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Câu hỏi:
Part 2:
Describe a game show or a quiz program you watched on TV or online
You should say:
● Where you watched it
● What it was like
● How often you watched it
● And explain why you liked/ disliked it
Part 3: QUIZ
Question 1: Why do people like to watch TV shows?
Question 2: What kinds of TV shows do people like to watch?
Question 3: What is the difference between the games people play now and those people played in the past?
Question 4: Why do some people watch TV shows online?
VOCABULARY
✅ Debut (noun): The first public appearance of something - lần đầu tiên xuất hiện trước công chúng
✅ Contestant (noun): a person who takes part in a contest - Thí sinh tham gia cuộc thi
✅ Silly (adj): showing a lack of thought, understanding or judgement - Ngốc nghếch
✅ To give somebody a good laugh (verb phrase): to make someone laugh in excitement - làm ai đó cười khoái chí
✅ Lifeline (noun): a line or rope thrown to rescue somebody who is in difficulty in the water - Phao cứu hộ
✅ A sea of knowledge (noun phrase): a lot of knowledge - biển kiến thức
✅ Trivial (adj): having little value or importance - Nhỏ, vụn vặt
✅ Quantum physics (noun): The branch of science that investigates the principles of quantum theory to better understand the behaviour of particles at the subatomic level - Vật lý lượng tử
✅ Archeology (noun): the study of cultures of the past, and of periods of history by examining the remains of buildings and objects found in the ground - Khảo cổ học
✅ Master of ceremony (noun phrase): a person who acts as host at a formal event - Người dẫn chương trình
✅ A great sense of humor (noun phrase): the ability to find things amusing - Tính hài hước
✅ watch the box: (watch TV) xem tivi
✅ lead a hectic life (v.phrase): sống cuộc sống bận rộn
✅ stressed out (adj): căng thẳng
✅ put the feet up (idiom): giải trí/ giải toả căng thẳng
✅ acquire knowledge about ST (v.phrase): có thêm kiến thức về …
✅ genres (noun) = kind: thể loại
✅ witty scenes (noun): cảnh hài hước
✅ to split one’s sides (laughing/ with laughter): cười bể bụng
✅ keep somebody in suspense (v.phrase): khiến ai đó hồi hộp
✅ Stand for (verb): viết tắt cho từ ….
✅ Sportspersons (noun): người chơi thể thao
✅ Get more media exposure (v.phrase): tiếp cận nhiều với thông tin đại chúng
✅ Take an interest in … (v.phrase): hứng thú với …
✅ on the go with ST (idiom): bận rộn với việc gì
✅ at one’s convenience (prep): bất cứ khi nào ai đó muốn
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Polis Diraja Malaysia ( Royal Malaysia Police ) POWER!!!
Okay guys.. I wanna share my story. This happened on 14th April 2016, at Pavilion food court (Melayu&Padang). My life literally snatched in a moment as a crook (identity hide to avoid racist comment) stole my handbag in split sec! Through the cctv 2.50pm, shows that I was targeted by this 'uncle' left me and my baby with no money, credit card, debit card, important docs, H/Ps, house key! Luckily im staying in pavilion residence and my husband still at home Zzzzz.. 😂
I couldn't call anyone for help because everything was gone! Me and my sleeping baby... standing there feeling hopeless. Fast forward, I went and talk to one of the cleaner to direct me where's the security office. Thank god it's just nearby!
On my way to the security office, I prayed hard the cctv covering the place where I lost my belongings, working. Yup, it works.. and sharp! The staff at the security office were very professional attending my needs. Still.. they can't disclose the cctv to me as I need to have a police report before I could see the video. Escorted by a security personnel to the Auxiliary Police in Pav.. we bumped into someone wearing a civil shirt, the security staff was talking something to him, and he.. without asking my permission straight away snap my pic. I was furious like.. Heyyyyy!! Then he showed me his badge.. ohh, abang police 😎. (Police1)
Upon reaching the police office, so many things going on in my mind. You know, social media often shares a clip where police always not being cooperative with Rakyat, often shows that the police is rude, sleep (while office hour), cut short, police are Monsters 😂😂😂.. Well I tell you, what I've gone through the whole process totally changed my perception what they always say 'Police Raja Di Malaysia' is wrong!!
