2020-2021学年度第16期总第815期
Online tip ban for minors (P2)
吉林毓文中学 赵传彦
Lead-in 
What can you do to interact with the hosts when watching livestreams?
message them
buy them gifts
send them tips

However, the National Radio and Television Administration introduced a new regulation to ban minors from tipping or sending gifts. 
Do you know why?

Read for main idea
Read the passage quickly to get the main idea. 
A new regulation was introduced to ban minors from tipping and better manage livestreaming services.
Read the passage quickly and match the general idea of the paragraphs.
 

Read for details 
Read the article and answer the following questions. 
1. What is the problem with children watching livestreams? 
 
2. What is being done to prevent this in the future?
 
3. What is the effect of the new regulation? Has it eliminated all concerns?
 
4. What other measures do we need to solve the issue?
 

Further Thinking 
As the article mentioned, in additon to authorities and livestreaming platforms, parents also need to make efforts in order to better protect minors. What do you think they should do?
 
If minors spend money online without the knowledge of their parents or guardians, what can parents or guardians do?
 

Language study
1.打赏                   sent tips
2.在线主播               host online
3.直播                   livestreaming
4.平台                   platform
5.对...上瘾               be addicted to
6.对...有害               do something harmful to
7.面部识别               face recognition
8.加入黑名单             add to a blacklist
9. 落实到位              put in place
10. 保护...免受           protect...from
11. 有权做…             have the right to do
12. 预防...免受           prevent...from
    
To prevent things like this from happening again, the National Radio and Television Administration introduced a new regulation on Nov 23 to better manage livestreaming services.
The regulation bans minors from tipping or sending gifts to livestream hosts and performers.
Other regulations include stopping livestreaming platforms from encouraging viewers to send gifts or tips. 
阻止某人/某物做...

prevent\ban\stop from doing sth  
“阻止某人/事物做…”
 同义短语：keep ... from doing sth
区别：
•    keep后的from不可省略，省略后则为“keep sb.    
    doing sth.”，则意为“使某人一直干…”；
•    而stop与prevent后的from则可以省去，意义无大变化。