Online Class Notes (Mike)

sufficient = enough = adequate = ample = abundant

Choose a topic and write about it.
1. The pros and cons of China’s education system.
2. What is your thoughts on double-reduction? (双减政策)
3. Do pupils have too much homework nowadays?
4. How do you want to educate your kid when you are a mom?

Vocabulary

murder (v) 谋杀 – murderer (n)
He was murdered by X.

adapt (v) adjust to 
The younger generation can adapt to new things/technology easier/faster than us. 
adopt (v) 领养

compelling (v) make sb believe sth, to touch/move sb 引人入胜的/扣人心弦/强烈的/不可以抗拒/令人服气/令人信服/有说服力
The story of how she changed her life through education is quite compelling.
Your answer is not compelling. I am not convinced.

community/junior college: 大专

well-respected:
XXX is a well-respected doctor in China.

Grammar

die from Covid: covid kills me

die with Covid: I have covid, something else (accidents, other diseases) kills me.

From the whole society, education can improve the level of cognitive of people, they can have a better society. In more well-organized societies,
Education can reduce the society’s illiteracy ratio/percentage, it can also give people a skill by which they can make a stable and decent living.

Having an education, people can get rid of the previous/past life. Change his/her life by a person’s effort.
Having a good education means that you don’t have to do hard physical work anymore, you will have many choices. It can broaden their horizon and give people a chance see the world outside of their own circle. People can also make meaningful connections/have resources from the the outside world.

They receive a lot of knowledge from different aspects.
They are exposed to many things that we were did not have to chance to know when we were young.

She has a poor background.
She comes from a tough background.

go to the college.
Go to college.

there is a large need to nurse.
There was a strong need/demand for nurses in Singapore at that time.

The intensity of her work was unbearable. 

Nobody had ever thought that the situation in SH would be this bad.