Thursday November, 12th

12.11.2009

First we did a quiz about the quantifiers.

Then we did a recap of what we did last week.

What did we speak about?

We spoke about:

OVERTIME = les heures supplémentaires.

Overtime is when employees do extra work.

Overtime is when employees do long hours

Overtime is when employees work more than the normal time

Debate : The 35 hour-work week

Arguments

FOR

Arguments AGAINST

EMPLOYERS

Because employees are exhausted and don’t work as well they would if they worked less.

Their charges are higher.

EMPLOYEES

Employees have more time for their families, for their leisure.

It allows them to fight against unemployment by hiring more people to share wealth.

They have to work more quickly and more efficiently.

Consequences of long hours on employees:

Health issues

Vocabulary :

Chômage: unemployment

Embaucher: to hire

leisure : loisirs

high – low

élevé – bas

être oblige de: to have to + V

to lead to: entraîner

huge: immense

= The work-week: la semaine de travail

In France the 35 hours-work week was decided and implemented in the 1990’s by a socialist government ( Mrs Aubry)

Exercice de traduction:

1) Les employés doivent faire des heures supplémentaires.

Employees must do long hours.

Employees have to do long hours

2) Il y a de nombreuses façons de trouver du travail.

There are a lot of ways to find work.

3) L’immense augmentation des réseaux sociaux permettent aux gens de communiquer d’avantage.

The huge increase of social networks enables people to communicate more.

4) Le travail supplémentaire entraîne des problèmes de santé pour les hommes surmenés.

Long hours lead to health issues for overworked men.

Overtime leads to health issues for overworked men.

Thank you Fatou for your notes

Homework for Thursday, November 19^th

Vocabulary quiz. Learn all the words seen in lessons for quiz… See blog

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