THE 2024 US ELECTIONS

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COMMUNICATION

CULTURE

Compléter une biographie et poser des questions En groupes présenter son programme en tant que président.

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L'accent du mot, les mots porteurs de sens, l'intonation des WH QUESTIONS .

Comprendre les éléments essentiels d'un texte ou de vidéos sur les élections, les fonctions du Président, les éléments biographiques

L'obligation , le relatif WHOSE, les pronoms interrogatifs

Les élections, les conditions pour être candidat, les qualités et obligations du Président, les Partis Politiques le système électoral, la biographie.

Le système électoral américain , le suffrage indirect / ouverture sur certains repères culturels ( MONT RUSHMORE)

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PHONOLOGIE

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THE 2024 US ELECTIONS : OBJECTIFS / PARCOURS CITOYEN VERS B1

• every four year since the president's term lasts four years.
• on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November

• It is not a national holiday.
• This year, the election occurs on NOVEMBER 5TH.
• They are very important

They take place :

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THE ELECTIONS :

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• After JOE BIDEN's resignation, there was a new democratic candidate whose name is KAMALA HARRIS. She was BIDEN's vice president.

• The other candidate is DONALD TRUMP and he is Republican.He used to be the 45th president succeeding BARAK OBAMA from 2017 to 2021.

• The Democrats are the liberal political party working for civil rights,better social safety measures and climate change.

• The Republicans are the conservative political party also called the Great Old Party which is mainly focused on lowering ( diminishing ) taxes, reducing the governement size , maintaining gun rights and restricting measures on abortion and immigration.

THE CANDIDATES

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• The two political parties chose ANIMALS in order to promote their ideas

• The DONKEY was chosen by the Democrats for it stands for ( illustrates ) perseverance,loyalty and courage in 1880.

• The ELEPHANT was officially chosen by the Republicans insofar as it embodies ( incarnates) strength and power in 1874.

THE symbolsTHE PARTIES MASCOTS

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THE president of the usa (POTUS)

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• The president is the leader of the country.
• He serves two terms maximum of four years each.
• After his election, he starts working in JANUARY only.Indeed there is a transition period of two months between presidents.
• He lives and works in THE WHITE HOUSE which is located in WASHINGTON D.C ( District of Columbia )

THE president of the usa (POTUS)

• Must be aged over 35 years old.
• Must be a natural-born citizen.
• Must have lived in the US for 14 years.

conditIONS TO RUN AS A PRESIDENT

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• He earns up to 400,000 dollars a year and 50,000 dollars for living expenses.
• He works seven days a week.
• He is guarded 24 hours a day.

THE president of the usa (POTUS)

Has to :

• be able to make good decisions.
• work with international leaders.
• be able to resolve conflicts.
• communicate well with the public.
• be able to be a very good leader.

SKILLS

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THE president of the usa (POTUS)

Has to :

• command US armed forces.
• appoint governement officials.
• sign bills ( traités) into laws.
• conduct foreign relationships.
• issue executive orders.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

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THE president of the usa (POTUS)

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• The Americans over 18 years old vote for their president and his or her vice-president.

• HOWEVER, THEY DO NOT DIRECTLY ELECT THEM .
• All the Americans vote for 538 senators and representatives who make up the ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
• This Electoral College elects the president.
• The president must obtain 270 votes so as to be elected. As a result, the candidate is not elected because he nationally gets many votes but because he gets many votes from the Electoral College.
• During the campaign, swing states are really important !

THE voteINDIRECT VOTING / SUFFRAGE

THE DIFFERENT STEPS

4.ELECTORAL COLLEGEThese electors vote for the new President.The candidate becomes the new President when he gets ( obtains ) 270 votes and more . He and the vice-président are inaugurated in January.

3.GENERAL ELECTIONS :People in every state vote for GENERAL ELECTORS .Their number equals the number of senators in each state and representatives in Congress .There are 538 ELECTORS and they form the ELECTORAL COLLEGE

2.NATIONAL CONVENTIONS : the presidential candidate chooses the vice presidential candidate and he campaigns throughout the country to get/ obtain support .

1.PRIMARIES OR CAUCUSES: party members select the ideal candidate to represent the party ( Democrat or Republican ) .He is the NOMINEE.

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The number of votes is not crucial because most states traditionally vote the same way . The red states are Republican whereas the blue states are Democrat. It all depends on the SWING STATES ( les Etats indécis ) which can vote for Democrats or for Republicans ; they can change from one election to another.

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WHO IS SHE ?

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FOCUS ON kamala harris

Kamala HARRIS was born on October 20, 1964, Oakland,California. Her parents led an important role as students in the Civil Rights Movement;her father was Jamaican and her mother Indian.They got married in 1963 and divorced in 1972. Kamala HARRIS has one sister . She got married with Douglas Emhoff in 2014 . She has no children but she is the step-mother of two children. She studied political science and economics at Howard University, a historically Black college.After graduating from Howard in 1986, Harris earned a law degree (1989) from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings College). She worked as a district attorney before becoming attorney general of California and the first woman and the first Black American to hold / have the post.When she took office in January 2017 in the Senate, Harris became the first Indian American and only the second Black American woman , after campaigning for immigration and criminal-justice reform, an increase in the minimum wage ( salary ), and protection of women’s reproductive rights. She also served on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Judiciary Committee. She became the first Black woman to be elected Joe BIDEN'S vice president of the United States in NOVEMBER 2020. She became the first Black woman and the first Asian American in U.S. history to win the presidential nomination of a major party in 2024.

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FOCUS ON kamala harris

He turned to politics in 1999 .In 2008, he even played in a Reality show called THE APPRENTICE.In 2015, he announced he would run up for the 2016 electoral campaign.He ran for the republicans and he won, becoming the 45th President, after Barak Obama.

Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York. His father was a wealthy ( rich ) real-estate developer (agent immobilier) and his mother was a housewife. Trump has four siblings .He got married three times and has five children. At the age of 13, he integrated the New York Military where he became an athlete and a student leader.After graduating, he joined Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce because he wanted to study economics. After graduation, Trump returned to New York City in order to work for his father’s real-estate business. In 1971 he became president of a collection of family-owned businesses, which he later named the Trump Organization.He grew extremely rich.

BIOGRAPHY

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FOCUS ON DONALD TRUMPnicknamed the donald.

FAMOUS PRESIDENTS

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2025 PREDICTIONSWHAT AMERICANS PREDICT WILL HAPPEN

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