VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

reality show: zhen ren xiu

garner: 获得; 收集(信息、支持等)

hazard: danger 危险; 危害
ie. occupational hazard

shoulder: (v) bear, take on
ie. I shoulder the responsibility of correcting your pronunciation

counter-intuitive: 跟直觉反着的

odd one out: 格格不入

big shot：大人物

cliche：俗气的
ie. The boss and the secretary is so cliche.

unwind: relax解开; 放松; 打开; 松开(卷绕之物); 轻松

Grammar

no matter + noun
ie. no matter our race or color
ie. no matter how difficult it is
ie. no matter what you want

A reality show that invites celebrities to experience different kinds of jobs began airing on video-sharing platform Mango TV on Dec 10.

The show, titled Wo Men De Gun Tang Ren Sheng (We’re living passionate lives), has garnered more than 117 million views on the platform with its first episode, according to the box office tracker Maoyan.

In the first episode, participants traveled to Urumqi, capital of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to learn about fire hazard prevention from the city’s fire brigade. Alongside local firefighters, the participants undertook intensive physical trainings, equipped themselves with fire hazard prevention knowledge and even went out to rescue people in emergencies for several days. By following the celebrities‘ footsteps, viewers could get closer to the occupation and learn/gain better understanding on the brave, heroic group of firefighters.

The show aims to connect a larger group of audiences to different grass-root occupations, highlighting the great sense of responsibility shouldered by many common people from various (not virus) walks of life.

Highlighting/Only focusing/sometimes focusing on my pronunciation, the lessons aims to improve my English.

The lessons aims to improve my English, especially my pronunciation.

Celebrity participants include Hong Kong actors Jordan Chan and Julian Cheung, actor Zhang Jin and singer Zhang Qi.

I like the comedy show I’ve seen last weekend. The name of the show is Once-in-a-year-comedy-competition. It’s a contest of comedy show. Different group of people prepared the show which are related to reality life from subtle perspectives. It was very popular in platform since it can make people laughing and it deeply arouse people’s awareness to certain group of people. The purpose of this programme is to encourage people to have a positive attitude to the life no matter you’re in a bad situation and meanwhile it reflects some society phenomenon and criticize the … My favorite part is that I can release myself when there’s a good joke or …

I like the comedy show I saw last weekend. The name of the show is Once-in-a-year-comedy-competition. It’s a comedy show contest. Different groups of people prepared the shows which are related to the subtle perspectives of reality(n)/real life. It was very popular on IQY platform since it can make people laugh but at the same time, make people reflect on the small things in their own lives/inspire people to reconsider themselves and their lives.  The purpose of this programme is to encourage people to have a positive attitude towards/on life no matter how bad the situation is/ regardless of your situation in life/no matter what you’re going through in life. Meanwhile it reflects some society phenomenons and criticizes the negativity/negative customs/trends in our society today. My favorite part is that I can release my pressure/unwind when there’s a good joke. /I hear a good joke.

Pronunciation

strange = stray + en (not in)+ ge

k = small “k”

tracker

bag beg

back

hundred – hundrid not “hundrerd”

fire hazard