06/23/2023

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 06/23/2023
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Canada will start putting health warnings on individual cigarettes. It will be the first country to do so
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/31/health/canada-first-country-cigarette-individual-warnings/index.html
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶leukemia /loo-KEE-mee-uh/
▶puff /puhf/
▶precedent /PREH-si-dent/
▶labeling /LEY-buh-ling/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌leukemia (noun) - a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, leading to an abnormal production of white blood cells

Example: He was diagnosed with leukemia and started chemotherapy to treat the abnormal growth of white blood cells.

📌puff (verb) - to smoke tobacco

Example: He sat there, puffing away at a cigarette.

📌precedent (noun) - an action, situation, or decision that has already happened and can be used as a reason why a similar action or decision should be performed or made

Example: Some politicians fear that agreeing to the concession would set a dangerous precedent.

📌measure (noun) - a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with a situation

Example: These measures were designed to improve car safety.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: Canada government want to reduce the premature death of people and they think the smoking is one of the major problem. To reduce smoke users, they make new rule to put warning message on each cigarette.
✔Better say: The Canadian government wants to reduce premature deaths and considers smoking as one of the major problems. To reduce smoking rates/To reduce the number of smokers, they have implemented a new rule to put warning messages on each cigarette

✖You said: I'm not sure if it's effective to reduce actual rate of smokers, but anyway it will have some impact on smokers.
✔Better say: I'm not sure if it will be effective in reducing the actual rate of smokers, but it will certainly have some impact on smokers.

✖You said: It will give them some uncomfortability.
✔Better say: It will make them feel uncomfortable.

✖You said: If you are young people, if you are non-smokers, then the message and the image on the package are more noticeable.
✔Better say: If you are a young non-smoker, you are more likely to notice the message and image on the cigarette package.

✖You said: There were classmates who smoke. It seems for them to smoke because it looked cool.
✔Better say: I had classmates who smoked because they thought it looked cool.
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🔴 Homework:
Please take note of what you learned in this lesson and apply it in your future conversations.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Sushi chain sues high school student who licked soy sauce bottle for $480,000
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/09/asia/sushi-chain-sues-boy-licked-soy-sauce-bottle-intl-hnk/index.html

Sushi chain sues high school student who licked soy sauce bottle for $480,000 | CNN