Wednesday, September 30th Group 1

Prise de note du mercredi 30 Septembre 2009 par Valérie Florent

Current events

by Safia Blimi

France Telecom's deaths

  modern plague= fléau moderne

to commit suicide = se suicider

pressure,= La pression

stressed out = stressé

They are ill-treated

obviously = à l'évidence

élevé/bas = high/low

Président Directeur Général = Chief Executive Officer

Unions = syndicats

Unions want  France Telecom to hire more people

Unions want  the CEO to resign.                 

by Flora Banzouzi

Here is a CNN report on the 24th suicide at France Telecom

Then Justine volunteered to expose the oral Account of the following article:

Text: Palm Unveils a Smartphone for Younger Users 

Pixi is a new smartphone aimed at  the younger people distributed exclusively by spring for the holiday season,

It is less expensive than the other cell phone.  $200. (first position in the market)

The Holiday season is November (national holiday:Thanksgiving)

Thanksgiving is the third Thursday of November. It lasts (=dure) until the beginning of January. Americans  thank the native Americans (Indians) for their help when they settled in this country.

In fact people buy a lot of presents for thanks giving/ Chrismas .

We started an opinion poll on the following question:

Do you think you are a good target ?

Here what we had:

Vocabulary

self reliant= autonome

entertainement=divertissement

feeling of belonging to= sentiment d'appartenance à

Thank you Valérie for your notes