Entering their office, there Ms Ainani.. looking at this woman pushing a baby stroller feeling hopeless and pale asked me to take a sit, calming me down and asked what happened? I can't say anything as my heart start pumping all over again.. Things I can remember was asking 'can I borrow a phone?' Yeah.. she gave me her personal phone to call my husband. Couldn't control my voice til it wake my baby up!
My husband, without thinking and wasting his time, get dressed and get out the house (without his wallet, without locking the house 😂) drove his car and started tracking 2 of my iPhone. The signal shows the crook just left Pavilion 10minutes ago. The apps called 'Find My IPhone'. As a housewife, I'm amazed the tracking was way so accurate with satellite captured the exact spot!
With my baby eyes wide open, wishing me to play with her, adoiii how to complete my police report? I need to see the cctv!! God sent one more police named Ms Amyza.. 😂😂😂 she took care and play with my baby. Before I could complete my report, Abang Police.. (Seriously didn't get his name so I address him as Police1) came to office and show me the footage through his cellphone. By right, I should have hand a police report to security office in order for me to get a copy of cctv. He however acted super fast and show me the video.
I received a call from my husband (through Ms Ainani cellphone) telling me the signal he get was only 100-200 meter radius from his car. He knew the crook is around nearby, but he couldn't get a figure right. Police1 jumped to my husband rescue sending him the cctv clip. That crook was seated nicely waiting for a bus near RHB jln Tun Razak. My husband nabbed him with my handbag next to him inside a plastic. That crook was extremely shocked and claimed the handbag was not his, he don't know who put the bag there 😂😂😂. My husband grabbed the handbag and pushed the crook's face facing the glass wall! Less than 10minutes, Police1 and his partner Officer Daniel.. Waaaa so fast, I thought I saw Police1 and Officer Daniel standing next to me like 5minutes ago??
While we still drafting a report, I saw my husband's car arrived with Officer Daniel and the crook in it! I ran to my husband's arm and cried. Then came Police1 and officer Daniel, behind them.. that crook!! They took him in the room so fast I didn't have a chance to kick him with my stiletto!
And the bad news.. my husband told me he got everything back but, my purse was emptied! That crook took my money and threw cards/doc somewhere but he didn't know how to address the place!! Haiyerrrr 😡😡!! I thought that's the end.. Nope.
We were transferred to Police Station Dang Wangi branch. Police MPV arrived with blue siren light. Heading to my husband's car, he received a call from someone who's working at a construction site (Mohd Firdaus), telling my husband he found several doc and cards next to a fence where he works.
Arrived at Dang Wangi branch, again.. 'Monsters' are playing in my head 😂😂😂.. first Lady Officer who attended me, omg.. she's such a dolly! Also taking care of my grumpy baby while I'm struggling to draft a report. Upon completing my report, Mohd Firdaus called my husband how and where to meet up. Few minutes later, came a young, tall and bright looking aura walks into Dang Wangi branch and shook his hand to my husband. He handed over all cards/doc he found near the construction site. My husband offer Mohd Firdaus an 'Ang Pau' which he firmly rejected.. God Bless this Man
We were asked to go level 10 to meet Sarjan Aiman. A fierce looking guy, eyebrows so thick and attached 😂😂. But heyyy.. this guy is rich with sense of humor! All went well. I got my handbag, purse, money, iPhones, doc/cards back. The whole process went so well and ended at 8pm. Long day, but it just didn't feel 'a long day'..
Moral of the story, take a good care of our belongings. Police are not a Monster, for they are really a Polis Di Raja Malaysia! The very person that I really wanna thank for, Police1 and officer Daniel. Police1 supposed to go home early as he's not feeling well, instead.. being there with me until we finished. Salute 😘..
I need your help, everyone's help.. please share my story until it reaches to all these police's Facebook Wall!! Thank you PDRM and thank you Malaysians
p/s: my Husband is my Hero
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A GOOD READ from one of the greatest leader that lived, #SINGAPORE's founding man, #LeeKuanYew
THIS MUST BE SHARED AND THOROUGHLY READ BY EVERY FILIPINO... Its quite long but it will surely strengthen our minds but then at the end, I was like "SAYANG!!!"
