"Facebook Manners and You" + correction of your mock exams

Hey,

today we first warmed up with a document entitled "Facebook Manners and You". You can watch it again below:

Here is what we said about it:

The document is a spoof / parody. It deals with social networks and more precisely Facebook.

The story is set in the 1950's or 60's when Facebook didn't exist. There is a discrepancy / difference / contrast between the fact that Facebook existed and the real story.

The story features Alice who comes back home from work and connects to Facebook to read the newsfeed of her friends and in particular the news of Timmy, her fiancé.

She realizes that Timmy has broken up with her. His relationship status is now "single". He has a new lover : Donna Whitehouse.
Alice starts a hate group in which she says that Timmy "doesn't buy things made in the USA" and "is a communist". Her revelation leads Timmy into being arrested.

Indeed, at that period, Mc Carthy was in power in the USA and there was a witch-hunt against communists.

The document intends to denounce the way some people use Facebook. They don't take the "common sense rules" of Facebook seriously.

Additional vocabulary:

The Internet:
- (to) connect to / log on to (my) Facebook account
- a type-writer
- a screen

Face expression:
- a haircut
- a well-cut beard
- to be well-combed

Structure:
- (to) lead (someone) into + V-ing

Source of humor:
- There is a discrepancy between time and topic.

Then we continued the correction of your mock exams focusing our attention on the attitudes of the characters and understanding why and how they evolved throughout the text. Here are some important phases and phrases to remember:

"to be written by ..."

HW: learn your lesson.