BLACK FRIDAY Γ Προχωρημένοι

A quick webquest for you:

Use the Web to answer the following questions in your notebook:
1. What is Thanksgiving?
2. When is it celebrated?
3. Where is it celebrated?
4. How is it celebrated?

• What do people eat?
• What do they do in the morning?
• What do they do in the afternoon?
• What do they do in the evening?

GAP FILL

One of the (1) ____________ shopping days of the year has brought out millions of (2) ____________ hunters across the world. The day is called Black Friday. Real and online stores offer (3) ____________ of up to 70 per cent on thousands of items. It is traditionally a big shopping day in the USA, but four years ago it (4) ____________ the Atlantic and is now (5) ____________ in the U.K. It has become so popular in Britain that police had to be called to four supermarkets (6) ____________ after midnight on Friday (the bargains went on sale at one minute past midnight). Police were worried about shoppers getting (7) ____________ in the crowds. A police spokesman said: "Officers have worked with store staff to ensure that sale-goers were able to enter and exit the stores (8) ____________."		discounts just bargain crossed safely biggest crushed huge
While shoppers in the U.K. were happy to (9) ____________ to the shops, many store workers in the USA were angry. Many stores decided to start Black Friday a day (10) ____________, which was on the US celebration of Thanksgiving. Store employees and shoppers thought it was (11) ____________ for stores to ask employees to work on Thanksgiving, which is traditionally a time for people to (12) ____________ with their family. A 'Boycott Black Thursday' Facebook page has more than 114,000 (13) ____________. Many big stores, such as Costco and IKEA, did not open. CNN reports that there are over 60 (14) ____________ on the website Change.org trying to get (15) ____________ and customers to change Black Friday. They want a bigger focus on family instead of (16) ____________.		wrong petitions head early profits likes stores spend

BEFORE READING 

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if  a-h  below are true (T) or false (F).

a.	One billion people went shopping on Black Friday.	T / F
b.	Stores offer discounts of up to 70% off thousands of products.	T / F
c.	Police went to supermarkets in England to stop people being crushed.	T / F
d.	Police said store staff refused to help them.	T / F
e.	Shoppers in England and staff in the USA were not happy.	T / F
f.	The US holiday of Thanksgiving is the day before Black Friday.	T / F
g.	An anti-Black Thursday Facebook page has over 100,000 likes.	T / F
h.	There are more than 600 online for Black Friday to change.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1.	offer	a.	set out for
2.	items	b.	normally
3.	huge	c.	products
4.	crushed	d.	use
5.	ensure	e.	squashed
6.	head to	f.	concentrate
7.	workers	g.	give
8.	traditionally	h.	employees
9.	spend	i.	enormous
10.	focus	j.	make certain