It came from the SINGAPORE'S FOUNDING MAN ITSELF, former Prime Minister LEE KUAN YEW on how the Philippines should have become, IF ONLY...
I've just read it and, its point blank!
Its a good read
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(The following excerpt is taken from pages 299 – 305 from Lee Kuan Yew’s book “From Third World to First”, Chapter 18 “Building Ties with Thailand, the Philippines, and Brunei”)
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The Philippines was a world apart from us, running a different style of politics and government under an American military umbrella. It was not until January 1974 that I visited President Marcos in Manila. When my Singapore Airlines plane flew into Philippine airspace, a small squadron of Philippine Air Force jet fighters escorted it to Manila Airport. There Marcos received me in great style – the Filipino way. I was put up at the guest wing of Malacañang Palace in lavishly furnished rooms, valuable objects of art bought in Europe strewn all over. Our hosts were gracious, extravagant in hospitality, flamboyant. Over a thousand miles of water separated us. There was no friction and little trade. We played golf, talked about the future of ASEAN, and promised to keep in touch.
His foreign minister, Carlos P. Romulo, was a small man of about five feet some 20 years my senior, with a ready wit and a self-deprecating manner about his size and other limitations. Romulo had a good sense of humor, an eloquent tongue, and a sharp pen, and was an excellent dinner companion because he was a wonderful raconteur, with a vast repertoire of anecdotes and witticisms. He did not hide his great admiration for the Americans. One of his favourite stories was about his return to the Philippines with General MacArthur. As MacArthur waded ashore at Leyte, the water reached his knees but came up to Romulo’s chest and he had to swim ashore. His good standing with ASEAN leaders and with Americans increased the prestige of the Marcos administration. Marcos had in Romulo a man of honor and integrity who helped give a gloss of respectability to his regime as it fell into disrepute in the 1980s.
In Bali in 1976, at the first ASEAN summit held after the fall of Saigon, I found Marcos keen to push for greater economic cooperation in ASEAN. But we could not go faster than the others. To set the pace, Marcos and I agreed to implement a bilateral Philippines-Singapore across-the-board 10 percent reduction of existing tariffs on all products and to promote intra-ASEAN trade. We also agreed to lay a Philippines-Singapore submarine cable. I was to discover that for him, the communiqué was the accomplishment itself; its implementation was secondary, an extra to be discussed at another conference.
We met every two to three years. He once took me on a tour of his library at Malacañang, its shelves filled with bound volumes of newspapers reporting his activities over the years since he first stood for elections. There were encyclopedia-size volumes on the history and culture of the Philippines with his name as the author. His campaign medals as an anti-Japanese guerrilla leader were displayed in glass cupboards. He was the undisputed boss of all Filipinos. Imelda, his wife, had a penchant for luxury and opulence. When they visited Singapore before the Bali summit they came in stye in two DC8’s, his and hers.
Marcos did not consider China a threat for the immediate future, unlike Japan. He did not rule out the possibility of an aggressive Japan, if circumstances changed. He had memories of the horrors the Imperial Army had inflicted on Manila. We had strongly divergent views on the Vietnamese invasion and occupation of Cambodia. While he, pro forma, condemned the Vietnamese occupation, he did not consider it a danger to the Philippines. There was the South China Sea separating them and the American navy guaranteed their security. As a result, Marcos was not active on the Cambodian question. Moreover, he was to become preoccupied with the deteriorating security in his country.
Marcos, ruling under martial law, had detained opposition leader Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, reputed to be as charismatic and powerful a campaigner as he was. He freed Aquino and allowed him to go to the United States. As the economic situation in the Philippines deteriorated, Aquino announced his decision to return. Mrs. Marcos issued several veiled warnings. When the plane arrived at Manila Airport from Taipei in August 1983, he was shot as he descended from the aircraft. A whole posse of foreign correspondents with television camera crews accompanying him on the aircraft was not enough protection.
International outrage over the killing resulted in foreign banks stopping all loans to the Philippines, which owed over US$25 billion and could not pay the interest due. This brought Marcos to the crunch. He sent his minister for trade and industry, Bobby Ongpin, to ask me for a loan of US$300-500 million to meet the interest payments. I looked him straight in the eye and said, “We will never see that money back.” Moreover, I added, everyone knew that Marcos was seriously ill and under constant medication for a wasting disease. What was needed was a strong, healthy leader, not more loans.
