Date: 12/03/2025
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Student: Dawoon Kim
Topic: Celebrity Love: What Are Parasocial Relationships?
https://engoo.com/app/daily-news/article/celebrity-love-what-are-parasocial-relationships/rSt28MS4EfCEQ7N5MTG59w
Sentence Construction:
X I feel like I have a cold so I have to check my body condition. >> I feel like I have a cold, so I need to check my health.
X Tomorrow it will be snowy. That's according to media. >> It will snow tomorrow, according to the weather forecast.
X Marriage rate is also increasing now in Korea. >> The marriage rate is also increasing in Korea now.
X These update were uptick in price. >> These updates showed an uptick in price.
X The trend of marriage in Korea is picking expensive ceremony or expensive proposal. >> The trend in marriage in Korea is to have expensive ceremonies or proposals.
X I have to care of my family. >> I have to take care of my family.
Pronunciation:
* birthrate /burth-reyt/
* population /pop-yuh-ley-shuhn/
* uptick /uhp-tik/
* general /jen-er-uhl/
* trend /tren
* policies /pol-uh-seez/
* blogger /blawg-er, blahg-er/
Build Lexicon:
* Parasocial := (adj.) A one-sided relationship with someone you don’t personally know.
Example: Many teenagers have parasocial relationships with their favorite YouTubers.
* Intimacy := (n.) A close and personal connection or familiarity.
Example: Watching someone’s daily posts can create a sense of intimacy with them.
* Influence := (n.) The power to affect someone’s thoughts or actions.
Example: Social media influencers have a lot of influence over their followers’ choices.
* Loneliness := (n.) The feeling of being alone or isolated.
Example: People sometimes form parasocial relationships to cope with loneliness.
Discover Idioms & Expressions:
* One-sided := A relationship or situation that is not mutual.
Example: His admiration for the actor was completely one-sided.
* Fuel the fire := To make a situation stronger or more intense.
Example: Social media can fuel the fire of parasocial relationships.
* Object of affection := Someone or something that a person admires or likes.
Example: Fans bonded over their shared object of affection, the famous singer.
Practice:
* Read the lexicon, idioms and expressions. Then, construct sentences for each and be ready to recite them in class.
* Our next topic, Some Korean workers detained in Georgia immigration raid have returned to their jobs at Hyundai site
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/us/hyundai-georgia-raid-korean-workers-back-hnk
