Online Class Notes (Mike)

Write about an illness you had.

So you’re between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. What makes you happy? There have been lots of surveys about teenagers and happiness and they all come to different conclusions. Some surveys say that most young people are happiest when they spend time with their family. Others say it’s when they’re with friends. Some teenagers think that getting good marks at school and passing exams makes them happy and others feel that it’s having a boyfriend or girlfriend that improves their lives. The problem is that there isn’t just one thing that makes everyone happy. Happiness is something different for each of us, and what made us happy last week might not make us happy next week!

However, there are some things that can help improve our mood when we’re feeling unhappy. Experts believe that exercise can make you a happier person – but how? Exercise releases chemicals in your brain that are related to a feeling of pleasure. Many people who exercise say that the more exercise they do, the more they want to do. Now we know why! In addition to this, exercise is also good for our physical health. So, if we know that we’re doing something healthy, that should make us even happier!

There’s another surprising idea to help make us happier. Although you might think that eating chocolate is bad for you, it seems that it is good to eat chocolate when we’re feeling sad. According to some research, experts say that eating chocolate can make us feel happy. Of course it isn’t healthy to eat too much, but chocolate releases chemicals in the same way that exercise does – and for some people it’s easier and quicker than running several kilometres or working out in the gym!

It’s also important to remember that we can’t all be happy all the time. There are times in our lives when things are going well and we feel good. But we can also we happy for brief moments and we should value these as well. For example, perhaps you’re sitting on a beach watching the sun on the water, with friends around you, and you feel happy. Remember that moment! Or maybe your dog does something silly that makes you laugh. Remember it! And when you feel sad, go for a run or eat some chocolate – you’ll soon cheer up!

When you ask more people about the benefits of apps on their smartphone, they say they use them to play games, surf the net, keep in touch with people and organise social events. But Jenny Harlow, a scientist from London, has got an app that does something much more important: it warns her when she is in danger. The app is called Safety Tips and it gives users real-time earthquake and tsunami warnings. The Japan Tourist Agency had the idea for the app after the 2011 earthquake in Japan, when many foreign tourists in the country were confused about what was happening and what they should do. Jenny was on a business trip to Japan when the earthquake struck. ‘Although there are a lot of earthquakes in Japan, it was the first time I experienced one. All the warnings and information on the internet, radio and TV were in Japanese, and I couldn’t understand. It was really confusing and I didn’t know what to do.’ She had to rely on Japanese colleagues to help her.

The Safety Tips app sends an alert to users when a major earthquake happens, and also tells them if a tsunami is likely to arrive at the coast. The app gives lots of tips about what to do, where to go and how to stay safe, as well as a list of useful Japanese phrases such as ‘Is this an earthquake?’ and ‘Is it safe here?’ Importantly, all the information is in English, and there are plans to add other languages. The Japan Tourist Agency plans to advertise the app at airports and tourist information centres in Japan. In order to get the app, people visit a website and download it. ‘I’m coming to Japan again next year and I will definitely watch out for alerts from the app,’ says Jenny.

What are the annoying things Covid?

At the beginning lockdown am very angry, I don’t know what to do, I called my friend told her, Our plan will be postponed. I can’t go out, can’t earn money, am cried many time, my mom called to persuade me. she said “keep healthy don’t gain weight.”
Make nucleic acid every day, the supplies are received every few days.
lockdown life felt so depressed, It’s boring every day.
Online shopping will become difficult, No Express, Everything got really bad, I don’t know how to finished this life, I just want hanging!

What are the annoying things Covid?

At the beginning of lockdown I was very angry, I didn’t know what to do. I called my friend and told her that our plan will be postponed/delayed. I couldn’t go out nor earn money. I even cried many times, my mom called to persuade me. She said “keep healthy and don’t gain weight.”
I did Covid test everyday. The supplies are received every few days.