Shortly afterward, in February 1984, Marcos met me in Brunei at the sultanate’s independence celebrations. He had undergone a dramatic physical change. Although less puffy than he had appeared on television, his complexion was dark as if he had been out in the sun. He was breathing hard as he spoke, his voice was soft, eyes bleary, and hair thinning. He looked most unhealthy. An ambulance with all the necessary equipment and a team of Filipino doctors were on standby outside his guest bungalow. Marcos spent much of the time giving me a most improbable story of how Aquino had been shot.
As soon as all our aides left, I went straight to the point, that no bank was going to lend him any money. They wanted to know who was going to succeed him if anything were to happen to him; all the bankers could see that he no longer looked healthy. Singapore banks had lent US$8 billion of the US$25 billion owing. The hard fact was they were not likely to get repayment for some 20 years. He countered that it would be only eight years. I said the bankers wanted to see a strong leader in the Philippines who could restore stability, and the Americans hoped the election in May would throw up someone who could be such a leader. I asked whom he would nominate for the election. He said Prime Minister Cesar Virata. I was blunt. Virata was a nonstarter, a first-class administrator but no political leader; further, his most politically astute colleague, defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile, was out of favour. Marcos was silent, then he admitted that succession was the nub of the problem. If he could find a successor, there would be a solution. As I left, he said, “You are a true friend.” I did not understand him. It was a strange meeting.
With medical care, Marcos dragged on. Cesar Virata met me in Singapore in January the following year. He was completely guileless, a political innocent. He said that Mrs. Imelda Marcos was likely to be nominated as the presidential candidate. I asked how that could be when there were other weighty candidates, including Juan Ponce Enrile and Blas Ople, the labor minister. Virata replied it had to do with “flow of money; she would have more money than other candidates to pay for the votes needed for nomination by the party and to win the election. He added that if she were the candidate, the opposition would put up Mrs. Cory Aquino and work up the people’s feelings. He said the economy was going down with no political stability.
The denouement came in February 1986 when Marcos held presidential elections which he claimed he won. Cory Aquino, the opposition candidate, disputed this and launched a civil disobedience campaign. Defense Minister Juan Enrile defected and admitted election fraud had taken place, and the head of the Philippine constabulary, Lieutenant General Fidel Ramos, joined him. A massive show of “people power” in the streets of Manila led to a spectacular overthrow of a dictatorship. The final indignity was on 25 February 1986, when Marcos and his wife fled in U.S. Air Force helicopters from Malacañang Palace to Clark Air Base and were flown to Hawaii. This Hollywood-style melodrama could only have happened in the Philippines.
Mrs. Aquino was sworn in as president amid jubilation. I had hopes that this honest, God-fearing woman would help regain confidence for the Philippines and get the country back on track. I visited her that June, three months after the event. She was a sincere, devout Catholic who wanted to do her best for her country by carrying out what she believed her husband would have done had he been alive, namely, restore democracy to the Philippines. Democracy would then solve their economic and social problems. At dinner, Mrs. Aquino seated the chairman of the constitutional commission, Chief Justice Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, next to me. I asked the learned lady what lessons her commission had learned from the experience of the last 40 years since independence in 1946 would guide her in drafting the constitution. She answered without hesitation, “We will not have any reservations or limitations on our democracy. We must make sure that no dictator can ever emerge to subvert the constitution.” Was there no incompatibility of the American-type separation of powers with the culture and habits of the Filipino people that had caused problems for the presidents before Marcos? Apparently none.
