Global issue#3 North Korean refugees in Korea

Headline: The school teaching North Korean refugees how to live in the South

                             

Leads: Pak Sool marched down a flight of stairs, descending into Seoul’s metro for
the first time at the age of 19, only to stare at the spaghetti-bowl map of the transit
system and then – feeling nervous and embarrassed – simply give up.

Vocabulary

1. canteen ：a small cafeteria or snack bar / 구내식당(군대용어)
2. quirk : odd habit, peculiarity, eccentricity, small difficulty / 기벽, 이상한 버릇
3. march down : 의식적으로 걸어가다
4. confounded : confused; puzzled, befuddled, bewildered, perplexed / 당황하다
5. monumental : massive, very great, very important / 엄청나게 큰, 기념비적인
6. overwhelming : something so awesome it overpowers your thoughts or feelings /
     압도적인
7. smuggle to : illegally bring things into a country / 밀입국하다, 밀수하다
8. handler : someone who manage, control, or operate / 담당자, 취급자
9. trafficking : the activity of buying and selling goods or people illegally / 밀거래, 밀매
10. abducted : kidnapped / 납치된
11. hook : a thing designed to catch people's attention / 관심을 끄는 것, 중독되는 것
    (hooked 중독되다)
12. assimilate : to absorb or become absorbed; to make or become similar /
    (지식, 정보) 완전히 이해하다, 흡수하다; 동화되다
13. euphoria : sense of great happiness or well-being, optimism / 행복감, 희열
14. lull : a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished / 일시적 잠잠함, 소강상태; 달래다, 어르다, 재우다
15. chasm : a big gap, deep, gaping hole; a gorge / 깊게 갈라진 틈, 간격, 차이
16. unsentimental not emotional; unaffected by emotional matters / 감정적이지 않은
17. counterpart : a person or thing closely resembling or corresponding to another;
    a complement /대응물 , 상대방
18. disparity : a great difference / 격차, 불일치
19. drop out : quit a class, school etc / 낙제하다, 중퇴하다
20. play out : way something happens / 일어나다, 발생하다

Quizlet: related to above article

Global issue#4 McDonald's Korea

Headline:  McDonald's celebrates 30 years in Korea

-Company vows to continue providing the tastiest fod and best price (←linked)

Lead: On March 29, McDonald’s celebrated its 30th anniversary in Korea. The fast food chain first entered the country in 1988, the same year as the Seoul Summer Olympics, and for the past 30 years, it has contributed to the development of Korea’s fast food industry.

Words

1. vow :　맹세하다 / (n.) a solemn or sacred promise or pledge; (v.) to declare or promise in a solemn way
2. jaded :　지친, 지긋지긋한, 싫증난 / (adj.) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)
3. burgeoning : 급증하는, 급성장하는 / expanding or growing rapidly
4. suburban : 교외, 근교/ relating to a residential area outlying a city
5. touted : 장점을 내세우다 / publicly praised; talk it up
6. kiosk : 매점,가판대 / A small structure used as a newsstand, bandstand, etc.
7. palate : 미각 / sense of taste
8. dreamy : (남자가)잘생긴 a vague or soft look on a face
9. steamy : (남성이) 잘생긴 / sexy, hot
10. mandate : 요구하다, 명령하다 / an order or command placed in one's hands
11. subsidiary : n. 자회사; 보조물 a. 보조물; 종속적인 / a company that is completely controlled by another company

Quizlet

Global issue#3 Stephen Hawking

Headline: Hawking won the world’s respect - and gave disabled people like me hope

Lead: As with most of the famous figures whose passing now hits us via a news alert on our phones, I never met Stephen Hawking. In the vastness of the entire universe, you could say I was one speck and he was another. And yet I thought of him as a continual presence in my life, who – perhaps paradoxically, in the light of his illness, not to mention of his work on time – would always be there, somehow.

Words

- Eulogy: 추도연설(Eulogize: 추도 연설하다)

- Speck: n.dust, 작은 얼룩이나 반점 (Not a speck of~ / ~한 점 없다)

- Vastness: huge 광대한

- Paradoxically: 역설적으로

- Confound: ~이 틀렸음을 입증하다. (confound expectations)

- Without faults: perfect

- Regressive: Old style thinking 퇴행하는

- Condescend: talk down

- Cliches: stereotype which overused

- Plague: 전염병

- Maswplaning: to explain sth to a woman with ignoring
                            (ex.This is man's thing. you don't know.)

- Cut him a lot of slack: ~에 관대하다

- World-renowned: Famous and respected

- Verge on: about to

- Inherently: 태생적으로

- Pluck: inner strength
- Ableist: 장애인 차별주의자 (cf. Sexualist: 성차별주의자)

- Misconception: Wrong idea

Quizlet

Global issue #2 Privacy or the rule?

Headline: Winner of $560 million Powerball jackpot can keep the money and her secret, judge rules

Leads: The mysterious winner of a $560 million lottery ticket who fought to keep her identity a secret is allowed to stay anonymous, a judge ruled Monday.

Vocabulary

- Annuity: 연금

- anonymity: 익명성

- No Solicitors: No salespeople

- Harassment: 괴롭힘
- Disclosed: Open, reveal
- Solely: only

- Outweigh: ~보다 더 크다
- Out of the public eye: keep it private

- Attorney: lawyer

- Exempt: ~이 면제되는
- Unscrupulous: 부도덕한, cheat, criminal

- Morph: change like a transformer

- self-inflicted: 자초한, You did it yourself
- Lawsuit: 소송, 고소

- Myriad: various

- Befall: face, 닥치다

- Siphon: take a little bit

Quizlet: related to above article

Global issue #1 Machine and Environment

#1 Headline: Rage against the machine

Lead: The great promise of self-driving cars is that they will save innumerable lives by removing the most fallible and unpredictable element from vehicle traffic: the human.

#2 Headline: New Zealand company offers employees $10 a day to cycle to work

Sub-headline: Christchurch advertising firm says workers could feel energized by the exercise – and the money

Lead: A Christchurch company is offering hard cash to employees who bike to work every day in a bid to energize staff and move the city away from a reliance on cars.

• Thinkable issues in the classroom (related to this article)

       1. How do you come to school?
       2. What can you do for the mother nature?
       3. Did you do good deeds from your heart or for your benefits?
       4. What incentives do you want?
       5. How long does it take to get to school?
       6. How do companies affect the society?

Quizlet: Words from two articles above

Parts of a newspaper: video lesson

Introduction some vocabulary of the newspaper front page.

Task after watching : find each part from a new front page

Related to this Topic:

Parts of a_newspaper from LourdesM7

• Front Page 
• A headline, Byline, Dateline
• Types of Articles: News, Feature articles, Editorials
• Sections of a newspaper: weather, sports, classifieds, news, entertainment, obituaries

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