Thursday, January 21st

 We first read the text and worked on it : All the rage since Reagan and corrected Part 1

Vocabulaire :

Nationwide: all over the nation, all over the country

Worldwide: all over the world

www: world wide web

100: a hundred, one hundred

1,000: one thousand

10,000: ten thousand

100,000: one hundred thousand

100,000,000: one hundred million

1,000,000,000: one billon

To wear, wore, worn: porter (un vêtement, des chaussures)

Because the sneakers were worn by rappers

                                  ont été portés par

to look like: ressembler à

    ex: Some teenagers want to look like rappers

Nike releases a new model every  2 months.

Nike keeps supplies tight so as to make the teenagers really want AF1.

The advertising is done by word of mouth.                                           (=bouche à oreille)

Correction Document 6

Part 1

1/ success of an old Nike sneaker today

2/a.no

   b. Where? In USA ; What ? Nike’s AF1; Who? Nike

3/a.Nike

   b.AF1

   c.1982

   d. R. Reagan

   e. one billion dollars

   f. Every 2 month

   g.350,000 to 500,000

4/a.Nike’s sneaker

   b. no

   c. yes

   d. yes

Part 2

1/a - 1980;1982

-          25; 1 billion

-          2; 350,000 ; 500,000 ; 25; 30

-          48,50 ; 12

2/a. The first AF1 was introduced in the early 1980’s

Thank you Cindy for your notes.

Homework for Thursday, January 28^th

Learn and file the lesson.

On Wednesday, January 27^th from 1 to 2, you’ll have a vocabulary quiz on the words you learnt on the 14^th and 21st