Black Friday

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3,4

Please sit down and

put your closed laptop on your table.

Lesson starts when the timer stops!

Today

- Discuss the test

- BBC Newsround

- Black Friday

Lesson goal:  You know what black friday is and can discuss about spending habits

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Black Friday

Have you taken advantage of a Black Friday deal this year?

You bet, I'm a shopaholic!

Yes, once or twice

Not yet, but I'm planning to

Definitely not!

For those of you who have bought something, what kind of thing did you buy?

Electronics

Music

Food

Fashion- clothes

Fashion - accessories

Tickets for something

Miscellaneous

Where does the name 'Black Friday' come from? - Answer in English please!

Black Friday begins the day after which holiday?

1. Memorial Day
2. Christmas
3. Halloween
4. Thanksgiving

The term Black Friday originated from which U.S. city?

1. Miami
2. Los Angeles
3. New York
4. Philadelphia

Police officers in Philadelphia were first to link Black Friday to the post-Thanksgiving period in the 1950s. Large crowds of tourists and shoppers came to the city the day after Thanksgiving for the Army-Navy football game, creating chaos, traffic jams and shoplifting opportunities. Police officers in the city weren't able to take the day off work and instead had to work long shifts to control the carnage, coining the phrase Black Friday to refer to it.

Why is Black Friday black?

1. Retailers become profitable
2. Shoppers end up black and blue
3. from debit (red) and credit (black)
4. it means disaster and has been used in history before, in different situations

Black Friday represents the point in the year when retailers begin to turn a profit, thus going from being "in the red" to being "in the black"

What do you think of the modern Black Friday phenomenon and why? Answers in English please!

According to the video, what happened to a 34-year old man who got trampled?

1. she was injured
2. she died
3. she fainted
4. she was helped by fellow-shoppers

What percentage of Black Friday shoppers later regret their purchases?

1. 52%
2. 63%
3. 32%
4. 19%

What is the going rate for hiring someone to wait in line for you on Black Friday?

1. 20$/hour
2. 35$/hour
3. 50$/hour
4. 15$/hour

What is cyber Monday?

What is Cyber Monday?

1. shopping in space
2. the Monday before thanksgiving
3. online purchases are cheaper than normal
4. shopping in stores after black friday

What year did the term Black Friday first appear in The New York Times?

1. 1965
2. 1995
3. 1975
4. 1985

Which country has the biggest online sales on a particular sales day?

Black Friday: write 150 words and include a picture. Upload to showbie

1) Choose a product that you would like to have (latest phone, new shoes)

2) Describe why you want to buy this product (what are you going to use it for, the way it looks, other people have it)

3) Describe what the advertisement looks like and what you like about it. 

Discussion

What will you do on Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day this year? 

Do you agree that people

buy things they don’t need and can’t afford?