06/13/2025

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 06/13/2025
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Celebrity weight-loss drug trend sparks concern over youth misuse
Link: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/trends/20250609/celebrity-weight-loss-drug-trend-sparks-concern-over-youth-misuse
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶ hinge /hinj/
▶ suppress /suh-PRES/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌 comorbidity (noun): when a person has two or more illnesses at the same time
Example sentence: Diabetes and high blood pressure are common comorbidities.

📌 hypertension (noun): the medical word for high blood pressure
Example sentence: The doctor said she has hypertension and needs to eat less salt.

📌 nausea (noun): the feeling that you might vomit (throw up)
Example sentence: He felt nausea after eating too much candy.

📌 give in (verb): to stop saying no and agree to something, often after pressure
Example sentence: I didn’t want to go, but I gave in because my friends insisted.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: I think I heard of it.
✔Better say: I think I've heard of it.

✖You said: The paragraphs is talking about usage of celebrities.
✔Better say: The paragraph is talking about celebrities' use of weight loss drugs.

✖You said: The best way to weight loss is control your diet.
✔Better say: The best way to lose weight is to control your diet.
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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: South Korea cements cultural status with six Tonys for Maybe Happy Ending
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0j71xgrv8o