Online Class Notes (Tibo)

traditional advertisement may not work on the young generation. / the young generation is not very receptive to traditional ads
Most of the young generation don’t watch tv or read magasines. They watch livestreams or short videos.

I think most companies should do that or otherwise they will lose a lot of customers.

If I want to buy something I will do research, in that case live-streamers or influencers may influence my choice / I may rely on content creators 

it seems farmers in Europe are going from a tough time

There are some lawsuits about vloggers’ comment on some product which may not be real. / there are lawsuits related to vloggers deceiving their audience
In China we have a lot of land to grow food, I think the Chinese never worry about agriculture.
Based on my knowledge we started to learn some new tech from abroad to improve the techniques.  / based on what I know we improved our agricultural technique by importing some foreign technology.
For example for rice they changed or invented some tech and we have high quality rice. -> For rice we moved toward GM rice / Gm crops.

It reminds me of Prague, it has a beautiful graffiti street.
the people who borrow from loan sharks and cannot pay back they may see graffitti outside their door.

For the rice we are all eating gm crops and we don’t know what will happen.

For people who are in state owned companies they don’t worry about that.
Their pension is pretty much equal to their salary.

Compared to people who work in private companies, we earn more than them but if we talk about pensions, ours will be lower than theirs.
So we need to set up pension plans.

If we foresee, most likely it could be inflation in recent years -> I foresee inflation increasing in the near future 

when I drive to work I always listen to the morning news but when I drive home after work I listen to music.
I also have another ritual, when I have time consuming work to do, I turn on/play some classical music. It helps inspire me.
I feel energetic and more focused.

I think it is a natural phenomenon.
people are so minor if we put ourselves in the universe -> people don’t have much of an impact on the scale of the universe/

Vocabulary

to deceive (v) to lie by not disclosing details or making think something that is not true
Many influencers are deceiving people

deceiving advertising (n) ads that make you believe or imply something that is not true

hoax (n) something that is not true but that some people believe
Some people say climate change is a hoax from the environmentalists

GM crops (genetically modified crops ) (n) : crops which offer better yields.
Now many people reject GM crops.

lethal (adj) deadly
Tom suffered a lethal wound

to coincide with : happen at the same time as …
The anniversary also coincided with another big event.

riot (n) protest without order
The police was sent to stop the riots

loan shark (n) private organizations or people loaning money at very high interest outside of the banking system.
Tom was desperate, no bank wanted to lend him money and he went to a loan sharks.

graffiti (n) painting on a wall / street style art of painting

content creator (n) people who create content (blogs, articles, videos..)

vloggers (n) people mostly making video content

product placement  (n) when a product is shown in a show / movie / tv series

casket (n) coffin

ritual (n) religious or traditional ceremony / series of action that often repeats
Tom has a ritual, he always flips a coin before going to an important meeting

technology (n) related to machines and computing, processes and application
The invention of the iphone was a huge leap for technology

technique (n) knowledge and precision of how to do something
The blacksmith reached the highest level of technique and now makes very impressive swords

Pronunciation

burial

ritual