World Aids Day - Dec. 1st + Dancer in the Dark - recap and follow up

Hey,

today we first warmed up with a topical issue: AIDS. I was surprised that many of you didn't know that yesterday was World Aids Day... Here is what we said about the topic:

Yesterday was Dec. 1st. It was world AIDS day. Many people didn't know about it because there was not a lot of information.
The charity and the government should make more propaganda / awareness campaigns because the virus (HIV) is still active. You can get AIDS if you have sexual intercourse with an infected person; and drug-addicts can get AIDS exchanging needles. You can't get AIDS if you French kiss someone, there in not enough HIV in saliva to get infected.

Additional vocabulary:
- public health
- health concerns
- to be sick -> sickness
- ill -> illness
- disease / a virus.  

Then we continued speaking about Dancer in the Dark and analysing the different scenes from the movie.

Here is what we said:

- a pun on words -> Gene's name is a pun on words because he has the genetic disease of his mother. He is going to be blind like his mum unless he gets an operation.

- (to) call for back-ups

- syn. "afraid":
scared to death
terrified
appalled

- lost / puzzled

- (to) pull the trigger

- goddamn -> an adjective you can use before a noun when you are angry.

HW: get ready to re-enact some parts of the scenes we have watched so far. You'll record yourself and practise on pronunciation.