Reasons Why Food on the Go are much preferable?

 

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Many people live a busy life and have lesser time to make food for their families. Due to their hectic schedule from work, child-rearing and travel, they often prefer to have  Convenience foods are the kind of food that economize time in preparing and cleaning up like  are restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food from grocery stores. The ready-to-eat food includes different types of food  from bananas to frozen pizza that needs little or no preparation. Even if these convenience foods save time, they are likely to have lesser nutritional values and can be more costly. According to the USDA [United States Department of Agriculture, they investigated how the different aspects affects foods with changing the  degree of convenience that consumers buy.  It was found that employed adults obtain 12% less ready-to-eat food from grocery shops and 72% more food from full-service restaurants than households in which not all adults are working.

They also mentioned that having children also affects the food choices of parents since they believe that their offsprings will eat it. A family with children  purchase 19 % more fast-food meals and 38 percent less full-service restaurant meals than families nevertheless, as the number of children in the household increases, they obtain more foods from grocery stores and less from restaurants. Moreover, single parents,  purchase 14 % more ready-to-eat foods than all other households.  Another factor that plays an important role in convenience food choices is the financial resources. foods from fast-foods or full service restaurants turn to be more expensive than the food that could be bought from grocery stores. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) supports program members  with funds to procure food from grocery stores. 

VOCABULARY: ​Look for the meaning of the words below then practice using them in making your sentences.

1.  hectic

2.   economize

3.  costly

4. investigated

5. obtain

6.  offsprings

7.  full service

8.  ​financial resources

9.  Supplemental 

10.  procure

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:  ​ Express more of your ideas about the topic. 

What do you think about "food on the go"?

What did you understand in the article?

What do you think of Convenience foods?

What do you think are other factors that makes people decide to buy Convenience foods  than preparing it themselves?

Is it also same in your country?

Which do you prefer home-cooked food or convenience food? Why?

How does this issue affect our economy? Does it make our economy better or worse?

SOURCE:

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2018/07/24/what-drives-consumers-purchase-convenience-foods

DATING LEAVE?

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Are you single? Female and over 30 years old?  There's good news for single ladies. In China, there are two companies offering "dating leaves". Hangzhou Songcheng Performance and Hangzhou Songcheng Tourism Management encourage single workers to go out and socialize by providing them extra 8 days of leave in addition to their 7 days Lunar New Year recess.  The new rule was declared last January 21st after Dinglan Experimental Middle School agreed to give a "love leave" to single and childless teachers last January 15.  

Women in China who are over the 30s are judged as "leftover women" meaning they are those who were left unmarried when they were in their mid-20s to 30s.  It is said they are less desirable for men and for that reason, they have to hurry and look for their life partners before their time is up.  Furthermore, there's a high expectation for women to give more emphasis on their careers that result in being single, marrying late, and staying unmarried all throughout their lives.

VOCABULARY:

1.  socialize

2.  in addition

3.  recess

4.  declared

5.  childless

6.  leftover

7.  unmarried

8.  time up

9.  expectation

10. emphasis

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:  

What comes to your mind when you hear the word DATING?

What do you think about what you have read?

What is your opinion about the DATING LEAVE?

At what age have you started dating?

In your observation, at what age do people in your country start dating?

In your opinion, when should a person start dating? why?

[If married] How did you meet your partner?

Are you in favor of this DATING LEAVE? why?

How do you know if the person you are dating will be your LIFE PARTNER?

What are the characteristic of the person you would like to date? 

Share your experience about dating.

Source: 

https://www.elitereaders.com/companies-offer-dating-leave-to-single-female-employees-over-30-years-old/?fbclid=IwAR13com-57QeLtdWAZeguvhJ_w6MjdGcY5y1RvF-Pg17AZ2kUJNk4vh7LGE

Forced Organ Donation

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Last November 14, 2019, A scholastic study casts doubts on Beijing, China’s assertion to have resolved the force-harvesting of internal organs from prison inmates. It is said that the Middle Kingdom, the literal meaning of China in Chinese, has been involved in the “ingrained fabrication” of free-willed organ aid. In research circulated in the peer-reviewed periodical BMC Medical Ethics, three professors reviewed China’s conclusive interstate and local transplant statistics and found out that it was probably a counterfeit based on an “Arithmetical Replica.” To prove that China had ceased the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners and currently taking only from volunteers, it has started extracting the voluntary benefaction data 10 years ago. However, according to Matthew Robertson, one of the authors told AFP that they surveyed official data from 2010 to 2016 and discovered that there were many signs of fabrication. 

Mr. Robertson said stated that it was it probable but "exceptionally farfetched" that the quadratic formula would be coincidentally accurate. The investigation also showed inconsistency in stats provided by the Red-Cross, including the time when the number of transplanted organs per benefactor was around 20 which is a medical impossibility. The dissertation’s conclusion is already arousing demands for medical cooperation with China to be suspended. A clinical ethics professor, Wendy Rogers told the AFP that it was too early to believe in everything that China says without any close examination. She added that there should be a suspension on any commitment with China regarding transplantation which includes scientific conferences, publications of papers, and others. 

 

VOCABULARY:  Look for the meaning of the words below then practice using them in making your sentences. 

1. scholastic 

2. assertion 

3. ingrained 

4.  interstate 

5. extracting 

6. farfetched 

7.  inconsistency 

8. dissertation 

9. transplantation  

10. conferences 

DISCUSSION: Express more of your ideas about the topic. 

What did you imagine when you read the headline: ‘Forced Organ Donation’? 

