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1. Part 1 (30 minutes) : Small talking
You can talk anything about your current life - work, difficult, hobby, anything.



2. Part 2 (30, 30, 30 minutes) : Free discussion. Please read the article.

Topic 1 - Be careful what you post on Facebook.
USA Today recently compiled a list of things to avoid when spending time on Facebook. Such precautions are applicable to Korea as well and should be considered for the sake of security.
First of all, make sure an address is not visible on the page. If people go on vacation and post photos while away from home, this could tip criminals to the fact that their house is empty.
The paper suggested that Facebook users make sure they have not listed their address or contact information in their profile. Users should take care not to include their address when creating an event, or delete it soon after it has been held.
Secondly, they should avoid posting any material that shows where they work. Doing so increases the chances for fellow employees learning something about them that they may not want to share. The paper added that hackers use social media to gather information about employees as a first step in breaking into a company.
As tempting as it may be to let the world know about new significant others, the paper said posting relationship statuses to Facebook acquaintances can invite awkwardness.
"The number of ‘likes' that you might get from people after you change your status from ‘dating,' or even ‘married,' to ‘single' or ‘it's complicated' will creep you out," USA Today explained, adding that there was a Facebook app that notified users when certain friends changed their relationship status to "single."
People should also take care when providing Facebook with credit card information. While this can be used to buy gift cards and other products from the website, it opens a person up to accidental charges. If Facebook ever has a security breach, your credit card number could be exposed.
Q1. How often and why do you use SNS?
Q2. Do you post things listed in the article on SNS? Have you ever thought it's dangerous?
Q3. What do you think about people who love to use SNS?

