[토픽]분당 영어 스터디 27th Pattern English with Eddie (2016.6.15)

[Eddie]

Time table

19:30~19:50 Small talk

19:50~20:00 Break time and Table Change

20:00~20:40 Topic 1

20:40~20:50 Break time and Table Change

20:50~21:30 Topic 2

Small talk
Say hello and introduce each other

What is your favorite thing to do in the summer?

Where are you going to spend your summer vacation?

If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?

Where would you retire to?

Topic1

Young worker’s death spurs national discussion on irregular work
As people continue to mourn for a 19-year-old worker surnamed Kim who was killed while repairing a sliding door on the platform at Guui Subway Station in Seoul, there are increasing demands for specific measures to be taken to prevent low-wage workers from being shouldered with hazardous jobs.

On June 4, the Part-Time Workers’ Union held nationwide demonstrations, one of which took place in front of the branch of McDonalds outside Guui Station. During the demonstration, the union issued a statement rejecting dangerous jobs.

“This accident is the responsibility of Seoul Metro for outsourcing safety control to third parties and for not even realizing that a malfunction had taken place. It is also the responsibility of the government for only caring about cutting costs for public companies,” the union said.

During the demonstration, Park Jeong-hun, chair of the Part-Time Workers’ Union, cited a statistic stating that an average of five workers die on the job every day. “How much are the lives of part-time and irregular workers worth? 6,030 won (US$5.16) an hour. Cheap wages don’t mean that our lives are cheap, too. We have to stop the train of greed that is being fueled by our lives,” Park said.

Demonstrations were also held simultaneously in Daegu, Gwangju, Cheonan, Jeonju, Daejeon and Ulsan. Demonstrators asked for safe jobs and a minimum wage of 10,000 won (US$8.50), arguing that the “logical consequence of cutting costs is forcing part-time workers to do dangerous jobs.”

Expressions

while + verb + ing (다른 일과 동시에) ~하는 동안에 Driving is strictly prohibited while using this medicine. 이 약을 복용하는 중에는 운전해서는 안 됩니다.	take place (특히 미리 준비되거나 계획된 일이) 개최되다[일어나다] Do you happen to know where the meeting will take place? 당신은 혹시 그 회의가 어디서 열리는지 알고 있습니까?
safety control 안전 제어 The government felt the urgency to seek stronger food safety control measures after the United States reported its first case of BSE. 미국이 최초의 광우병 사례를 보고한 이후 우리 정부는 보다 강력한 식품안전 대책을 모색할시급성을 느꼈다.	cut cost 비용을 줄이다 It may also cut the cost of intake for government. 또한 정부가 부담하는 비용도 줄일 수 있습니다.

Questions

1. How often do you use subway?

2. Do you feel satisfied with subway service quality?

3. Do you think that the price of subway ticket is reasonable?

4. Who should have responsibility for this accident?

5. There were same kind of accident in Seoul for four years in a row. What is the reason why this keep happening?

6. How to prevent this kind of accident?

7. What is the reason why temporary employees(비정규직 노동자) are exposed to dangerous situation?

Topic2

Is your brain male or female?

When it comes to the tricky and explosive question of how much, if at all, male and female behaviour is driven by brain differences, Professor Alice Roberts and I sit on different sides of the fence.

I believe that our brains, like our bodies, are shaped by exposure to hormones in the womb and this may help explain why males tend to do better at some tasks (3D rotation), while women tend to do better at others (empathy skills), although there is, of course, an awful lot of overlap and social pressure involved.

Alice, on the other hand, thinks these differences are largely spurious, the result of how the tests are carried out. She worries that such claims may discourage girls from going into science.

"We live in a country where fewer than three out of ten physics A levels are taken by girls, where just 7% of engineers are women" she points out, before adding "and where men still earn on average nearly 20% more than their female colleagues."

So the BBC's Horizon programme asked us to go and explore the science, put forward research that would support our different views, but also look for common ground.

One of the scientists who has most strongly influenced my beliefs is Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University.

He argues that, broadly speaking, there are two different "brain types". There are empathisers, who are good at identifying how other people are thinking or feeling, and there are systemisers, people who are more interested in trying to take apart and analyse systems i.e. people who are a bit nerdy.

We are all a mix of the two, but most of us are more one than the other. Men tend to sit more along the systemising end of the spectrum, women at the empathising end, though there are plenty of exceptions.

But is this simply the product of social conditioning? Professor Baron-Cohen thinks not, that exposure to different levels of hormones in the womb can influence the brain and subsequent behavior. Some of his most intriguing findings have come from on-going research into a large group of children who have been followed from before they were born.

At around 16 weeks gestation, the children's mothers had an amniocentesis test, which involves collecting samples of the fluid that bathes the womb. The researchers measured levels of testosterone in the fluid and have since discovered intriguing links between those levels and behaviour.

Expressions

be driven (by) 이끌리다 I was driven by curiosity, I sneaked a peak at his diary. 나는 호기심에 이끌려 그의 일기를 훔쳐봤다	tend to (~하는) 경향이 있다 People tend to overuse credit cards. 사람들은 신용카드를 너무 많이 사용하는 경향이 있다.
spurious 거짓된, 겉으로만 그럴싸한 He had managed to create the entirely spurious impression that the company was thriving. 그는 회사가 번창하고 있다는, 전적으로 겉으로만 그럴싸한 인상을 만들어 내는 데 성공했었다.	carry out ~을 수행하다, 완수하다 Universities carry out a lot of research. 종합대학은 많은 연구과제를 수행한다.

Questions

1. If you are a male, are you good at space perception?(공간지각능력) If you are a female, are you good at empathy?

2. Do you think these differences are spurious?

3. Way back in your childhood, how did your parent react when you acted outside of gender stereotype?

4. Are you more like empathiser or systemiser?

5. Which one has more influence on your masculinity(남성성) or femininity(여성성) between hormones and environment?

6. Do you know other characteristics according to gender?

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