voc Monday 12th

 

2.6/ File One: “ around the word… “

Press review

 

A)    Let’s check you remember the vocabulary (“news of the week”):

 

What’s up? (US)

The queen is ______dead_____________/ she _______died____________ last Thursday.

She had met the new _____Prime Minister_________ two days before her _____death_________

British people are mourning =  _____grieving__________________

Queen Elizabeth will be _________buried_________________ next Monday.

William has become the new Prince of ____Wales____________.

 

On September 11^th (    /      in the US) the American people  paid tribute to the victims of the attacks…

 

B)    Complete (  to explain the cartoons )

We can see/ there are ___teens  who are texting  /

In the background  (≠ in the foreground ) ...

 

The aim/ purpose  ( = goal) of the cartoonist is to  ___show/ denounce the  waste of time...__

What the cartoonist wants to denounce is __young people's addiction___________________

 

 

To my mind / In my opinion/ I would tend to think … young people are addicted to/ dependent on / hooked on ... new technologies.

 

 

 

The third cartoonist depicts  __characters who ARE readING

 

This document  focuses on  the useless information young people share...

 

I share the feeling that / I cannot help thinking that _it is not just a caricature...__________

 

 

 

As far as I am concerned I find the last document is very relevant: it shows ______a paper that is gagged ________________________________________

 

It is a symbol of __censorship .

 

It makes me think of / It reminds me of   what we said about North Korea...____________________