VIP Class Notes (Raph)[W][R]

Vocabulary

Stand out (v): 1- o be very noticeable. 2- to be much better than other similar things or people:
E.g.: The black lettering really stands out on that orange background.
E.g.: We had lots of good applicants for the job, but one stood out from the rest.

Stand up (v): 1- to defend or support a particular idea or a person who is being criticized or attacked:
E.g.: It’s about time we all stood up for our rights around here.
E.g.: Don’t be bullied, learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe in.

Grammar

Have more patient. – Have more patience.

Chinese women spend $30 million on virtual boyfriends
(Source: www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1802/180205-dating-app.html)

A new dating app in China is very popular with women. It is so popular that Chinese women are spending over $30 million a month on it. It is a little different from the usual dating app because the boyfriends are not real. There are just four single men on the app and they are all virtual boyfriends. Women have to role-play dating the four boyfriends. They have to use real money to buy “Purple Diamonds” from the app. They then spend their Purple Diamonds in the app to go on dates and keep their relationships going. The app is called Love and Producer. It is currently the biggest money earner on Apple’s App Store in China. Players spent over 200 million Chinese Yuan ($30 million) on playing it last month.

A market research company said the app has more than two million daily active users. The vast majority of these are women in their early 20s. The company said users love the idea of romance and fun. A 19-year-old student at Wuhan University explained why she liked the app. She said: “It’s like a romantic novel with fascinating voices. It’s more real than reading a novel.” She said she loved the app’s “delicate drawings,” as well as the “great voices” of the four male characters. Another young Chinese woman said: “I don’t have a boyfriend, so I’m happy to have a relationship with a “paper partner”. She also liked getting e-mail and chat messages from her virtual boyfriends.

Original:

At some point in our career, everyone will find themselves sat in a darkened room, eyes staring at a large white screen in front of us, blinking, as slide after slide switches. Some figures show that Microsoft PowerPoint is installed on more than a billion computers worldwide and that there may be up to 30 million PowerPoint presentations created every day.

PowerPoint has empowered us. On the one hand, through some slides we can share and get thousands of creative ideas from everywhere. As a result, it brings creativity into offices and classrooms and also has helped turn us all into presenters. On the other hand, it may also put us in a dilemma. When you have to put all your thoughts in a presentation, there is no doubt that you have to simplify the ideas more or less. Without the presenter, some ideas or thoughts may be lost or be abandoned. The worst thing is we may be distracted by the well-designed slides and ignore the fact that we only get limited information.

If you think PowerPoint only affects the work, you might be wrong. A man tried to find a date on Tinder and succeed. While trying to decide where they should meet, this guy sends his potential date a PowerPoint presentation full of options of things to do. From this man’s perspective, a PowerPoint presentation is a best way to provide options and help the other make a final decision. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as they had been expected. His potential date said nothing but blocked him.

Edited:

At some point in our career, we will all find ourselves sat in a dark room, eyes staring at a large white screen and blinking as slide after slide switch in front of us. Some figures show that Microsoft PowerPoint is installed on more than a billion computers worldwide and that there may be up to 30 million PowerPoint presentations created every day.

PowerPoint has empowered us. On the one hand, we are able to share and get thousands of creative ideas from everywhere just through some slides. As a result, it brings creativity into offices and classrooms, and also helps turn us all into presenters. On the other hand, it may also put us in a dilemma. When you have to put all your thoughts in a presentation, there is no doubt that you have to simplify the ideas to a certain extent, so without the creator personally presenting it, some of those ideas or thoughts may be lost or abandoned. To make matters worse, we may also get distracted by well-designed slides and ignore the fact that we only get some limited information out of them.

If you think PowerPoint only affects people at work, you might be wrong. A man tried to find a date on Tinder and succeeded. While trying to decide where they should meet, this guy sent his potential date a PowerPoint presentation full of options of things to do. From this man’s perspective, a PowerPoint presentation is a best way to provide options and help the other make a final decision. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as he had expected. His potential date said nothing but blocked him.

Pronunciation

Chief: /tʃiːf/

Presentation: /ˌprez.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/

Presenter: /prɪˈzen.t̬ɚ/

Present (n/adj): /ˈprez.ənt/

Present (v): /prɪˈzent/

Creativity: /ˌkri·eɪˈtɪv·ɪ·t̬i/

Creative: /kriˈeɪ.t̬ɪv/

Creator: /kriˈeɪ.t̬ɚ/

Record (n): /ˈrek.ɚd/

Record (v): /rɪˈkɔːrd/

Character: /ˈker.ək.tɚ/

Vast: /væst/