ENGLISH PR GRAM DIGSPES JURISPRUDENCE AND POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2017 PAGE 1
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WHAT DO THESE PICTURES SHOW? PAGE 3
WHAT IS BLACK FRIDAY? WHERE DID IT BEGIN? WHEN DID IT COME TO ITALY? HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BLACK FRIDAY DEALS? PAGE 4
LISTENING BLACK FRIDAY.MP3 STORMING THE MALLS LISTENING Complete the spaces with phrasal verbs or collocations. PAGE 5
TAPESCRIPT STORMING THE MALLS NEWSREADER Americans competing for deals. This image when the clock struck midnight Macy s here in mid-town Manhattan, 11,000 customers waiting in the middle of the night at that one store alone. And across the country, throughout the day today, along with the customers the security guards trying to keep the peace and they were needed. Look at this, just one of the flare ups, two customers right here getting into a fight in a parking lot, a guard pulling one off the other. And when you widen out you see other customers right there in the crowd taking pictures with their cell phones. What happened to the holiday spirit? ABC s John Schriffen live tonight in Columbia Circle and Don you ve got it all for us. Good evening. PAGE 6
TAPESCRIPT STORMING THE MALLS JOHN David good evening, all day from shoppers we ve been seeing the good, the bad and the what were you thinking? When it comes to a discount you might not believe what some people are willing to fight for! Here we go REPORTER At midnight when the gate went up the crowd poured into this Victoria Secret in Tulsa. All for this!! A pink shiny gift bag filled with perfume and lotions. One of the deals that had Black Friday shoppers in a frenzy, from a scramble for DVDs at Walmart in San Diego to this rush On a Forever Twenty One. PAGE 7
TAPESCRIPT STORMING THE MALLS Please fall back. People are going to get hurt. (Person shouting.) REPORTER Massachusetts a toddler loaded into an ambulance after he was left in a parked car 1:30 in the morning while his caretaker went shopping at K-Mart. And San Antonio, Texas, a man tried to punch his way to the front of the line at a Sears prompting another man to pull a gun. The Los Angeles police department deployed hundreds of extra officers and even handed out shopping safety tips in local malls. CAPT MINSAL So far so good for the city of LA, we have had a stronger presence, so people can be out there and enjoy the day. PAGE 8
TAPESCRIPT STORMING THE MALLS REPORTER And many shoppers today got just what they came for. SHOPPER We got boots, we got shoes, we got appliances, we got luggage, REPORTER Still despite the throngs, this year more people chose to shop from home. E-commerce sales are up 17%, a quarter of those purchases made on smartphones and tablets. The National Retail Federation is predicting a booming holiday 586 billion in sales, up 4% from last year. PAGE 9
TAPESCRIPT STORMING THE MALLS JOHN And most of the Black Friday discounts will last through the weekend but many retailers are already looking ahead to Cyber Monday, which brings a whole new set of online discounts, now you can prepare and plan ahead for that as well. Many of the top retailers like BESTBUY and AMAZON are already offering previews on their websites right now. PAGE 10
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CONSIDER THIS INFORMATION HOW DO YOU THINK BLACK FRIDAY CONTRIBUTES TO THIS PHENOMENON? PAGE 12
"Today, humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet." Fawzi Ibrahim CAPITALISM: An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. DOES IT HAVE TO BE SO POLARISED? PAGE 13
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