What do you think of what you have read in the article? 

What do you think about organ transplants? 

Is there an organ donation program in your country? What do you think about it? 

What do you think about China forcing prisoners to donate their organs? 

If you are a benefactor of an organ from a prisoner who was forced to donate, are you going to accept it? Why? 

What should WHO do to stop force organ donation? 

What punishment should be given to a country to who practice this kind of donation system? 

Are you willing to donate your organ? Why/Why not? 

SOURCE: 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-accused-of--falsifying--organ-donation-data-12094530

Children Under 15 are Banned from Using Smartphones in France

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At any time of the day, school children under 15 in France are not allowed to use their smartphones according to the new comprehensive policy.  The elementary and junior high school students all over the country will be affected by the restriction which was passed in July following the assurance given by the French President Emmanuel Macron. The newly implemented rule which took effect last August 5, 2019 prohibits not only cellular phones but tablets and smartwatches as well.  The regulation regarding the restriction of cellphones was started way back in 2010 that now extends to breaks and mealtimes.  The educational institutions have the liberty to make a decision whether they will execute the new order for students over 15 or not. Impaired learners are just one of the exemptions to the rule.  

Halting the usage of phones in schools was one of now French President Emmanuel Macron’s promise while barnstorming for president. According to the Associated Press, students have to shut down their mobile phones at day time or keep them in their lockers under the new policy. It also said that the school will solely deal systematization of how school children will be staved off from their phones. Despite the fear that pupils were becoming very dependent on and distressed by their smartphones, the new regulation was introduced. In June, Jean Michel Blanquer, the Education mister called the legislation “a law for the 21st century.” It was also reported by the Agence France-Presse that it would develop discipline among France’s 12 million schoolchildren. He also mentioned that being open to new technologies doesn’t mean that they have accept all their uses. 

VOCABULARY:  Look for the meaning of the words below then practice using them in making your own sentences. 

 

1.  comprehensive 

2.  restriction 

3.  assurance 

4.  execute 

5.  learners 

6.  halting 

7. barnstorming 

8.  systematization 

9. staved off 

10. distressed 

DISCUSSION: Express more of your ideas about the topic. 

What do you imagine when you hear the word technology? 

What came into your mind when you read the headline: “Children Under 15 are Banned from Using Smartphones in France”? 

In your opinion, should children under 15 be banned from using smartphones? Why? 

Are smartphones banned in the schools in your country? 

What do you think about the restriction? As a parent/student, do you agree or disagree with it? Why? 

What are the advantages of prohibiting smartphones in school? 

What are the disadvantages of prohibiting smartphones in school? 

Is your smartphone important to you? Why? 

When should children start using smartphones? Why? 

How often do you use your smartphone? 

What would you do if they will ban the usage of smartphones in your work place? 

 

 

Source: 

https://www.businessinsider.com/france-bans-children-using-phones-at-school-2018-9?utm_content=buffer89a67&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-biuk&fbclid=IwAR0zjD_gp5RbwLcoIn5tlVRbRfEj3sOssuHna9isGyDelJ6SbzLwo_8MtuQ 

Shorter Working Hours Preferred By Younger Korean Workers

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The number of young employees clasp the shorter working week and has cracked the salary man's habit of leaving the office after their employers leave.  As the age of workers is younger, their working hours is shorter; however, the old work culture seems to continue among  workaholic seniors. According to a statistic based on mobile data released in early October, 1.16 million wage earners between 25 and 55 in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province showed that people in their 50s worked the longest at 10 hours and 42 minutes a day, 40s with 10 hours and 30 minutes, 30s with 10 hours and 24 minutes and those in their 20s with 10 hours and 18 minutes respectively. The sociability of older  workers after office hours were not included. Not long ago, the Korean cultural office was militaristic with a severe mayhem rule, demanding hours and obliged  after work meeting that workers skip out on. 

Under other conditions, ​it is now being modified.  According to a 24-year-old office worker, they were authorized to decide about the time they go to work and go home forasmuch as ​they follow the mandatory 40 hours a week working time which means they no longer have to spend time in the office while waiting for their superiors to go home. As of now, men still work longer for 10 hours and 42 minutes a day while women work 10 hours and 12 minutes probably for the reason that they have to look after their children.  In addition to that, younger employees have to travel farther. People in their 20s spent 51 minutes traveling back and forth while those who are in their 30s -49 minutes; 40s-47 minutes; and those in their 50s-42 minutes. The statistics also said that older workers can afford to live near their office since they are financially stable.

VOCABULARY:

1.  clasp

2.  cracked

3.  wage earners

4. militaristic

5.  mayhem

6.  skip out on

7. under other conditions

8. forasmuch as

9. farther

10.   afford

DISCUSSION:

What comes to your mind when you read the headline: "Shorter Working Hours Preferred By Younger Korean Workers" ?

What did you understand about what you read?

What do you think about the statistics?

The number of young employees clasp the shorter working week and has cracked the salary man's habit of leaving the office after their employers leave.  What do you think?

How many hours do you work? Is it a mandatory rule in your office?

Is your working time flexible?

What time do you go to work and go home?

Do you like your working time schedule?

What working schedule do you want to have? Why?

What do you think made the change possible?

Which is better the working schedule in the past or now? why?

What working schedule do you want to have in the future? why?

What will happen if companies in your country will continue to impose a 40 hours a week working schedule?

What kind of changes do you want your company to do regarding your work time table?

SOURCE:  

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/10/10/2019101000637.html