Open F2F Class Notes November 18th (Ben)

Vocabulary

I am interested in analysing this campaign.

analyse 分æž

interested in


common å…±åŒ

an initiative 倡议

This initiative is related to both our jobs, so we have a common discussion topic.


an extension

a knock-off = a bad-quality copy

It’s not an extension of the British project, it’s just a cheap knock-off of it.


get access to sthg

Poor people have no access to education.

If the janitors take all the books away, then the people won’t get access to them.


public welfare 公益事业

Even though it looks like public welfare, I think it’s just a PR exercise and a market entry strategy.


a victimless crime

phoney = fake

They claim to be nice and open, but they are just phoney.


[do action=”corrections”/]

the first of all –> First of all

Even though A, but B –> Even though A, B


Original text

An offline event of book

On the early day of this week, one official wechat account – xinshixiang launched a offline event , named “the challenge of throw books”.

In my opinion, it was an event marketing even though the propose of this event was to initiate more people to read books. The model of this event was as same as British’s campaign. Consumers could take the books go when they found books they liked. But when the event launched in Shanghai, there were lots of unexpected thing happened, such as lots of books were collected by cleaners and those books were not shared target audiences. So that this kind of event is not suitable of shanghai’s environment. The last one , I thought it was just a show to warm up this account for themselves.


Edited version

An offline book event of book

In the early days of this week, one official wechat account named Xinshixiang launched an offline event named “The Big Book-Loss Challenge“.

In my opinion, it was a marketing event even though the purpose of this event/initiative was to encourage more people to read books.

The model of this event was the same as a British‘s campaign where consumers could take the books with them from public places when they found books they liked.

But when the event was launched in Shanghai, there were lots of unexpected thing that happened, such as lots of books being collected by cleaners and those books not being accessed by target audiences.

So that this kind of event is not suitable for Shanghai’s environment.

As for the last reason I don’t like it, I thought it was just a show to attract attention and create a media hype.

such as + something

I like funny things such as movie / big shows / Trump winning the election.

I don’t like being between a rock and a hard place.