02/19/2024

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 02/19/2024
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: 'Better than real men': Young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends
Link: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/13/asia-pacific/social-issues/chinese-women-ai-boyfriends/
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶arboretum /aar-br-ee-tm/
▶pseudonym /soo-duh-nim/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌confide (verb): To tell someone you trust about personal things.

Example sentence: She confided in her friend about her worries.

📌arboretum (noun): A place where many different types of trees and shrubs are grown for scientific study, educational purposes, or simply for enjoyment.

Example sentence: Families often visit the local arboretum to learn about different tree species and enjoy nature walks.

📌paved street (noun): A road or pathway covered with a hard surface made of concrete, asphalt, or other durable materials.

Example sentence: The city spent weeks repairing the paved streets downtown to improve driving conditions for commuters.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: What we have done whenever we met was having lunch and coffee, but this time we went to indoor garden. We did a bit different things.
✔Better say: We always just had lunch and coffee whenever we met, but this time we went to an indoor garden. We did something a bit different. //// Instead of lunch and coffee, we did something different this time: we went to an indoor garden.

✖You said:  I just walk on asphalt street. // In daily life, I walk artificial street covered with asphalt.
✔Better say: I usually walk on paved streets. // In daily life, I often walk on paved streets.

✖You said: In China, new application made in Shanghai is popular which is provide people like having friends even romantic relationship.
✔Better say: A new application developed in Shanghai, China, has become popular because it helps people make friends and even romantic relationships (but with AI.) //// There's a popular new app in China from Shanghai that lets people find friends and even romantic partners.

✖You said: Even when we have conflict in our relationship that can make the relationship better and we can learn something from others.
✔Better say: Even when we have conflicts in our relationship, they can make the relationship better, and we can learn something from them. // Even when we have conflict in our relationship, it can make the relationship stronger and help us learn from each other.

✖You said:  It talk to you only what you want.
✔Better say:  It only talks to you about what you want. // It only tells you what you want to hear. // It only talks the way you want it to.
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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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Course: English Test Course
Book: IELTS