Online Class Notes (Jesse)

In every country, it will have its own policies which are suitable for their nation, so I love to read different kinds of news from some apps in that they can help me to know the difference of the world. This week, I read a piece of news which is about challenge “limit the beard” policy in the army of Israel. From 2016, Israel announce that all soldiers must get the approval from military commander if you want to grow a beard. The justification for that is based on the religious reasons，the Orthodox Jews can have opportunities to grow their beards, but for Secular Jews, they must shave off their beards, many people think the policy will raise the problem in the army as it looks have discrimination, so two community leaders launched an activity which is called“ everyone can grow your beard“ to against the policy and most people join it. Up to now, we don’t know the result about the activity, but the significant signal is that most people want to have a fair treatment.

In every country, there are specific policies / Every country has its own policies which are suitable for their nation, so I love to read different kinds of news from some apps because they are attractive to me in that they can help me to know the differences of the world. This week, I read a piece of news which is / was about challenging “limit the beard” policy in the army of Israel. From 2016, Israel announced that all soldiers must get the approval from military commanders if they want to grow a beard. The justification for that is based on the religious reasons，that the Orthodox Jews can have the opportunity to grow their beards, but for Secular Jews, they must shave off their beards / remain clean shaven. Many people think the policy will cause problems / issues in the army as it seems like discrimination, so two community leaders launched a campaign which is called“ everyone can grow your beard“ to fight / to speak out against the policy and most people joined it. Up to now, we don’t know the result of the campaign, but there is a clear sign that / it is clear that is that most people want to have a fair treatment.

Grammar

it can work – it works < > it doesn’t work 

similar like that – similar to that (a little different to sth)

Vocabulary

significant = quite a lot
eg. a significant number of my fans are from GZ

family planning policy / single child policy 

even in March, you still need a jacket?
wow it’s already 1PM we better finish class!

everything change every day – everything is up in the air / anything is possible – unpredictable