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English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.

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Google - The "Hungry Beast" + Guns (text follow-up)

Hey guys, 

 

today we first worked on a video document about how Google, the search engine, invades our privacy. You can watch the document again below:

 

 

 

 

Here is what we said about it:

 

The document is an awareness campaign. It intends to make people realize that Google is building an empire with our personal information.
The search engine tracks our data (données) for 18 months and keeps them to sell them to advertising companies.
It doesn't really weigh in the pros and cons of the company but tries to warn us.
There are indeed some privacy concerns (cf. google maps where you can see the inside of your home sometimes).

Google knows everything about you, and is used by nearly everyone, every where in the world.

It is a "hungry beast".

 

Then we continued working on the new text entitled "Guns". Here is what we said about it:

 

Who - where - when - what

The scene takes place in Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland (Ulster), more precisely in Brian's bedroom. Brian and Kevin are meeting in his bedroom because Brian wants to show him the rifle and ammunition he has.
The scene probably takes place in the late 1960's just before the period of "The Troubles".
The boys may have met when they were both rebels against the British government or Kevin is possibly Brian's sister's boyfriend. He cares for her and is happy that she is not dead. Indeed, a few weeks ago, she almost died in a bombing but she survived.

At first, Brian is showing the weapons he has in his hiding place (underneath the bed).


HW: learn your lesson and new vocabulary = be able to present the text.

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