Hey guys,

today we first worked on the following video about the craze "Black Friday" can be in the US. You can watch the document again below:

Here is what we have begun to say about it:

I : The document is a news report from the BBC. It takes place in the US and more precisely in Los Angeles, California during the Christmas season in November (just after Thanksgiving). It deals with / it is about the problems because of Black Friday in the USA.

D : The document deals with 2 facts that happened in crowded stores.

1^st :in Los Angeles (California)

A woman used pepper spray to go faster to an Xbox console which was at a good price. 20 people got injured / hurt.

2^nd : There was another act of violence in Texas or North Carolina. A shot was fired but nobody got killed.

Vocabulary :

- to cut prices

- low prices

- a good bargain / deal

- the sales

- a promotion

- a shop (UK) / a store (US)

A - H - O + Branch Out will be finished when the sequence is over and you know more things about Shopping (Buy Nothing Day), Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and over-consumption in general.

Then we continued the class during the 2nd hour with Holly. You first had to talk about the "famine video" we had worked on last Friday. You did a pretty good job and your trying to explain the differences between poor and rich countries was often interesting.

Finally, we had you study a fragment of a picture (one for each group) and you had to:

- imagine what was around the picture -> who, where, when, what ...

- give it a title

The body / boy in the field:

-> w/ his family - they are too exhausted to walk

Lost African men: (in the middle)

3 people

on a boat

The wild man:

Many other slaves / in the 19^th century

no clothes

Title unknown for the moment:

no natural ressources

slaves — look scared

__ exhausted

- have a break next to a tree

As we haven't finished discussing about it, we'll continue next time (on Tuesday).

HW:

- apprendre votre leçon sur le document "Black Friday" et connaître le nouveau vocabulaire.