lawless / anarchy
eg. they think it’s anarchy over here / they think it’s lawless

citizenship 
eg. she gave up her Chinese citizenship and became an American

reimbursed – to give money back after sb spends money

contacts / contact lenses 

blurry – can’t see clearly

“you can’t judge a book by its cover” – you shouldn’t judge things by how they look or seem

sleet – snow + rain = thin layer of ice

Grammar

i think we can ahead of the plan – be ahead / get ahead 

every Chinese are know – every Chinese person knows 

they can win the normal bear – they beat the normal bear / they can win against the normal bear

Pronunciation

anesthetize (v) – an NEES the tize
anesthetic (n) – an nes THEH tick