Online Class Notes (Lily) [S/R]

Vocabulary

1. incident (an event that people know about)
ex: this is the biggest incident in America, everyone is talking about it.

2. tear gas : (a thing that hurts the eyes, and police use to stop people)
ex: policemen use tear gas to stop the angry people.

3. plastic bullet : (a piece of plastic that a gun shoots and that hurts a person).
ex: The police use the plastic bullet to stop the angry people.
ex: when you are hit by the plastic bullet, it won’t kill you.

In this video, MB wants to buy a cake because he hasn’t any cake at home. So he goes to the bakery, but when he arrives at the bakery, he forgot his money, then he takes bank card to take money. He goes to the ATM but his password is not correct, so MB is very angry.

Revised

In this video, MB wants to buy a cake because he doesn’t have any cakes at home. So he goes to the bakery, but when he arrives at the bakery, he forgets to bring his money, then he uses his credit card/ debit card to take money. He goes to the ATM but his password is not correct, so MB is very angry.

Police in Minneapolis, US, stop a black man. They make the man lie on the ground. One officer puts his knee on the man´s neck. The man says that he cannot breathe.

However, the officer keeps his knee on the man´s neck for seven minutes. The man stops talking. An ambulance takes the man to hospital. Doctors say that the man is dead.

The four police officers lose their job. However, people are not happy. People say that the officer kills the man.

Similar incidents happen in the past. People in Minneapolis get very angry. They start to protest before a police station. People set fire to stores. People take things from stores. The police must use tear gas and plastic bullets to stop the protesters.