Gun culture
Is there a solution to gun violence?
Yet another episode of school shooting has recently hit the American news.
Let us take a look at how representative it is of the gun issue in the United States.
Final task
After a 25-year-old psychotic man has gone on a shooting rampage which claimed three lives on a university campus a few days before, Congressmen and women discuss a way to limit these kinds of killing. The killer owned three machine guns that he had bought at a gun show and online.
You are a pro gun control Representative or a pro gun Senator. Discuss
Background knowledge: reading list
A case in point: Michigan 2021
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3 killed, 8 injured in shooting at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit
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Parents of Michigan school shooting suspect are held on $500,000 bond after manhunt, NPR
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Bond set at $500,000 each for Michigan school shooting suspect’s parents after capture, L.A.Times
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Michigan school shooting: Suspect's parents deny involuntary manslaughter, BBC news
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Background knowledge: exercises
The Second Amendment
Government in the USA
2e partie
The right to bear arms
The weight of the Supreme Court
A timeline of gun laws
Some method
Read the document below about the synthesis and the commentary and highlight the most important points for you.
Prepare to recap the method orally.
Oral practice
Pronunciation
Giving a speech: an example
- underline the stressed syllables
- circle the stressed words
- write a rising arrow when her voice goes up, a falling arrow when her voice goes down
on the following transcript:
"It is a great pleasure for me to welcome Jim Johnson, here to Austin, Texas.
Going further
Understanding bail
More charts on gun violence in the USA