Open F2F Class Notes 22nd June (Harmony) [1]

Insist:  to say something strongly, and now allow an alternative. 

Hype

Verb:  to excite/create interest/ intensify advertising.

Eg.  We want to create hype for the lipstick festival.

Eg.  We want to hype up the crowd before the concert.

Noun:  exaggerated publicity.

Eg.  There was a lot of hype about wearing sprouts on your head in Beijing.

Story retell:

Original:

My colleagues and I talked about children’s day yesterday, and I found that we all want to have a children’s day again. Not only we can get one day off, but also we all want to go back to being a child again so that we don’t need to be worried about work, money and anything else annoying as an adult. It is an interesting social phenomenon that some adults, especially from 25-35, desire to be a child again and miss our childhood so much. In our childhood, children’s day was a big day for us. Our parents also ask for leave to take us to a park and buy some food that we always wanted to eat, like KFC which was a dream food of our generation as it waspretty expensive and we could only eat 2 or 3 times in a year.

Retell:

Today is children’s day and I talked about children’s day with my colleagues yesterday.  We all thought that we want to have children’s day again because we all want to go back to being a child. We want to be a child again so that we don’t need to be concerned about money and the responsibilities of being an adult.  There’s an interesting social phenomenon that adults between 25-35 all want to go back to being a child.  We recalled our past children’s days, when I was a child children’s day is maybe the most important thing for me during the year. my parents would ask for leave to take me to the park during the day and buy some delicious food. for me it was my dream food: KFC.  Because it was expensive for us at that time and we might eat it only two or three times during a year.

*** slow down, remember first then speak.

Eg.  I will go back to doing my work.

Eg.  I will go back to being a child.

Eg.  I will go back to cleaning my house.

Original:

Insurance

It’s time to buy some insurances for us, which I tell myself after my father had a disease. There are a lot of types of insurance, life, serious diseases, property, accident, etc. I looked some references about them and tried to figure out the best cost-performance one. However, I find it is too many insurance types to compare all of them and choose the best one. The most important thing is not to choose, but think what’s your proposal, to ensure the life quality would not low dramatically or make money. I got much information and suggestion from Qunaer, a Q&A social platform, and I found there are many people asked similar question about insurance. I should prioritize the life insurance, because as a main force in a family, I have to be responsible for my wife, my parents and my child in future. If I passed, they would obtain a great sum of money to ensure their life.
Damon told me her colleague’ father has gone suddenly today, and I think I have to buy insurances as soon as possible.

Edited:

Insurance

It’s time to buy some insurance for us, which I told myself after my father had a disease. There are a lot of types of insurance, life, serious diseases, property, accident, etc. I looked up some references about them and tried to figure out the best cost-performance one. However, I find there are too many insurance types to compare all of them and choose the best one. The most important thing is not to choose, but think about your objective, to ensure the life quality would not drop/decline dramatically or to make money. I got some/a lot of information and suggestions from Zhihu, a Q&A social platform, and I found there are many people asking similar question about insurance. I should prioritize the life insurance, because as a main force in my family, I have to be responsible for my wife, my parents and my child in the future. If I passed, they would obtain a great sum of money to ensure their life quality.
Damon told me her colleague’s father has gone suddenly today, and I think I have to buy insurances as soon as possible.

Etc. etcetera: (et – set – er – ah) – say etcetera out loud when reading it.

Type: And so on, if you want to use it.