英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0425 - 校园欺凌视频曝光（在线收听） |
Topic1 School BullyingRecently, a bullying video clip goes viral on the internet. Let's have a listen first. (clip)In the video, a middle schoolboy is beaten up by at least 4 students. The bullies also put instant noodle bowl and water bucket on the victim's head and pour coke at him. The boy never fights back. He just cries, but the bullies don't stop. Is this outrageous?
Topic2 Rent a mountain to study peach blossomChinese parents are famous for their passion and devotion to their children's education. Recently a Sichuan mother rented a mountain after she found out that her daughter did not know how to write a composition about peach blossoms because she never observed a real one.
The mountain has over 20 Mu which is more than 13,300 square meters. The annual rent for each Mu is about 10,000 yuan.
What happened?
Topic3 Pregnant Women Over-protected in ChinaIn China, when women get pregnant, they would be heavily protected right away.
Recently, there are two news stories about pregnancy and wifi. One is that a husband goes door to door, asking the neighbors to shut down their wifi because of his pregnant wife. The other is an elder man directly destroys the internet switchboard in his building and threatens the neighbors not to make any loud sound after 8 pm, since his daughter-in-law is pregnant.
Is this really necessary?
Topic4 Is Being a Full-Time Mother Lamentable?
In Chinese mega cities, more young mothers are going back home to become full time housewives because increasing cost of hiring household helpers. Economist Andy Xie predicts as more families are ready to have second child, more female workers will go back home. Some people believe it's lamentable for a woman to be a full time mother.
Is becoming a housewife that bad for women?
Topic5 Research-10 strange things on TaobaoChina's Taobao is one of the world's largest e-commerce websites, a combination of eBay and Amazon, only bigger. Its 500 million registered users trade almost 50,000 items of merchandise every minute on average.
With more than 800 million items listed, you can find almost anything offered for sale on the website.
The BBC lists the top 10 unusual items up for sale on the Taobao Marketplace at the moment.
What are these 10 items that the BBC deems "strange"? |
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