Coronavirus Misinformation
The link below will take you to a short video in YouTube. It is 6 minutes long, and you can activate the subtitles for better understanding.
Vocabulary:
- Going platinum: it is a music industry term used to describe a single or album that sells one million copies or more. If something has gone platinum, it's extremely successful, or a smash hit
- Suck up to somebody/something: Be very nice to someone so that they will treat you well.
- Browsing history: A list of web pages recently visited.
- Dumb /dʌm/: (Am) Stupid.
- Retailers: People that sell products directly to the public.
- Are you shitting me?: Are you kidding me?/ Are you joking?
- Misinformation: False or incorrect information, especially when it is intended to trick someone.
- Snorting cocaine (or anything else): breathing it in quickly through their nose.
- Kick off: Begin (originally, in reference to a football game).
- Gets rid of: Eliminates, makes something go away.
- Purell: Brand name of a hand sanitizer.
- Bleach: a chemical that is used to make cloth white, or to clean things thoroughly and kill germs: lejía
I laughed a lot. It was very close to reality, especially with regard to the toilet paper approach.
ReplyDeleteVery funny. Thank you Victoria!
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