Topic 2 - 10 Bad Habits and the Best Ways to Quit Them
It's not too late to reverse your worst habits (stopping smoking, drinking, over-eating, and more) and immediately start living a happier, healthier life.
1. Bad Habit: Snacking non-stop, even when not hungry.
Why It's Dangerous: Losing touch with your body's natural hunger and satisfaction signals can lead to chronic overeating and unhealthy extra pounds that can lead to diabetes, heart disease, and other serious conditions. If it's junk foods you snack on, you're also flooding your body with unhealthy ingredients.
2. Bad Habit: Spending too much time on the couch watching TV.
Why It's Dangerous: The more TV you watch, the less physical activity you're getting, increasing your odds of being overweight and developing type 2 diabetes. A large-scale study of over 9000 people found that those who watched more than two hours of TV a day ate more, while downing more sugary soft drinks and high-fat, high-calorie, processed snack foods than those who watched less. If television is replacing time you'd spend on an old hobby, visiting friends, or exercising your mind, it can also speed up memory loss.
3. Bad Habit: Overspending your way into debt.
Why It's Dangerous: Money worries can have serious health consequences. In a Rutgers University telephone survey, responders said financial stress contributed to high blood pressure, depression, insomnia, headaches, digestion troubles, aches and pains, ulcers, excessive smoking and drinking, and gaining or losing weight.
4. Bad Habit: Eating too much fast food.
Why It's Dangerous: A steady diet of double cheeseburgers and fries washed down with an oversize soda or milkshake often leads to a bigger waistline and other related health problems, like heart disease and diabetes. Trans fat, often found in fast food, raises 'bad' cholesterol and blood fats that contribute to hardening of the arteries, as well as firing up inflammation, which contributes to the build-up of fatty plaque in artery walls.
5. Bad Habit: Getting sunburned a few times every summer.
Why It's Dangerous: If you love sunbathing or make an effort to maintain a golden-bronze tan, you've unwittingly contributed to the aging of your skin. Sunbathing destroys the elastic fibers that keep skin looking firm and smooth, leading to earlier wrinkles, blotches, freckles, and discolorations. More importantly, sunburns contribute significantly to cancers of the skin. If you've added trips to the tanning salon, it's even worse. Despite what ads suggest, using tanning beds doesn't build up a 'safe' base tan. It actually raises your risk for skin cancer and wrinkles.
6. Bad Habit: Behavior that leaves you angry, worried, or stressed all of the time.
Why it's Dangerous: An unhappy lifestyle releases a cascade of stress hormones that increase your blood pressure and blood sugar, lower immunity, slow digestion, and make you feel downright mean. Nature intended stress to be a short-lived fight-or-flight response to a threat, but modern life can lead to chronic stress and to far-reaching impacts on your health, such as increased risk of being overweight and overeating high-fat, sugary foods. Both raise your odds for heart disease and diabetes.
7. Bad Habit: Skipping breakfast.
Why It's Dangerous: Skipping the first meal of the day can have serious consequences for your weight, your energy levels, and even your blood sugar. Munching a piece of morning toast or crunching a bowl of bran flakes signals to your metabolism that it's time to kick things up a notch. Skipping the fuel keeps your metabolism running on low, which can lead to weight gain and sluggishness. You'll also create a starve-now-indulge-later eating pattern, which is why breakfast-skippers tend to overeat later in the day.
8. Bad Habit: Drinking too much alcohol.
Why It's Dangerous: If you over-drink on a regular basis, alcohol can be a poison. Women who regularly consume two or more drinks a day and men who regularly down three or more are at higher risk for liver damage, various cancers including those of the liver and mouth, high blood pressure, and depression. Women, who are more sensitive to alcohol, can also develop heart disease, brittle bones, and even memory loss.
9. Bad Habit: Smoking cigarettes.
Why It's Dangerous: As far as health goes, no popular habit on Earth is as harmful. It directly causes 30 percent of heart disease deaths, 30 percent of cancer deaths, and a massive 80 to 90 percent of all lung cancers, not to mention increasing the risk of developing mouth, throat, and, bladder cancer. This bad habit also astronomically raises your odds for heart attacks, strokes, and high blood pressure, on top of possibly triggering or aggravating breathing problems like bronchitis and asthma attacks.
10. Bad Habit: Overusing pain killers and sedatives.
Why It's Dangerous: When they're not taken properly, long-term habitual use can cause more problems than it solves. Using drugs like ibuprofen or aspirin for arthritis or muscle pain can over time increase your risk for ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeding, high blood pressure, and heart attacks. Calming drugs and sleeping pills can leave you feeling confused and prone to stumbling and falling if you take them in higher-than-prescribed doses. Since they make you feel good, you may want to keep on taking them, turning them into a habit or addiction before you you know it.
Q1. Do you have any bad habits?
Q2. Do you know anyone who bites his or her nails?
Q3. Do you know anyone who has a very annoying habit? What is it?
Q4. What are some good habits to have?
Q5. Do you have healthy eating habits? Explain.
Q6. Do you have good study habits? Give examples.

Topic 3 - Five accused of making fake designer goods worth 42 billion won
Five suspected members of a South Korean smuggling ring have been arrested on suspicion of producing and selling counterfeit designer goods worth 42 billion won ($36.7 million), the country's customs office said Wednesday.
One person was held in custody and four booked without detention on charges of violating the trademark law, said the Seoul office of Korea Customs Service. The names of all five were withheld.
The five allegedly set up two to three factories and storehouses in residential areas of Seoul to avoid a police crackdown, said the authorities. Their alleged operation included the production, storage and sale of counterfeit items to local customers, in addition to smuggling similar goods to Japan via air mail.
Most of the fakes are imitations of popular Louis Vuitton bags, which they sold for around 200,000 won each.
"They committed such violations as fake designer brands are popular among foreign tourists visiting South Korea," said the office. "We will intensify our crackdown on illegal products."
Q1. Do you have a luxury bag ? have you ever purchased any kind of counterfeit stuff?
Q2. What do you think of buying counterfeit stuff instead original one?
Q3. Do you think luxury bag price is reasonable?
Q4. Why do you think people like expensive and luxury brand?

[Chris Kim]

토픽이 빨리 올라오니 미리 공부하고 좋네요~이번주엔 Eunice(유니스)님께서 프린트를 스터디 멤버들을 위해 해오신다고 합니다. 수고해 주신다니 보시면 감사의 눈인사라도 ㅎㅎ

[chan]

네~ 열심히 애써주시는 분들께 감사의 인사전해야겠네요! 토픽도 좋고요 ㅎ