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17 septembre, 2025
3 GIRAUD: talk about the video!
In the USA, fourteen and fifteen-year-old teenagers can work.
They can work in the weekends, during the summer holidays and in their free time.
During the school year, they can work three hours a day and eighteen hours a week but they can’t work after seven pm.
During the holidays, they can work eight hours a day and forty hours a week.
They can work as pizza delivery boys, waiters, waitresses, babysitters, car cleaners, dog walkers or gardeners.
Vocabulary :
During: pendant
3 hours a day: trois heures par jour
After : après
Free time: du temps libre
Waiter: serveur
Waitress : serveuse
Gardener: jardinier
Delivery boy: livreur
Work as: travailler en tant que
Idioms (rituals)
1-It’s raining cats and dogs: il pleut des cordes
5 DUBLIN: exercises!
Vocabulary
Short: court
Shorts : un short
Trousers: un pantalon
Glasses: des lunettes
Jumper : pull(over)
Mouth: bouche
Nose: nez
Pointed: pointu
Round: rond
Ginger hair: des cheveux roux
16 septembre, 2025
3 PURY: the video!
Fourteen and fifteen-year-old teens can work in the USA.
During the schoolyear, they can work 3 hours a day and 18 hours a week but they can’t work after 7 pm.
During the holidays, they can work eight hours a day and forty hours a week.
For example, they can work as waiters, waitresses, dog walkers, car cleaners, pizza delivery boys, babysitters or gardeners.
Vocabulary
During: pendant
Apply (for): postuler (pour)
Too young: trop jeune
Work as: travailler en tant que/comme
For example: par exemple
Or: ou (exprimer un choix)
Tutor: tuteur / tutrice
Casheer: caissier(e)
Newspaper delivery boy: livreur de journaux
15 septembre, 2025
3 DAUDET: the video!
Teenagers between 14 and 15 years old can work in the US.
They can work on the weekends, during the holidays and in their free time.
During the schoolyear, they can work three hours a day and eighteen hours a week but they are forbidden to / can’t work after 7pm.
During the holidays, they can work eight hours a day or forty hours a week.
For example, they can work as pizza delivery boys, gardeners, babysitters, dog walkers, car cleaners, waiters or waitresses.
Vocabulary
Apply (for): postuler (pour)
During: pendant
They are foribdden to + verb: ils n’ont pas le droit de …
Too young: trop jeune
Work as: travailler en tant que