Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Yesterday I have been attracted by a news headline: Say bye to over consumption, only use 300 Yuan in one month, all family belongs are in one suitcase. And I curious about that, so I read it carefully and knew the details. The host of the story is a young girl in Beijing, she has tried the “ Freegan” lifestyle from Nov of 2020. During these 4 months, except the property fee and medical fee, she has controlled her monthly expense within RMB300 which has included meals and transportation The Freegan lifestyle started from Europe, after the financial crisis of 2008, some people suggest return to human basic consumption and minimalism lifestyle, also fight the irrational consumption. In some foreign countries, the people who are Freegan are willing to share resources or find the recycle things from canteen or supermarket’s trash to convince they can live on surplus. For me, Freegan is good at environment protection, but meanwhile I am afraid that will cause another extremely behavior, if a person pursues less and less, he may lose enthusiasm for life，how do you think that?

Yesterday I was attracted by a news headline: Say bye to over consumption, and only use 300 Yuan in one month, all family belongings are in one suitcase. And I was curious about that, so I read it carefully and knew the details. The subject of the story is a young girl in Beijing, who / and she has been trying the “ Freegan” lifestyle since Nov of 2020. During these 4 months, except the property fee / rent / rental costs and medical fees, she has controlled her monthly expense within RMB300 which includes meals and transportation. The Freegan lifestyle started from / in Europe, and after the financial crisis of 2008, some people suggested returning to human basic consumption and a minimalistic lifestyle, and also fight the irrational consumption. In some foreign countries, the people who are Freegan are willing to share resources or find the recycled things from the trash of canteens or supermarket to convince themselves / others they can live like that. For me, Freegan is good for environmental protection, but meanwhile I am afraid that it will cause another extreme behavior, if a person pursues less and less, he may lose enthusiasm / passion for life，what do you think about that? / what do you think?

Grammar

How do you think = what do you use to think? – my brain
What do you think = your ideas / opinion
How do you feel = your feeling

good at – skill / ability
eg. I’m good at photography = my skill of photography
good for – useful / suitable
eg. it’s good for sth = the use of it / it’s suitable / useful

have done (general, recently, life) / did (specific)
have been / was

extreme / extremely
current / currently
exact / exactly
eg. I am extremely busy / I run extremely fast
eg2. This sport is extreme 

extremely case – extreme case 

we must remote a lot of things – we must do a lot of things remotely 

take care the currently job – take care of my current job 

calculate the exactly time – exact time

that’s different with the advertising making – that’s different from / to advertising production  

Vocabulary

surplus 
eg. I grew 20 tomatoes but I only need to eat 5 of them, so I have 15 surplus tomatoes

he can get the balance – he can get the rest of the food 

minimalism (n)
minimalistic (adj)
minimalist (n)
eg. he’s a minimalist / he has a minimalistic lifestyle

consider all of these background – factors 

frugal – sb who cares about saving / not spending too much