Endless attempted coups added to Mrs. Aquino’s problems. The army and the constabulary had been politicized. Before the ASEAN summit in December 1987, a coup was threatened. Without President Suharto’s firm support the summit would have been postponed and confidence in Aquino’s government undermined. The Philippine government agreed that the responsibility for security should be shared between them and the other ASEAN governments, in particular the Indonesian government. General Benny Moerdani, President Suharto’s trusted aide, took charge. He positioned an Indonesian warship in the middle of Manila Bay with helicopters and a commando team ready to rescue the ASEAN heads of government if there should be a coup attempt during the summit. I was included in their rescue plans. I wondered if such a rescue could work but decided to go along with the arrangements, hoping that the show of force would scare off the coup leaders. We were all confined to the Philippine Plaza Hotel by the seafront facing Manila Bay where we could see the Indonesian warship at anchor. The hotel was completely sealed off and guarded. The summit went off without any mishap. We all hoped that this show of united support for Mrs. Aquino’s government at a time when there were many attempts to destabilize it would calm the situation.
It made no difference. There were more coup attempts, discouraging investments badly needed to create jobs. This was a pity because they had so many able people, educated in the Philippines and the United States. Their workers were English-speaking, at least in Manila. There was no reason why the Philippines should not have been one of the more successful of the ASEAN countries. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the most developed, because America had been generous in rehabilitating the country after the war. Something was missing, a gel to hold society together. The people at the top, the elite mestizos, had the same detached attitude to the native peasants as the mestizos in their haciendas in Latin America had toward their peons. They were two different societies: Those at the top lived a life of extreme luxury and comfort while the peasants scraped a living, and in the Philippines it was a hard living. They had no land but worked on sugar and coconut plantations.They had many children because the church discouraged birth control. The result was increasing poverty.
It was obvious that the Philippines would never take off unless there was substantial aid from the United States. George Shultz, the secretary of state, was sympathetic and wanted to help but made clear to me that the United States would be better able to do something if ASEAN showed support by making its contribution. The United States was reluctant to go it alone and adopt the Philippines as its special problem. Shultz wanted ASEAN to play a more prominent role to make it easier for the president to get the necessary votes in Congress. I persuaded Shultz to get the aid project off the ground in 1988, before President Reagan’s second term of office ended. He did. There were two meetings for a Multilateral Assistance Initiative (Philippines Assistance Programme): The first in Tokyo in 1989 brought US$3.5 billion in pledges, and the second in Hong Kong in 1991, under the Bush administration, yielded US$14 billion in pledges. But instability in the Philippines did not abate. This made donors hesitant and delayed the implementation of projects.
Mrs. Aquino’s successor, Fidel Ramos, whom she had backed, was more practical and established greater stability. In November 1992, I visited him. In a speech to the 18th Philippine Business Conference, I said, “I do not believe democracy necessarily leads to development. I believe what a country needs to develop is discipline more than democracy.” In private, President Ramos said he agreed with me that British parliamentary-type constitutions worked better because the majority party in the legislature was also the government. Publicly, Ramos had to differ.
He knew well the difficulties of trying to govern with strict American-style separation of powers. The senate had already defeated Mrs. Aquino’s proposal to retain the American bases. The Philippines had a rambunctious press but it did not check corruption. Individual press reporters could be bought, as could many judges. Something had gone seriously wrong. Millions of Filipino men and women had to leave their country for jobs abroad beneath their level of education. Filipino professionals whom we recruited to work in Singapore are as good as our own. Indeed, their architects, artists, and musicians are more artistic and creative than ours. Hundreds of thousands of them have left for Hawaii and for the American mainland. It is a problem the solution to which has not been made easier by the workings of a Philippine version of the American constitution.
The difference lies in the culture of the Filipino people. It is a soft, forgiving culture. Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged his country for over 20 years, still be considered for a national burial. Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and children were allowed to return and engage in politics. They supported the winning presidential and congressional candidates with their considerable resources and reappeared in the political and social limelight after the 1998 election that returned President Joseph Estrada. General Fabian Ver, Marcos’s commander-in-chief who had been in charge of security when Aquino was assassinated, had fled the Philippines together with Marcos in 1986. When he died in Bangkok, the Estrada government gave the general military honors at his burial. One Filipino newspaper, Today, wrote on 22 November 1998, “Ver, Marcos and the rest of the official family plunged the country into two decades of lies, torture, and plunder. Over the next decade, Marcos’s cronies and immediate family would tiptoe back into the country, one by one – always to the public’s revulsion and disgust, though they showed that there was nothing that hidden money and thick hides could not withstand.” Some Filipinos write and speak with passion. If they could get their elite to share their sentiments and act, what could they not have achieved?
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