I felt depressed during the lockdown. Life was boring every day.
Online shopping was difficult, No Express. Everything got really bad, I didn’t know how to spend my days. I just wanted to go out and meet my friends.

In 2008, Alex Lenkei had a problem with the bone in his arm and he needed a serious operation. Normally, with an operation like that, the doctor gives the patient an (anaesthetic )so that he or she doesn’t feel any pain. But Lenkei (refused )the anaesthetic. Instead, he (hypnotised) himself and simply told himself that he could not feel any pain. That took about thirty seconds. Then the operation started. (According) to Mr Lenkei, pain (signals) do not (reach )his( brain )when he is hypnotised. 

The doctor, David Llewellyn-Clerk, was a bit/a little/a little bit worried. He had to take some bone from Lenkei’s arm. He watched Lenkei carefully during the operation, as he wasn’t sure that Lenkei could feel no pain. ‘I didn’t think Mr Lenkei could hear us,’ said Dr Llewellyn-Clerk, ‘but half way through the operation, he said “How’s it going?”’ That’s when the doctor realised that Lenkei was not in pain. The operation lasted 83 minutes.

Mr Lenkei started hypnotising people when he was sixteen and is now an (expert). It wasn’t his first operation without (anaesthetic). In 1996, a friend hypnotised him before a thirty-minute operation on his (stomach). Both operations were successful, so Lenkei had a third operation without (anaesthetic) in 2013.

Vocabulary

persuade (v)
persuade sb to do sth 说服/劝说某人做某事

tell sb that

delay (v) = postpone (v)

both A and B:
Both me and my friend were locked down.

could not do A nor B

even 甚至

often (adv.)
I often go to that restaurant.

time (不可数名词)时间
(可数)次数

one time = once
two times = twice

depressing (adj.)
depressed (adj.)

nucleic acid (n) 核酸

Do a Covid test 做核酸
I need to do covid test once every three days.

deliver (v) 传达，传送
delivery (n) 快递
My delivery arrived this morning.

finish this life

hang (v) 悬挂，挂，上吊
Hang the clothes in the balcony. 阳台
hang out 玩

signal (n) 信号，指示
I lost my signal.
sign (v) 签字
Please sign here.
(n) 标志
signature (n) 签名
I can’t read his signature.

reach (v) 达到，够得到，伸开
The kid can’t reach it.

brain (n) 大脑
brain damage 脑损伤

head (n) 头

operation (n) 运营

anaesthetic (n) 麻醉药

refuse (v) 拒绝
refuse to do sth.
refuse sb/sth
I refused to do a covid test.
The girl refused his proposal. 拒绝他的求婚

hypnotise oneself/sb

according to 根据
According to the report, many people left SH.

realise (v) 意识到
I realised I was wrong.

relax (v) 放松

last (v) 持续
last (adj.) 最后的

expert (n) 专家
cancer expert 癌症专家

stomach (n) 肚子

stomachache (n) 肚子疼

fever (n) 发烧
Have a high fever 发高烧

cough (v/n) 咳嗽

a running nose 流鼻涕
I had a running nose for one week.

sneeze (v)
I sneezed a lot when I had that cold.

sour (adj.) （食物的味道）酸

sore (adj.) （身体）酸疼
My body was sore.

headache (n) 头疼

ache (n/v) （局部微小的） 痛

pain (n) （精神或肉体的）疼痛

appetite (n) 食欲

Last winter, I had a really bad cold.

I had a fever that lasted 3 days and I did not have any appetite.

My friend gave me some medicine and I took them 3 times a day.

After 5 days of resting at home, I felt much better.

In a week, I was able to go back to work again.

Grammar

表频率：

次数 + every + 时间

Once every three days.
I study English two times/twice every week.
I exercise 10 times every month. = I exercise 10 times a month.

spend: 主语是人
take: 主语是物

I took one hour doing my homework.
I spend one hour …..

Sth take sb + time
My homework took me one hour.

It takes 4 hours to go from SH to BJ.
It took me two hours to find him.