Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Today I will introduce a new and interesting occupation to you. Before my introduction, I want to share a report which is about “ Chinese sleep survey”, from the report, we find that Chinese adults’s insomnia rate is as high as 38.2% which means more than 300 million people have sleep disorders. Among these people, more than three-fourths people sleep after 11pm, in terms of this, nearly one third people sleep after 1am. Besides that, sleep disorders always accompany with nervous and lonely, so a new occupation which is called “Sleeping master“ was born. Sleeping master is an online service, someone who needs sleep aid，you can connect with the sleep master through online platform, and the sleep master will use different ways to help you fall in sleep base on your request, for example: tale telling, sing a song，have a talk. Surprisingly, the service has been pretty welcomed since it is on air. Now it has become to the top 10 unpopular occupations in Taobao web.

Today I will introduce a new and interesting occupation to you. However, before my introduction, I want to share a report which is about a “Chinese sleep survey”, and from the report, we find that the insomnia rate of / for Chinese adults is as high as 38.2% which means (that) more than 300 million people have sleep disorders. Among these people, more than three quarters of people sleep after 11pm, and nearly one third of them sleep after 1am. Besides that, sleep disorders always accompany with nervousness and loneliness, so a new occupation called “Sleep master“ was born which is an online service for people who need sleep aid. You can connect with the sleep master through an online platform, and the sleep master will use different ways to help you fall asleep based on your request. For example: story telling, singing a song，or having a talk. Surprisingly, the service has been pretty welcomed since launched / started / showed up / it became a thing. Now, it has become to the top 10 less well-kn0wn occupations in Taobao web.

Vocabulary

unpopular – not liked

line up / queue up – pai dui
eg. i lined up to buy an ice cream

I like coffee but in terms of the price, I think it’s not great.
I love dancing but regarding other sports, I think they’re tiring.

1/4 – a quarter
2 /4 – a half
3 / 4 – 3 quarters

at first – originally / sth changed
first – just the first thing
eg. at first I thought mcd was healthy, but then i realised it’s not.
eg2. when i wake up, first I have breakfast and then..

Grammar

it is a large population in china – there is a large population in china / china has a large population 

maybe now it is a little change – maybe now it has changed a little / there has been some change 

play my mobile on bed – use my mobile in bed / play with my mobile in bed 

Pronunciation

insomnia – “in som ni ya” 

toon – ooo
tone – ohh