Online Class Notes (Luca)

Many countries are sending oxygen to India. India is the world’s second largest country, with 1.3 billion people. It is experiencing a big increase in COVID-19 cases. There are over 300,000 new cases every day. India’s hospitals are in trouble. They are turning people with the virus away. There are not enough beds. Many hospitals have no oxygen. Singapore and the UK have sent oxygen to India. India has arranged for Amazon to deliver 100 ventilators.

A spokesperson from Singapore explained how urgent it was to help India. He said this pandemic is a global threat. It does not care what country, nationality or race you are from. He said people must support each other. The WHO said the situation in India was “beyond heartbreaking”. It is doing everything it can to provide equipment and supplies. It said: “The growth that we have seen in case numbers is really, truly astonishing.”

Vocabulary

Threat 心腹之患
e.g He threatened me with a knife

Pandemic (when a lot of people get the same infectious disease and it causes a lot of trouble)
e.g China has managed the COVID 19 pandemic very well
e.g They tried to prevent the pandemic from spreading.

300,000,000 (three hundred million)

30,000,000 (thirty million)

30,000,000,000 (thirty billion)

ventilator ( machines that help people to breath)

Astonishing (surprising)
e.g I was so astonished at how much he had grown
e.g I was very astonished when I saw my salary sheet.

ecology (生态）

lamb (baby sheep)

Toxic (harmful or poisonous)

I am Hr, I usually work about recruitment and do the payroll.

I work in HR, I manage recruitment and the payroll.

My brother lives in Australia, and I want to go to Australia because I think is very good and the veal is very nice. My brother usually send posts a picture pictures in moments in on wechat.