President Obama

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• political party
• do or die
• campaign
• social network

• favored
• polls
• landslide
• stick around

• tech-savvy
• vital

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Earlier this week, in cities all across America and the world, people poured into the streets to dance and celebrate the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States.

Although he was favored to win, you never know what will happen on election day. Sometimes the person who is behind in the polls wins. But Tuesday went better than expected for Obama. He won in a landslide victory.

Mason and Marni are big Obama supporters, and they’re still excited that he won.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Mason

Marni

Mason:  I can’t get the smile off my face.

Marni:  I know! It’s like a new day. I feel like the sun is up even though it’s pouring rain out. It just doesn’t matter.

Mason:  So I’m kind of hoping that the cloud of happiness sticks around for the next four or eight years.

Marni:  Right, yeah. Well, I think that there was so much…This election really did feel vital to a lot of people, whatever party affiliation you signed up with. There was a huge effort to register new voters and get out the vote, more so than, I think, in previous elections because it really did feel like a do or die situation.

Mason:  Well, and I was totally struck by the cultural influence, even on both sides, but particularly Obama just spurred this wealth of creative movement about people doing…

Marni:  Yeah.

Mason:  I’ve seen more different kinds of posters and stickers and t-shirts, just people making things to express their enthusiasm, their passion for him and for this particular election.

Marni:  He’s one of the younger presidents we’ve had in a long time, so I think there’s sort of that renewed spirit of youth in the White House and also just with younger voters. He gets pop culture more so than McCain.

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