Summer holidays, too long or too short?

Hi guys,

today we first did a quick warm up about Troy Davis's case. You can watch a report about it below:

Here is what we said about this case:

This man was executed yesterday night in the USA. He had been condemned because he had committed a crime.

Some witnesses had said that they had witnessed him do it. Many people disagreed with this execution because some witnesses said that they had lied during their testimony. There was only little evidence now.

NB: Past Perfect = bouleversement chronologique. Un fait passé antérieur vient expliquer une action + proche de nous.

Vocabulary

Some ≠ Many
To witness = to see a crime
To testify = to tell about a crime -> a testimony.
a piece of evidence = a proof 

Then we continued our lesson with the correction of your homework that many hadn't made correctly.

Words indicating anger in Ellman's speech: "disgusting", "revolting", "unacceptable"

Finally, we debated over summer holidays to see if they were too long or too short. Here is the list of drawbacks that we made against long summer holidays:

"to be written by Pascal"

HW: pour vendredi (demain), vous devez lire le texte distribué et identifier les avantages et les inconvénients qui y sont listés concernant des vacances d'été longues. Vous devrez classer ces informations dans le tableau que nous avons commencé.