Learn English with the News – “Hello Kitty flies!”

Hello everyone!

How many of you like Hello Kitty? It doesn’t matter if you don’t, because this news item will still make you smile.

1. Read the text
2. Understand the vocabulary
3. Watch the video

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It promises to be the cutest flight experience on the planet. Starting with its pink check-in counter, Taiwanese EVA airlines launched a flight service fully themed on Hello Kitty.

After handing over the Hello Kitty boarding pass, passengers enter the aircraft. Rows of seats adorned with the cat character await them inside. Even the food matches the feline theme. But as EVA senior instructor, Chang Ai-lin explains, selling “cute” is good for the business.

– For our flight route from Japan, many Japanese passengers who travel to Taiwan choose to take the Hello Kitty flight.

Indeed a powerhouse brand, Hello Kitty is part of a multi-billion dollar franchise of Japan’s Sanrio Company. And fans it has – ready to board the next Hello Kitty flight.

– Hello Kitty is all over the place and it’s very attractive. Also, I have children and it would be fun to bring them here.

Right now the airline has three Hello Kitty jets in service flying between Asian countries. It seems that for one cat the sky is not the limit.

Vocabulary

Item – an individual thing : a separate part or thin.

Cutest – clever in an appealing way.

Counter – a piece of furniture with a flat surface that workers and customers stand on opposite sides of when doing business in a store, restaurant, etc.

Themed – the particular subject or idea on which the style of something (such as a party or room) is based – in this case an airplane.

Feline – of or relating to the cat family.

Powerhouse – a group of people or an organization that has a lot of power.

Franchise – the right to sell a company’s goods or services in a particular area.

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